Economic consequences of follow-up disasters: Lessons from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake

Home oxygen therapy during natural disasters: lessons from the great East Japan earthquake.

Oxygen therapy is given to patients with hypoxaemia caused by diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial lung disease and cystic fibrosis [1]. In cases of natural disasters, patients receiving oxygen therapy in their homes can lose their stable oxygen supply for long periods of time due to power failure or equipment damage. Little has been established for the managemen...

Infection surveillance after a natural disaster: lessons learnt from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011.

PROBLEM On 11 March 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake produced a catastrophic tsunami that devastated the city of Rikuzen-Takata and left it without an effective health infrastructure and at increased risk of outbreaks of disease. APPROACH On 2 May 2011, a disease-surveillance team was formed of volunteers who were clinicians or members of Rikuzen-Takata's municipal government. The team's...

Lessons Learned from Data Management Activities after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011

This paper summarizes our effort towards managing the multi-disciplinary disaster-related data from the Great East Japan Earthquake, which happened on March 11, 2011 off the coast of northeast Japan. This earthquake caused the largest tsunami in the recorded history of Japan, killed many people along the coast, and caused a nuclear disaster in Fukushima, which continues to affect a large area o...

Communication Problems After the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011

OBJECTIVES After the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the resource utilization of and the problems encountered with communication devices were examined. METHODS A questionnaire survey was submitted to disaster medical assistance teams (DMATs) that were at the primary sites of destruction after the earthquake. RESULTS We collected data from 196 teams. During the first 4 days after the earth...

Insights from the great 2011 Japan earthquake