Management of Disaster Medicine Service

Disaster Management and Emergency Medicine in Malaysia

Web-Service Network for Disaster Management

The paper addresses the issue of context-aware operational decision support in emergency situations. A decision support system (DSS) developed for this purpose is implemented as a network of a set of Web-services. The Webservices try to organise a service network according to context. Here the context is proposed to be modelled as a “problem model”. It specifies problems to be solved in a parti...

Geo-fencing Based Disaster Management Service

The success of disaster handling often depends on the efficient flow of information. The social media and networks receive a growing attention as potential source of valuable data in disaster scenarios. The social network based information flow is real-time, direct, two-directional and often geo-tagged. Unfortunately, besides these obvious advantages, social network data suffers from drawbacks:...

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

History of Disaster Medicine

Erik Noji, mentioned, tongue in cheek, Noah as the first disaster manager during a lecture in 2005. The canonical description of "The Genesis Flood" does describe Noah as a master planner and executer of an evacuation of biblical proportions. After gaining knowledge of a potential catastrophic disaster he planned and executed an evacuation to mitigate the effects of the "Genesis Flood" by build...