PURPOSE This is an exploratory study of nursing home preparedness in South Carolina intended to: (1) examine nursing home administrators' perceptions of disaster preparedness in their facility in the absence of an immediate emergency or disaster, and changes in their views about preparedness following a large disaster; (2) study whether administrators' knowledge of shortcomings in preparedness ...

About the lead author (Dr Krug): I am a professor of pediatrics at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and head the division of emergency medicine at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. I currently serve as the chairperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Disaster Preparedness Advisory Council and am past-chair for both the AAP Committee on Pediatr...

WPSAR Vol 6, Suppl 1, 2015 | doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.2.HYN_007 www.wpro.who.int/wpsar 5 a Offi ce of the WHO Representative in the Philippines, Sta Cruz, Manila, Philippines. b Health Emergency Management Bureau, Department of Health, Sta Cruz, Manila, Philippines. Submitted: 1 June 2015; Published: 6 November 2015 doi: 10.5365/wpsar.2015.6.2.HYN_007 The Philippine National Disaster Risk Redu...

In contemporary organizations, a wide gamut of options is available for sustaining and supporting health care operations. When disaster strikes, despite having tenable plans for routine replenishment and operations, many organizations find themselves ill-prepared, ill-equipped, and without effective mechanisms in place to sustain operations during the immediate aftermath of a crisis. Health car...

The goal of this study was to assess hospital capacity for disaster preparedness within Nairobi County. This information would be valuable to institutional strategists to resolve weaknesses and reinforce strengths in hospital capacity hence ensure efficient and effective service delivery during disasters. Analytical cross-sectional research design was used. Indicator variables for capacity were...

INTRODUCTION During the last decades, several humanitarian emergencies have occurred, with an increasing number of humanitarian organizations taking part in providing assistance. However, need assessments, medical intelligence, and coordination of the aid often are sparse, resulting in the provision of ineffective and expensive assistance. When an earthquake with the strength of 7.7 on the Rich...

Copyright © 2014, Kashan University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kashan University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In the last issue of Nursing and Midwifery Studies Journal, ...

BACKGROUND Natural disasters have always been associated with significant adverse events including medical and mental health problems. Children with chronic disease such has diabetes have also been believed to be affected to a greater extent by any natural disaster. The purpose of this study was to assess and compare emergency preparedness post-disaster and post-traumatic stress effects of Hurr...