The purpose of this study is to grasp the current situation disaster prevention measures in special elderly nursing homes. A questionnaire survey was conducted homes nationwide, and received responses from 1685 facilities. All facilities were classified into four types, based on number disasters each three phases, then further subcategorized ten types. In addition, whole country divided regions...

INTRODUCTION The traditional centralized approach to disaster preparedness fails to take into consideration the unique geographic, historic, cultural, and social needs of communities. It often puts vulnerable communities more at risk by directing them to follow a one-size-fits-all model. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) approaches can increase awareness and customize the disaster r...

When addressing terrorist threats we must give special attention to both prevention and disaster response. Enabling effective interactions between agent teams and humans for disaster response is a critical area of research, with encouraging progress in the past few years. However, previous work suffers from two key limitations: (i) limited human situational awareness, reducing human effectivene...

The tourism sector in the disaster-prone area of Mount Merapi continues to increase and has become one main sources income for local community after major eruption 2010. high number visitors with various characteristics areas placed at risk during a disaster, especially those no disaster awareness. Visitors should possess awareness reduce risks when occurs. This study aims determine visitors' p...

There are an increasing amount and variety of disasters occurring throughout the United States. Many of these disasters require physicians to provide medical assistance. This article provides a brief introduction to disaster preparedness and its recent history and physicians' obligations, role, education, preparation, and response. It is the intent of this article to increase awareness and prov...

Social media allows the public to engage in the disaster response and recovery process in new and exciting ways. Many emergency management agencies in the United States are embracing social media as a new channel for alerts, warnings, and public outreach, but very few are mining the massive amounts of data available for use in disaster response. The research reflected in this paper strives to h...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the effects of social isolation in the elderly on their process of gaining health information and seeking health care. CASE PRESENTATION In March 2011, Fukushima, Japan experienced an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster, also known as Japan's triple disaster. In June 2016, an 80-year-old Japanese man, who lived alone after divorce at the age of 42, prese...

INTRODUCTION A devastating earthquake is inevitable in the long term and likely in the near future in Iran. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge of hospital staff to disaster management system in hospital and to determine nonstructural safety assessment in Shahid Mohammadi hospital in Bandar Abbas city of Iran. This hospital is the main referral hospital in Hormozgan province ...

Victims, volunteers, and relief organizations are increasingly using social media to report and act on large-scale events, as witnessed in the extensive coverage of the 2010–2012 Arab Spring uprisings and 2011 Japanese tsunami and nuclear disasters. TwitterA feeds consist of short messages, often in a nonstandard local language, requiring novel techniques to extract relevant situation awareness...