Social Networks such as Twitter are often used for disseminating and collecting information during natural disasters. The potential for its use in Disaster Management has been acknowledged. However, more nuanced understanding of the communications that take place on social networks are required to more effectively integrate this information into the processes within disaster management. The typ...

Depending on their nature and severity, disasters can create large volumes of debris and waste. The waste can overwhelm existing solid waste management facilities and impact on other emergency response and recovery activities. If poorly managed, the waste can have significant environmental and public health impacts and can affect the overall recovery process. This paper presents a system overvi...

People have the tendency to associate disaster with emergencies only, and disaster management with emergency response. Disaster management however, goes beyond rescue operations, and involves actions directed at reducing risk and vulnerabilities in case disaster occurs. These actions require functional structures that coordinate different organizations, consolidate different skills and precipit...

BACKGROUND In 2003, the Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management (WADEM) published guidelines for evaluation and research on health disaster management and recommended the development of a uniform data reporting tool. Standardized and complete reporting of data related to disaster medical response activities will facilitate the interpretation of results, comparisons between medical ...

A disaster inventory system is considered in which two substitutable items are stored for disaster management. In the event of disaster management, a particular product may become stock-out and the situation warrants that a demand for the particular product during its stock-out period may be substituted with another available similar product in the inventory. From the utility point of view, con...

During disasters, especially following earthquakes, health systems are expected to play an essential role in reducing mortality and morbidity. The most significant naturally occurring disaster in Iran is earthquakes; they have killed >180,000 people in the last 90 years. According to the current plan in 2007, the disaster management system of Iran is composed of three main work groups: (1) Prev...

BACKGROUND The impact and management of HIV/AIDS in Lesotho in the context of disaster management was investigated. OBJECTIVES Lesotho health care workers' perception on HIV/AIDS progression, whether HIV/AIDS was managed as a disaster, and the impact on the demographic profile was investigated. METHODS The empirical investigation included a literature study, and primary and secondary data a...

results a total of 22 documents were included in the final analysis. most of the documents referred to women, children, elderly people, poor, and villagers as vulnerable people. moreover, the documents did not provide information regarding official measures for protecting vulnerable people during different phases of disaster management. conclusions a clear and comprehensive definition of “vulne...

the field of crisis management knowledge and expertise is associated with a wide range of fields. knowledge-based crisis management is a combination of science, art and practice. iran is an earthquake-prone country. through years several earthquakes have happened in the country resulting in many human and financial losses. according to scientific standards, the first 24 hours following an earth...