The advancement of location-based services now covers indoor location positioning. Under disaster in the building, the sufferer might faint, be wounded, or enclosed by structures in the dark. In the cases, the sufferer could not let the relief team know her position in the building. The LBS server provides location tracking or positioning of her device for quick relief. In the service UltraWide...

TOPIC This article reports on group support using Psychological First Aid during Katrina relief work. It explores this issue from personal experience and a theoretical perspective. PURPOSE Group support is useful for volunteers as well as refugees and makes it possible to deal with extraordinary events of disaster more successfully. CONCLUSIONS The use of group work with disaster and trauma...

PREPARATION: LONG-TERM RESCUE AND DISASTER-RELIEF STRATEGIES: Located only 50 miles from the Gulf Coast and Galveston, Houston, Texas, is familiar with the challenges posed by hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding. The hospitals of Houston and Harris County are no strangers to the aftermath of such natural disasters, themselves being victims of massive damage in 2001, when the entire Housto...

b a c k g r o u n d & aim: following the bam earthquake, relief teams and individual volunteers’influx in the scene. we conducted this survey to determine the needs and health status of relief workers when they were in the scene. methods  & materials:   this  was a concurrent  nested  mixed-method  survey  that  the qualitative nested   in  a  quantitative   approach.   interviews   were   thro...

Emergency preparedness suffers great challenges, because of the vast number of threats needing consideration and the limited resources to carry out the programs. In developed countries like the United States, technical disaster relief has surpassed natural disaster relief as the main focus of emergency preparedness. Compared with natural disasters, technical disasters demonstrate new characteri...

Social media is becoming popular as a key source of information on disasters and crisis situations. Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief (HADR) respondents can gain valuable insights and situational awareness by monitoring social mediabased feeds. Specifically, the use of microblogs (i.e., Twitter) has been shown to provide new information not otherwise attainable. In this paper, we present a n...

The flexibility of mobile wireless ad hoc networks (MANET) and global coverage of satellite communications presented an ideal combination to provide emergency and disaster relief services. This paper presented the concept of a hybrid MANET-satellite network developed in the on optimising hybrid ad hoc and satellite networks (MONET) project funded within the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7). It ...

BACKGROUND It is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. In China, however, it is not clear whether the Chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment. METHODS A pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluat...

Disaster Management has become an issue of growing importance. Planning for and managing large scale emergencies is complex. The number of both victims and relief workers is large and the time pressure is extreme. Emergency response and triage systems with 2D user interfaces are currently under development and evaluation. Disasters present a number of spatially related problems and an overwhelm...

PREPARATION: LONG-TERM RESCUE AND DISASTER-RELIEF STRATEGIES: Located only 50 miles from the Gulf Coast and Galveston, Houston, Texas, is familiar with the challenges posed by hurricanes, tropical storms, and flooding. The hospitals of Houston and Harris County are no strangers to the aftermath of such natural disasters, themselves being victims of massive damage in 2001, when the entire Housto...