Hazard Vulnerability Analysis: Practices in Massachusetts Hospitals

Volcanic Risk Assessments: Integrating Hazard and Social Vulnerability Analysis

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Combined Hurricane and Earthquake Hazard Component Vulnerability Analysis

Recent advancements in the area of structural dynamics have allowed civil engineers to better understand and control the response of structures to natural hazards, such as earthquakes and hurricanes. The social and economic impacts of natural disasters are continually increasing due to population growth and increasing number of older buildings with time. Through hazard mitigation engineers are ...

Management Practices in Hospitals

We develop a new methodology for measuring management practices in hospitals, and use this in 182 interviews of physicians and managers in public and private hospitals (covering 61% of English acute trusts). We find our management measure is strongly correlated with hospital performance, both clinical outcomes like survival rates from heart attacks, and general operational and financial outcome...

Hazard Assessment in Fars Province Hospitals in Iran in 2017

INTRODUCTION: Fars is a disaster-prone province which is affected by a myriad of disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, fires, and traffic accidents. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the disaster risk of hospitals in Fars province in 2017. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed in 2017. Out of 90 hospitals in Fars province, 51 centers cooperated in the pres...

Bomb threat--a new hazard in hospitals.