The importance of emergency response systems cannot be overemphasized today due to the many manmade and natural disasters in the recent years such as September 2001 and the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster. The overall cost of the Japan disaster alone is estimated to have exceeded 300 billion USD. Transportation and telecommunications play a critical role in disaster response and ma...

Disaster preparedness has been recognized as a central element in reducing the impact of disasters worldwide. The usual methods of preparedness, such as pre-positioning relief inventory in countries prone to disasters, are problematic because they require high investment in various locations, due to the uncertainty about the timing and location of the next disaster. Investing in disaster manage...

OBJECTIVE To assess the preparedness of health workers in St James, Jamaica, to respond to natural disasters. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted on a 25% quota sample of hospital and health department staff in St James in 2005 (n = 307). Awareness of and attitudes to disaster management policies, plans and training and how these influenced their response in Hurricane Ivan were eva...

This article presents evolutionary computation approach for increasing connectivity in disaster scenario. An effective disaster management requires rapid coordination of existing resources. At time of disaster, it becomes difficult to maintain Connectivity. Connectivity is considered to be of critical importance in disaster scenarios due to constrained and mobile conditions. In this paper we pr...

A broad range of health problems are related to disasters. Insight into these health problems is needed for targeted disaster management. Disaster health outcome assessment can provide insight into the health effects of disasters. During the 15th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine in Amsterdam (2007), experts in the field of disaster epidemiology discussed important aspects of di...

Natural disasters are extreme events within the earth's system that result in death or injury to humans, and damage or loss of valuable goods, such as buildings, communication systems, agricultural land, forest, natural environment etc. The economic losses due to natural disasters have shown an increase with a factor of eight over the past four decades, caused by the increased vulnerability of ...

Background Despite the importance of an effective health system response to various disasters, relevant research is still in its infancy, especially in middle- and low-income countries. Objective This paper provides an overview of the status of disaster health management in China, with its aim to promote the effectiveness of the health response for reducing disaster-related mortality and morbid...

Natural hazards or any other man-induced hazards will become a serious disaster when they strike the man-made environments causing a huge loss to human life as well as natural resources. In order to manage emergency situations in an effective manner, it is required to define a proper disaster management system. As the disaster management depends on various types of data, information and knowled...

iran's health system is expanding the disaster and emergency higher education programs over the country to enhance the capacity of human resources for effective and efficient disaster mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. in this article we present an overview about the initiatives and progress of disaster and emergency health higher education in iran. following the bam earthquake, i...

The medical information system has been applied in hospitals widely, which makes hospitals acquire notable management benefit and economic benefit. When hospitals enjoy the quick service decision and convenient management because of informationization, they are also in the danger of data loss. Data disaster recovery is the guarantee of the hospital informationization construction, and the base ...