Letter to the Editor: Application of Haddon Matrix in Disaster Management: A New Window in Disaster Mitigation Risk

Letter to Editor: Challenges of Implementing Disaster Preparedness Plan in Iran Hospitals

Smart Disaster Management Solutions for Risk Mitigation and Preparedness in Tehran, Iran

Background and objective The city of Tehran is facing serious challenges in the field of disaster management due to high population densities and being in a natural disaster-prone area. This study aims to identify the strengths and weaknesses (internal factors) and the opportunities and threats (external factors) of crisis management in Tehran at the stages of risk mitigation and preparedness, ...

Disaster Risk Management in the Iranian Hospitals: Challenges and Solutions

Background and Aim: Hospital disaster risk management accreditation standards have been developed since 2016. However, the country's hospitals are still not well prepared in this regard. This study aimed to identify the implementation challenges of the disaster Risk Management Program in the country's hospitals and provide solutions to improve it. Methods: This study was conducted as qualitativ...

The recognition of the necessity of for community-based disaster risk management to reduce the risk of vulnerability to earthquake disaster (case study: YousefAbad neighborhood of Tehran)

Disaster management and current attitudes in this area only focus on this areachr('39')s physical vulnerabilities, raising urban residentschr('39') exposure to these challenges in front of the earthquake. On the other hand, Incidental actions include reducing the vulnerability and the physical strengthening and promotion of poor organization during the disaster; they ignored the capabilities an...

Disaster Mitigation Engineering -the Kobe Earthquake Disaster

The concept of plate tectonics is generally accepted in earth science and seismology. The surface of the earth is divided into rigid tectonic plates that move on the earth surface at extremely slow speed. The islands of Japan sit on the North American and Eurasian plates. The Pacific plate moves westward and the Philippines plate moves to northwest direction; both plates sink under the islands ...

Disaster management and mitigation: the telecommunications infrastructure.

Among the most typical consequences of disasters is the near or complete collapse of terrestrial telecommunications infrastructures (especially the distribution network--the 'last mile') and their concomitant unavailability to the rescuers and the higher echelons of mitigation teams. Even when such damage does not take place, the communications overload/congestion resulting from significantly e...