According to the human consequences caused by emergencies and disasters, the health system especially hospitals, are among the first places that are influenced by this events. Continuity of service provision by hospitals after emergencies and disasters is one of the important issues that should be taken into consideration by all people and authorities. For hospitals, it is necessary to promote ...

The early earthquake warning (EEW) system is essential for mitigating the effects of seismic incidents. However, in China, design EEW messages has not received much attention. This study employs affordance theory to examine effectiveness message generated by Institute Care-Life (ICL) specifically investigating four aspects affordances: functional, cognitive, sensory, and emotional affordance. W...

Introduction: Considering the need for hospital disaster preparedness post-Nepal earthquake 2015, Ministry of Health and Population Nepal developed a Hospital Disaster Preparedness Response Plan (HDPRP) mass casualty management. However, until now, there is no scientific literature on how district hospitals, which are major health service providers in Nepal, implemented their HDPRP during incid...

background and objectives: during crisis, hospitals have great responsibility in saving life and protect health of the damaged individuals. fulfilling this responsibility relies on preparedness of hospital staff, particularly the clinicians to face the relevant challenges. given the lack of adequate information on the topic from iran, the present study aimed to explore the technical crisis prep...

conclusions the findings showed the moderate preparedness of the hospitals in the northern provinces to deal with disasters. case presentation this cross-sectional study was carried in 2011 and all of the hospitals which were located in the northern areas of iran were investigated through the census method. the data collection instruments were self-administered managers’ awareness questionnaire...

The possibility of a terrorist attack employing the use of chemical or biological weapons of mass destruction (WMD) on American soil is no longer an empty threat, it has become a reality. A WMD is defined as any weapon with the capacity to inflict death and destruction on such a massive scale that its very presence in the hands of hostile forces is a grievous threat. Events of the past few year...

BACKGROUND Disaster medicine education is an enormous challenge, but indispensable for disaster preparedness. AIMS We aimed to develop and implement a disaster medicine curriculum for medical student education that can serve as a peer-reviewed, structured educational guide and resource. Additionally, the process of designing, approving and implementing such a curriculum is presented. METHOD...