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

Son yıllarda afet sayılarında ve afetlere bağlı yaşanan can mal kayıplarında artış bireylerin afetler konusundaki farkındalıklarının önemini arttırmıştır. Bireylerde bilinci oluşturmada eğitim sosyal bilgiler dersi önemli bir misyon üstlenmektedir. Bu nedenle ileride öğretimi görevini üstlenecek olan öğretmen adaylarının belirlenmesi görülmektedir. bağlamda araştırmanın amacı, farkındalık düzey...

When stricken by a catastrophic natural disaster, the efficiency of disaster response operation is very critical to life saving. However, communication systems, including cellular networks, were usually crashed due to various causes making the coordination among a large number of disorganized disaster response workers extremely difficult. Unfortunately, rapid deployment of an emergency communic...

OBJECTIVE To fulfill the health teaching and promotion responsibilities of public health nurses, a teaching intervention was devised to prepare low-income, low-resource families to survive a worst-case disaster scenario. The purpose of this study is to introduce that plan. DESIGN Teaching sessions were held to increase awareness about disaster preparedness and to provide the resources necessa...

PURPOSE Dental hygienists can fill critical roles during mass fatality incidents in the area of disaster victim identification, providing much needed support to forensic odontologists. The purpose of this paper is to bring awareness that research is needed to assess current dental hygiene programs, continuing education opportunities and the type of approach being used to develop and implement p...

INTRODUCTION Recent events have heightened awareness of disaster health issues and the need to prepare the health workforce to plan for and respond to major incidents. This has been reinforced at an international level by the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine, which has proposed an international educational framework. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to outline the devel...