Maintaining the health of people during and after a disaster is one of the most important issues in disaster management. Blood products are among the essential items needed to save the human life and the lack of them may lead to significant losses in human health. In this paper a comprehensive mathematical model of blood products supply chain is presented to respond the need for blood products ...

After severe disasters, persons living not only in the directly affected areas, but also in distant areas could be seriously affected thorough images of the disaster on television and in newspapers. Hence, it can be difficult to define qualified beneficiaries for policy compensation in terms of psychological suffering. Building on the case of Great East Japan Earthquake, we appraise psychologic...

On 11th March 2011 a magnitude nine earthquake struck the Tohoku region of Japan. The earthquake resulted in a large tsunami and an accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Previous studies have suggested that demographic indices relating to reproduction and marriage change after such massive disasters (e.g. large earthquakes). The present study investigated whether the number of births, ...

BACKGROUND On March 11, 2011, a massive undersea earthquake and tsunami struck East Japan. Few studies have investigated the impact of exposure to a natural disaster on preschool children. We investigated the association of trauma experiences during the Great East Japan Earthquake on clinically significant behavior problems among preschool children 2 years after the earthquake. METHOD Partici...

UNLABELLED Little is known about pediatric surgical disease in resource-poor countries. This study documents the surgical care of children in central Haiti and demonstrates the influence of the 2010 earthquake on pediatric surgical delivery. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of operations performed at Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante hospitals in central Haiti. RESULTS Of 2,057 op...

background: short golden time is important to save the injured in earthquake and to start search and rescue (sar) operation as soon as possible in affected regions. this study evaluated application of geographic information system (gis) for sar operation in rigan town, kerman province, which was hit by an earthquake of 6.3 richter scale on december 12, 2010 at 22:12. materials and methods: a gi...

One of the most important components of recovery and speedy response during and immediately after an earthquake disaster is a communication and tracking which possibly capable of discovering affected peoples and connects them with their families, friends, and communities with first responders and/or to support computational systems. With the capabilities of current mobile technologies, we belie...

The Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred on March 11, 2011 was the earthquake and tsunami of the largest in the earthquake that occurred in Japan. Despite the passage of time, some people living of the Pacific coast of Tohoku have complained about the mental and physical condition such as insomnia and anxiety. This means that some people who experienced the Great East Japan Earthquake are ...

The December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was the worst tsunami disaster in the world’s history with more than 200,000 casualties. This disaster was attributed to giant size (magnitude M ~ 9, source length >1000 km) of the earthquake, lacks of expectation of such an earthquake, tsunami warning system, knowledge and preparedness for tsunamis in the Indian Ocean countries. In the last ten years, sei...

throughout the history, earthquakes led to not only the destruction of many homes and damage to a lot of people, but also homeless of people and in need of medical aid. one of the key issues which have always great importance during the disaster is supply the needed blood of blood units' applicant people. therefore, in this paper with the design of blood supply chain at the time of earthquake d...