Effective lesson learning should reduce the risk of future disasters through well-informed mitigation and preparedness planning. Ensuring the availability and accessibility of accurate and reliable disaster risk information when required entails an efficient system for knowledge sharing. In this regard, an efficient disaster risk management knowledge system is important. This paper highlights t...

Introduction: Early education and training are mandatory toraise the knowledge and awareness of the healthcare staff. Iranis a disaster prone area with a high number of emergencies.This study aimed to assess the need for disaster and emergencymanagement education for Iranian medical students.Methods: Using two-round Delphi technique in 2017, 15 expertswithin the field of disaster and emergency ...

With the development of social networks, the mechanism of crowdsourcing is not limited to commercial application. In the event of disaster, information disseminated through social networks, and the mechanism of crowdsourcing thus is established. However, it is worth discussing whether the accuracy of the disaster information through the virtual community can be referred to the government agenci...

The landmark Humanitarian Response Review, commissioned by the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator in 2005, has catalyzed recent reforms in disaster response through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. These reforms include a "cluster lead" approach to sectoral responsibilities and the strengthening of humanitarian coordination. Clinical medicine, public health, and disaster incident m...

Information technology (IT) has become strongly established as a supporting tool for many professional tasks in recent years. A knowledge management system can undertake intelligent tasks in a specific domain that is normally performed by highly skilled people. Typically, the success of such a system relies on the ability to represent the knowledge for a particular subject. Post-disaster recons...

Disaster recovery and response require a timely coordination of the emergency services. IT-technology provides a tremendous potential to increase efficiency and effectiveness in this area by propagating information efficiently to all the right locations. In this paper we sketch requirements and describe challenges for an integrated disaster management communication and information system, addre...

Disaster management utilizes diverse technologies to accomplish a complex set of tasks. Despite a decade of experience, few published reports have reviewed application of telemedicine (clinical care at a distance enabled by telecommunication) in disaster situations. Appropriate new telemedicine applications can improve future disaster medicine outcomes, based on lessons learned from a decade of...

Model integration is one of the most important and widely researched areas in the model management of Decision Support Systems (DSS). In current disaster management applications, independent DSS models handle specific decision-making needs but there are many advantages in combining these models. Therefore, there is a need for the selection and integration of such models. Previously, we presente...

The increasing number of natural and man-made disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, traffic accidents, has demonstrated the importance of disaster management. Disaster management is complex; it involves many actors and large amount of information. It is important to understand the interrelations between the DM components – tasks, processes – and the responsible parties – actors, sectors – a...

Effective disaster management is a core feature for the protection of communities against natural disasters such as floods. Disaster management organizations (DMOs) are expected to contribute to ensuring this protection. However, what happens when their resources to cope with a flood are at stake or the intensity and frequency of the event exceeds their capacities? Many cities in the Free State...