Introduction: Japan is one of the most disaster-prone countries in world. The government has traditionally taken lead during disaster responses, but now NGOs have begun to play an active role response. Peace Winds (PWJ), first Japanese utilize medical teams, search-and-rescue dogs, and response conjunction with another. presentation will be focused on operations lessons learned. Method: Initial...

Research suggests that a donor country’s decision to provide post-disaster assistance is not only driven by the severity of a disaster and the resulting humanitarian needs in the recipient country but also by strategic considerations. We argue that the identification of the determinants of the size of disaster assistance is a first step in the analysis of the donor’s behavior. Since all aid is ...

The Singapore Humanitarian Assistance Support Group deployed a team of 32 medical relief workers to Meulaboh, Indonesia to provide medical assistance for victims of the 26 December earthquake and tsunami disaster. The team was deployed at a primary healthcare clinic at an internally displaced persons' (IDP) camp and at the sole hospital's emergency and surgical departments. The team saw a total...

This paper discusses the applicability of Cooperating Smart Spaces in the disaster management realm and their potential to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of rescue relief teams. The Cooperating Smart Space is a novel concept that combines and extends pervasive computing and social computing to support smart space management and community collaboration. Based on an analysis of current...

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) is a culmination of several individuals that include rescue teams, recovery teams, forensic pathologists, odontologists and anthropologists. All these personnel work collaboratively to bring together their respective fields to identifying victims in a disaster. Factors needing consideration after a disaster include the number of victims, condition of remains...

Hajj, a unique yearly mass gathering pilgrimage of more than 2 million Muslims from around the world, presents enormous challenges to the Saudian Arabia government.1 The potential for deadly epidemic outbreaks of bacterial and viral diseases leading to upper respiratory infection and meningitis and human stampedes call for prompt attention from both pilgrims and the ministry of healt...