Failures of Emergency Relief

Failures of emergency relief.

Summarizing Microblogs for Emergency Relief and Preparedness

In recent years, Online Social Media (OSM) has established itself as one of the most significant sources of situational information during any natural or man-made disaster. Real-time summarization of this rapidly posted huge volume of crowdsourced responses is a common requirement for emergency relief and preparedness when time is critical. Our semi-automatic method exploits a combination of Su...

Redesigning the Upstream Emergency Relief Supply Chain: An Empirical Assessment

This paper empirically studies (i) forecasting emergency relief aid shipments and (ii) redesigning upstream humanitarian supply chains as means to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of disaster response. The United States Agency for International Development provided unique data about its emergency food aid shipments over a period of about eleven years. We find that while it is not possib...

Occupational accidents among ambulance drivers in the emergency relief.

We analyzed the occurrence of occupational accidents (OA) among ambulance drivers in Emergency Relief (ER), with a view to disclosing the types of events and their causes. A quantitative-qualitative study was carried out through the interview of 22 workers in a city in São Paulo, Brazil. The subjects were male, between 36 and 40 years old (40.9%), married (81.82%), with uncompleted primary educ...

evaluation of efficacy of intra-nasal lidocaine for headache relief in patients refer to emergency department

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