This paper examines the travel behavior of the Chinese and Korean tourism market following the Japan Earthquake in a bid to identify travelers who are likely to be most and least resilient in the event of a significant disaster. The post disaster travel behavior of travelers from these two countries is analyzed to reveal the circumstances under which travelers would go to Japan despite the eart...

A b s t r a c t To relieve damages of earthquake disaster, " The Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Urban Areas " have been kicked off in Japan. Our researcb group is a part of the sub-project " modeling of disaster environment for search and rescue " since 2002. In this project, our group aims to develop a three-dimensional mapping's algorithm that is installed in a mobile r...

The Great East Japan Earthquake, a magnitude 9.0 quake that occurred on March 11, 2011, left more than 20,000 killed or missing and resulted in more than 400,000 people being displaced. The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident released large amounts of radioactive material into the air. Among the victims of this combined disaster were many pregnant and parturient women, and this study aimed t...

On 22 February 2011, Christchurch New Zealand (population 367,700) experienced a devastating earthquake, causing extensive damage and killing one hundred and eighty-five people. The earthquake and aftershocks occurred between the 2009 and 2011 waves of a longitudinal probability sample conducted in New Zealand, enabling us to examine how a natural disaster of this magnitude affected deeply held...

After the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the Japanese national disaster medical system (NDMS) was developed. It mainly consists of four components, namely, a disaster base hospital, an emergency medical information system, a disaster medical assistance team (DMAT), and national aeromedical evacuation (AE). The NDMS was tested for the first time in a real disaster situation during the G...

OBJECTIVES Disaster medicine research generally lacks control groups. This study aims to describe categories of diagnoses encountered by the Belgian First Aid and Support Team after the 2010 Haiti earthquake and extract earthquake-related changes from comparison with comparable baseline data. The hypothesis is that besides earthquake-related trauma, medical problems emerge soon, questioning an ...

Disaster management planning of all educational institutes in high earthquake prone-areas is a necessity. In this paper, the development of an earthquake management system for nursery schools is highlighted. The unavoidable nature of the disasters, the impossibility to predict them and the need for considering the safety of the very young generation who are the future assets of communities emph...

The publication of this issue of PrehospitalandDisasterMedicine coincides with the centennial of the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake does not rank with the larger earthquakes in world history and is not even the largest earthquake in US history. In fact, readers of this journal will recall many recent earthquakes that produced exponentially greater health ...

This study examines the effects of economic loss on the life satisfaction and mental health of Wenchuan earthquake survivors. Economic loss is measured by earthquake impacts on the income and houses of the survivors. The correlation analysis shows that earthquake impact on income is significantly correlated with life satisfaction and depression. The regression analyses indicate that earthquake ...

Trauma experience not only could predict longterm physical and mental health problems, but also could have impact on the cognitive processes. Modified Stroop task and subliminal masked priming task were used to examine the automatic cognitive processing of earthquake-related stimulus (disaster-related, rescue-related, and earthquake-unrelated words) of healthy undergraduates at one month and tw...