Humanitarian crisis simulation

Wilderness medicine in disasters and humanitarian crisis.

doi:10.1017/S1049023X11006479 In the wake of highly publicized recent disasters in Haiti, Pakistan, and elsewhere, discourse among those concerned with the management of public health emergencies has focused on defining a standard of professionalism for humanitarian and disaster responders.1 Few “prerequisites” exist for the diversity of casual responders, experienced providers, and humanitaria...

Context ontology for humanitarian assistance in crisis response

Massive crisis open data is not fully utilized to identify humanitarian needs because most of it is not in a structured format, thus hindering machines to interpret it automatically and process it in a short time into useful information for decision makers. To address these problems, the paper presents a method which merges ontologies and logic rules to represent the humanitarian needs and reco...

A Modular Collaborative Web-Based Framework for Humanitarian Crisis Management

Humanitarian response inadequate in Horn of Africa crisis.

On a bed in the fi eld hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an emaciated child, barely more than a stick fi gure, reaches out shakily to its mother’s back for support. But the mother is sitting on the edge of the bed with her back to the child, staring into space. She does not turn around. In the next bed, another refugee, Khadija, holds her 10-month-old son. They are doing slightly ...

Mental Health Research in the Syrian Humanitarian Crisis

In areas of armed conflicts, efforts to provide mental health services for refugees and internally displaced populations (IDPs) generally lack measures of effectiveness, and the gap between research and practice is significant (1). The Syrian Crisis has been described by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as “the great tragedy of this century” (2). The UNHCR reports at le...