The Philippines frequently experiences natural disasters and occasionally man-made ones. As such, Republic Act No. 10121, also known as the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management of 2010, provides designated lead agencies to respond different stages disaster management. Despite this, government has resorted creation inter-agency task forces (IATFs) deal with these disasters. These were d...

conclusions according to the findings of the present study, more attention should be paid to the mission and vision of the organizations in disaster preparedness. to improve the disaster preparedness measures, more emphasis should be placed on other disaster preparedness strategies such as response mechanisms and information systems. methods this was a qualitative research, which utilized conte...

This paper utilizes the Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) to carry on the analysis and the predictions of the agriculture drought trend in Guangdong Province, trying to provide a reference for predictions and forecasting of the agricultural drought trend. After decomposing the anomaly signals of precipitation and undulating signals of agriculture drought condition, four IMF components were obt...

Background: The preparedness and safety of hospitals in disasters are essential to maintain the health and survival of the community. Numerous studies have shown that the level of preparedness of Iranian hospitals is moderate and low. Lack of comprehensive hospital standards for disaster preparedness is one of the reasons. This study aimed to develop hospital accreditation standards for hospita...

s: Thematic Session Disaster Psycho-Social Care and Management 1 THEMATIC SESSION E2: DISASTER PSYCHO-SOCIAL CARE MANAGEMENT Chairperson: Prof. K. Sekar National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE SURVIVORS OF DISASTERS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE K. Sekar Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore Email: [email protected] Psychosocial ...

After the devastation caused by two weeks of torrential rain in Venezuela in the second half of December 1999, it is estimated that up to 50,000 people have died in floods and landslides; a further 200,000 people have been left homeless as whole towns along the Caribbean coast have been washed away [1]. Concerned about the dramatic extent of this human tragedy, PRIVATEERS N.V. has immediately o...

Microblogging services like Twitter are an important source of real-time information during disasters and can be utilized to aid rescue, relief and rehabilitation efforts. The focus of this work is on the creation of gold standard data for automatic retrieval of helpful tweets. Using various experiments on the gold standard data prepared in the FIRE 2016 Microblog Track [3], we show that the go...

Nine years after the Kobe earthquake in Japan, social issues are still prominent, and the rehabilitation process is still ongoing. The earthquake caused two major changes in Japanese society: an increase in voluntary and non-government activities, and the enhancement of cooperation between local government and the residents' association. People's participation in the decision-making process was...