نتایج جستجو برای: disasters

تعداد نتایج: 15143  

Journal: :Prehospital and disaster medicine 2006
Carol A Amaratunga Tracey L O'Sullivan

The psychosocial impacts of disasters are profound. In recent years, there have been too many reminders of these impacts and the dire needs of the people involved. The purpose of this article is to present the following themes from the psychosocial literature on disasters and emergency management: (1) differential impacts of disasters according to gender and age; (2) prevention efforts to reduc...

Journal: :Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita 2006
Marco Leonardi Renata Borroni Marta di Gennaro

The evolution of the veterinary role in disaster management across the last 25 years is described, with particular attention to the Italian experience. Italy has a specific organisation of veterinary services which are integrated into the civil protection system as a component of the national health service. The Italian model is compared with USA and France. In USA a major role is played by the...

2010
Lori Peek

This comprehensive overview of the literature on children and disasters argues that scholars and practitioners should more carefully consider the experiences of children themselves. As the frequency and intensity of disaster events increase around the globe, children are among those most at risk for the negative effects of disaster. Children are psychologically vulnerable and may develop post-t...

2014
Li Li Qiang Yue

Based on the precipitating factors of geological disasters in complex mountainous regions, this paper took geological disaster distribution, seismic intensity, fracture, engineering petrofabric, river distance, slope and precipitation as the risk indicators of geological disasters. Next, a mathematical model was established by using the analytical hierarchy process. The weight of above seven ri...

2011
Najmeh Jafari Armindokht Shahsanai Mehrdad Memarzadeh Amir Loghmani

Natural disasters are tragic incidents originating from atmospheric, geologic and hydrologic changes. In recent decades, millions of people have been killed by natural disasters, resulting in economic damages.Natural and complex disasters dramatically increase the mortality and morbidity due to communicable diseases. The major causes of communicable disease in disasters are categorized into fou...

2013
Md. Anwar Hossain

Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable areas to natural disasters in the world. Almost every year different types of natural disasters occur in Bangladesh and destroy many lives and resources of people. Although it is not possible to prevent the occurrence of disasters influenced by natural causes, proper plan, management and human collective participation may minimize the natural disasters o...

2007
Roshani Palliyaguru Dilanthi Amaratunga Richard Haigh

An under-sea earthquake near the west coast of Northern Sumatra set off a series of other earthquakes in December 2004 and led to a widespread disaster, Tsunami 2004. Sri Lanka faced one of the worst natural disasters with a large proportion of losses in housing and infrastructure. The developing countries are less able to face the impacts of disasters and so it is imperative to develop the inf...

Journal: :Disasters 2009
Yang Zhang Michael K Lindell Carla S Prater

Business plays important roles in community functioning. However, disaster research has been disproportionately focused on units of analysis such as families, households and government agencies. This paper synthesises the major findings within the business development research field and the disaster research field. It constructs a framework for evaluating business vulnerability to natural disas...

2012
C Ozge Karadag A Kerim Hakan

BACKGROUND Disasters may lead to ethical challenges that are different from usual medical practices. In addition, disaster situations are related with public health ethics more than medical ethics, and accordingly may require stronger effort to achieve a balance between individual and collective rights. This paper aims to review some ethical dilemmas that arise in disasters and mainly focuses o...

Journal: :SSRN Electronic Journal 2018

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