Elderly adults are faced with many unique health challenges during disasters and public health emergencies. The healthcare system can mitigate the risks to vulnerable elders by recognizing the variations in the environment in which they live and receive care and the likelihood of financial and social isolation and creating disaster medical care plans that address these issues. Healthcare provid...

The existing literature in crisis management mostly addresses specific measures taken in dealing with a single disaster. However, with chaotic nature of disasters and the uncertainty that surrounds them, the understanding of how to achieve effectiveness in crisis management remains limited. This article investigates that how government apply various capabilities in the crisis management process...

Natural disasters with minimal human mortality rarely capture headlines but occur frequently and result in significant morbidity and economic loss. We compared the epidemic activity observed after a flood, an earthquake, and volcanic activity in Peru. Following post-disaster guidelines, healthcare facilities and evacuation centers surveyed 10-12 significant health conditions for ~45 days and co...

The South East Asian Tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina in the United States were natural disasters of different origin but of similar destruction and response. Both disasters exhibited synonymous health outcomes and similar structural damage from large surges of water, waves, and flooding. A systematic discussion and comparison of the disasters in Thailand and the Gulf Coast considers b...

Taiwan is affected by three primary types of natural disaster: typhoons, earthquakes, and floods. Natural disasters in Taiwan can cause human causalities and loss of housing. Therefore, a method for evaluating the severity of losses caused by natural disasters would be beneficial for disaster management institutes in Taiwan when developing further supply chain management (SCM) strategies. To ev...

Tools such as Twitter and Facebook now allow rapid, large-scale message retransmission, the impact of which can be either helpful or harmful in disasters. To provide insights for industries on facilitating the spread of high-quality messages in evolving disasters, this paper seeks to outline a “context-specific” theory to identify ITenabled message cues and human perceptions that affect online ...

Recently, the world has witnessed the increasing occurrence of disasters, some of natural origin and others caused by man. The intensity of the phenomenon that cause such disasters, the frequency in which they occur, the number of people affected and the material damage caused by them have been growing substantially. Disasters are defined as natural, technological, and human-initiated events th...