1.1 Motivations In modern technological societies, disasters, accidents, calamities or catastrophes have more and more large range, are always more frequently caused by human-made modifications of the humankind habitat, and, in consequence, may lead to various hardly recoverable losses, and represents the risk level not acceptable by public opinion. Nowdays, many serious disasters are complex, ...

OBJECTIVE This paper assessed the emergency preparedness programs of health facilities for all-risks but focused on Road Traffic Accidents, (RTA) resulting in surge demand. It adopted W. H. O checklist covering hospital preparedness, equipment, manpower and surge capacity planning as best practices for the mitigation of public health emergencies. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study of purp...

Kenya's major incidents profile is dominated by droughts, floods, fires, terrorism, poisoning, collapsed buildings, accidents in the transport sector and disease/epidemics. With no integrated emergency services and a lack of resources, many incidents in Kenya escalate to such an extent that they become major incidents. Lack of specific training of emergency services personnel to respond to majo...

The paper outlines HARIA-2 methodology set up for external emergency planning, analysis and response, taking into account not only the physical phenomena but also the sociological aspects of the emergency. This is the main characteristic of the research project. The methodology is transferred to a software package which allows a fast simulation of various accident scenarios. It can be used also...

Results 78 paediatric and 74 adult cases were reported. Two deaths occurred. Personnel and emergency centres involved in the management were known in 147 cases, and treatment in 136 cases. First-aid was provided at home by patients themselves on 43 occasions or by the family physician 12 times. 49 called for an ambulance. 89 required hospitalisation in an Emergency Department. Epinephrine auto-...

up to 150 words): Safe egress is one of the key design issues identified by facility planners, managers and inspectors. Current computational tools for the simulation and design of emergency egress rely heavily on assumptions about human individual and social behaviors, which have been found to be oversimplified, inconsistent and even incorrect. This research aims to develop a framework for mod...

Knowledge management encompasses a wide range of disciplines. Most organizations face difficult challenges in managing knowledge for emergency response, but it is crucial for response effectiveness that such challenges be overcome. Organizational members must share the knowledge needed to plan for emergencies. They also must be able during an emergency to access relevant plans and communicate a...

What will be said about how we solved this housing crisis in 50 years time? Mónica Bustos reflects on the Emergency Housing Plan, looking back at a history of deficit and challenges posed by various government plans designed to address it.

the present study aimed to examine the determinants of using alternative treatment plans in different types of problems by different educated professionals to facilitate in formulating the appropriate marketing strategies of the most important emergency product- medicare service providers. this paper attempted to find out the attitudes and behavior of educated professionals in adopting differen...

OBJECTIVE Environmental emergencies and disasters are becoming more frequent in developing nations. Between 1992 and 1996, disasters affected an annual average of 4.5 million Oceania residents. Unfortunately, public health planners in the region and responders throughout the world have little evidence on which to base measures of emergency preparedness. Indicators of preparedness must be identi...