'Exercise London'--a community disaster plan.

Simulation of a hospital disaster plan: a virtual, live exercise.

INTRODUCTION Currently, there is no widely available method to evaluate an emergency department disaster plan. Creation of a standardized patient database and the use of a virtual, live exercise may lead to a standardized and reproducible method that can be used to evaluate a disaster plan. PURPOSE A virtual, live exercise was designed with the primary objective of evaluating a hospital's eme...

South East London: Sustainability and Transformation Plan

Financial Assessment of London Plan Policy 4A.2 by Probabilistic Inference and Influence Diagrams

London Plan is the London mayor’s Spatial Development Strategy. This strategic long-term plan comprises of proposals for different aspects of change within the London boundary. Furthermore, the proposals include chapters outlining adjustments in each facet. Policy 4A.2 reflects the Climate Change Mitigation scheme. Some consultations and research works have been performed to this point, but an ...

Prioritization Community Selection Criteria for Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Intervention

Prioritization Community Selection Criteria for Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction Intervention Vahid Ghanbari 1, Ali Ardalan 2, Sirus Salari 3, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh 2, Mahboubeh Rahimi 4, Farzaneh Talebi 3, Reza Abbaszadeh 2, Asghar Tavan 5, Arezoo Yari 2, 6, * 1School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran 2Department of Disaster and Eme...

Governance and Capacity to Manage Resilience of Health Systems: Towards a New Conceptual Framework

The term resilience has dominated the discourse among health systems researchers since 2014 and the onset of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. There is wide consensus that the global community has to help build more resilient health systems. But do we really know what resilience means, and do we all have the same vision of resilience? The present paper presents a new conceptual framework on go...