An earthquake was happened on 23 October 2011 in Van, Turkey (Mw7.2) at the eastern most area of Anatolian plateau and in the neighborhood of Iranian border (West Azerbaijan Province). The study was performed based on field and office observations and has been focused on the process of disaster management in Turkey after the 23 October 2011 earthquake. We surveyed the quake from the view point ...

This study examined the extent of children's and adolescents' psychosocial maladjustment associated with a natural disaster, namely, wildfire. The course of psychopathology was assessed six weeks after a major wildfire destroyed 420 homes. Victims' functioning relative to a comparison group from the same community, matched for age, gender, socioeconomic status, and fire insurance was examined. ...

Natural, technological and man-made disasters are typically followed by chaos that results from an inadequate overall response. Three separate levels of coordination are addressed in the mitigation and preparedness phase of disaster management where environmental conditions are slowly changing: (1) communication and transportation infrastructure, (2) monitoring and assessment tools, (3) collabo...

of vulnerability. Recent events in Europe suggest that this statement may be especially true of the lethal meteorological events known as heat waves. Estimates indicate that as many as 35,000 Europeans died as a result of the roughly two-week period of unusually high temperatures in August 2003, with evidence suggesting that the victims were largely elderly (Hémon and Jougla 2003). The United S...


 This research aims to classify disaster-prone areas in Jember Regency based on index indicators 31 sub-districts Regency. The 6 used this study are the number of disaster events, victims killed, injured victims, damaged houses, amount damage infrastructure and population density. clustering method is K-Means Clustering method. considered quite effective efficient for grouping large amoun...

Abstract This study estimated the effect of receiving help during a disaster on an individual’s subsequent cooperation for common-pool resource. Such chain altruism is called generalized exchange and upstream indirect reciprocity in theories. Theoretical studies have pointed out its importance understanding human society. Some researchers observed phenomenon “disaster area relay”, where victims...

Violence toward mental health staff has been receiving national attention in the face of diminishing resources to treat what appears to be an increasingly violent patient population. Assaults by psychiatric patients against mental health care providers are both a reality and a concern, as the effects of violence can be devastating to the victim. Some staff rationalize that violence is an occupa...

Just after midnight on the 28th of September 1994, the Estonian-flagged ro-ro passenger ferry MV Estonia was shipwrecked on its route between Tallinn and Stockholm. Out of about 1000 persons on board only 137 survived. This paper describes the work that the Psychiatric Clinic at Ersta Hospital performed with the relatives of the MV Estonia victims after the disaster, in addition, we present dat...

Floods are the most common natural disaster that occurs in Malaysia, especially during monsoon season. Emergency shelter is provided immediately to provide a safe and secure place for victims stay after disaster. The typical emergency by government an indoor modular. However, victims’ privacy safety cannot be ensured, feel uncomfortable. Hence, better easy assemble, dismantled, light, strong sh...

Blood was available for the estimation of carboxyhemoglobin saturation (COHb) in 30 of the 173 persons who died in the Victorian bushfires in February 2009. The ages of these 30 deaths ranged from 3 to 80 years and there were 8 females. 13 cases (43%) were considered negative (less than 5% COHb), 12 (40%) were between 5 and 40% COHb, 2 (6.7%) between 40 and 50% and 3 (10%) were greater than 50%...