background and objectives: during crisis, hospitals have great responsibility in saving life and protect health of the damaged individuals. fulfilling this responsibility relies on preparedness of hospital staff, particularly the clinicians to face the relevant challenges. given the lack of adequate information on the topic from iran, the present study aimed to explore the technical crisis prep...

Background and Objectives: During crisis, hospitals have great responsibility in saving life and protect health of the damaged individuals. Fulfilling this responsibility relies on preparedness of hospital staff, particularly the clinicians to face the relevant challenges. Given the lack of adequate information on the topic from Iran, the present study aimed to explore the technical crisis prep...

background: iran is considered among top ten countries in the world where disasters are most likely to happen, and it ranks 4th in asia after india, bangladesh and china. hospitals are playing important roles in both predictable and unpredictable emergencies. however, crisis management model in a hospital requires careful program planning. this study aimed to survey all kermanshah university of...

In recent years, crisis response has become cyberphysical in nature because of the increased use of computing technologies by the responders. As such, crisis preparedness requires objective evaluation of crisis response in addition to the traditional drills. This paper develops a generic Crisis Response Evaluation Tool (CRET) for off-line objective crisis response evaluation to improve prepared...

background: nowadays, application of nuclear technology in different industries has largely expanded worldwide. proportionately,the risk of nuclear incidents and the resulting injuries have, therefore, increased in recent years. preparedness is an important part of the crisis management cycle; therefore efficient preplanning seems crucial to any crisis  management plan. equipped with facilities...

Humanity is always under the threat of earthquakes. Anatolian peninsula is one of the well-known area which amongst the areas endangered by earthquakes. During the history many dramatic examples have been occurred. In these earthquakes many people either died or have been injured. In addition, lots of damage in this area has been occurred. More west, in the Sea of Marmara, these earthquakes hav...

conclusions according to the results, the iranian public health centers preparedness against disasters before, during and after accidents were in safety level 4 from 10, which was undesirable. results risk rate, functional, non-structural and structural preparedness and final safety level were 58.62%, 51.48%, 54.82%, 33.97%, and 43.72%, respectively. background ahvaz metropolitan as an industri...