INTRODUCTION Increasingly, public health departments are designing and engaging in complex operations-based full-scale exercises to test multiple public health preparedness response functions. The Department of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) supplies benchmark guidelines that provide a framework for both the design and the evaluation of drills and ...

The evaluation of the quality of emergency plans is an unresolved issue. While most research efforts have focused on the definition and improvement of planning methods and the associated tools, a reference framework allowing the assessment of emergency plans is still missing. In this paper, we report our initial work towards the definition of a quality framework for emergency plan management. T...

On the basis of discussing the information spreading mechanism under Internet environment, we have studied on how to build a public opinion monitoring model according to the semantic content or text mining in recent years. A micro-blog public opinion corpus named MPO Corpus on the content of micro-blog information as a test data set has been constructed by our research team. In this paper, it p...

Multi-attribute emergency decision-making problems have the characteristics of incomplete information and shortage response time. Evidence theory can effectively express uncertain in process. However, evidence requires that condition independence is met, evaluation experts often vague. Therefore, an method based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets proposed. First, each expert gives plan. Secondly, pro...

PURPOSE It is difficult for emergency physicians to plan and execute a disaster medical response drill while conducting their daily work activities. Readily available drill preparation manuals are therefore essential, alongside assessment methods to ensure quality. Here, we propose email text analysis as a manual assessment method, and investigate its validity. METHODS The preparation status ...

Effective response planning and preparedness are critical to the health and well-being of communities in the face of biological emergencies. Response plans involving mass prophylaxis may seem feasible when considering the choice of dispensing points within a region, overall population density, and estimated traffic demands. However, the plan may fail to serve particular vulnerable subpopulation...

Natural and manmade disasters often result in the breakdown of social system and services with pronounced effects on human development and economy. They also cause illhealth and deaths either directly or through the disruption of health systems, leaving the affected communities without access to healthcare in times of emergency. Empirical evidence shows that these negative effects are dispropor...