Location-based games are an emerging paradigm for training, simulation, entertainment, health and many other domains. In this paper, we consider the role of location-based games as a platform for data collection and analysis of human behavior. We also examine how human teams perform in a disaster scenario when such a scenario is mapped to a game environment conducted as a location-based augment...

When addressing terrorist threats we must give special attention to both prevention and disaster response. Enabling effective interactions between agent teams and humans for disaster response is a critical area of research, with encouraging progress in the past few years. However, previous work suffers from two key limitations: (i) limited human situational awareness, reducing human effectivene...

In Japan, community healthcare is provided under the public health insurance and the respective medical systems in accordance with local characteristics. However, when a major disaster happens, the community healthcare structure might be destroyed. One of the missions of the Japan Medical Association (JMA) is to restore healthcare in the afflicted areas under these circumstances by bringing tog...

BACKGROUND On 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan made landfalls over the center of the Philippines and devastated the region. Soon aftermath of the disaster, many foreign medical teams (FMTs) headed toward the site, and the Korean team was one of them. METHODS This study described the experiences of the team during the initial phase of response, focusing on collaborative efforts with the local m...

Introduction: During a disaster, an increase in the number of casualties requiring hospital admission is recorded. This challenge hospitals' management - there need for beds, rooms, consumables, drugs, and medical teams to support increased patients arriving. Purpose: study aims analyze awareness professionals about required procedures described contingency plan bed availability case disaster. ...

Ketika terjadi bencana alam, korban baik yang meninggal, maupun selamat membutuhkan bantuan seperti makanan, air bersih, farmasi, tenda peralatan medis, dan tenaga medis. Saat untuk layanan kesehatan (healthcare) dapat dikategorikan menjadi relief goods, barang medis service tim Healthcare dalam kondisi normal berbeda dengan healthcare bencana. atau dikenal operasi kemanusiaan (humanitarian ope...

During the May 2016 World Health Assembly of 194 member states, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the process of developing and launching emergency medical teams as a critical component of the global health workforce concept. Over 64 countries have either launched or are in the development stages of vetting accredited teams, both international and national, to provide surge support ...

The USNS Mercy, one of the two hospital ships in the United States Navy, has provided disaster relief and humanitarian assistance for multiple natural disasters around the world. As a self-sustaining 1000-bed hospital, the USNS Mercy provides a full complement of surgical and medical capabilities to care for the sick and injured in a mobile platform environment. This article describes the recen...

Following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami all roads in the affected areas in Sri Lanka were inaccessible during the immediate aftermath of the disaster either due to the damages they sustained or poor networking of roads and lack of contingency planning within the road network systems. This paper aims at proving the necessity of effective mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction during road recon...