Social media becomes a communicating channel during a natural disaster for detecting disaster events because people share their opinions, feelings, activity during the disaster through the Twitter. Twitter is not simply a platform for broadcasting information, but one of informational interaction. So, we use this platform for mining various disaster relevant tweets during a natural disaster. We...

Disaster drill training is an important part of to all nurses in order prepare function effectively during real disaster. Nurses should understand the importance disaster nursing will make them enables take stages process related management. This study aims assess current status and identify nurses’ knowledge practice for how they acquired their about preparation KPJ Puteri Specialist Hospital....

Introduction: In Tohoku, the northeastern part of main island Japan, students entered medical school following Great East Japan earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011. Such wished to volunteer at time disaster, however, undergraduate curriculum was inadequate enable practice disaster medicine. Thus, Tohoku Disaster Medical Assistance Student (DMAS) holds workshops for acquire medicine knowl...

Taiwan is located at the high-risk region of natural disasters with the frequently occurred earthquakes. The importance of the disaster prevention education on campus is made even more obvious by the fact that natural disasters often occur during the school days. Given the leading roles the school administrators and teachers playing in the disaster prevention education of their pupils, this stu...

the huge earthquake in 11 march 2012 which followed by a destructive tsunami in japan was largest recorded earthquake in the history. japan is pioneer in disaster management, especially earthquakes. how this developed country faced this disaster, which had significant worldwide effects? the humanitarian behavior of the japanese people amazingly wondered the word's media, meanwhile the managemen...

conclusions according to the findings of the present study, more attention should be paid to the mission and vision of the organizations in disaster preparedness. to improve the disaster preparedness measures, more emphasis should be placed on other disaster preparedness strategies such as response mechanisms and information systems. methods this was a qualitative research, which utilized conte...

Following the Great East Japan earthquake (the Big Quake) that hit the northeastern parts of Japan on March 11, 2011, aid was dispatched from multiple levels of organizations including the Japanese Nurses Association (JNA). Evidence indicates that the JNA did not play an effective role in the aid efforts, since the professional organization had pulled out and stopped sending nursing personnel f...