BACKGROUND In recent years, natural disasters and the accompanying health risks have become more frequent, and rehabilitation work has become an important part of government performance. On one hand, social networks play an important role in participants' therapeutic community participation and physical & mental recovery. On the other hand, therapeutic communities with widespread participation ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to quantify the health problems and to assess the possible risk factors for developing health problems in persons affected by the explosion of a firework depot at Enschede, The Netherlands, on May 13, 2000. The explosion considerably damaged buildings in the local neighbourhood and caused 22 immediate deaths and injuries in over 1000 people. METHODS A longitudinal study of...

The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, with a magnitude of Mw 8.0, induced numerous landslides. Remote sensing planes were sent out to take high resolution aerial photographs, from which the geologic hazards could be instantly interpreted. However, aerial images covering all of the study area could not be obtained in a short time because of the limitations of the planes and the influence of weather cond...

This paper compares recovery in the wake of three recent earthquakes: the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011; the Van earthquake in Turkey in October 2011; and the Maule earthquake in Chile in February 2010. The authors visited all three locations approximately 12-18 months after the incidents and interviewed earthquake specialists, disaster managers, urban planners, and local authoritie...

Mass Gatherings and Public Health   Mass gatherings are highly visible events with the potential for serious health and political consequences if not managed carefully and effectively.1-4 Mass gatherings have been reported to have significant impact upon public health systems throughout the world.5-10 International mass gathering events, such as those associated with the Olympic Games, often ca...

Flood is one of the annual disasters in many places. It has not been well-managed yet both pre-disaster and post-disaster. Image processing machine learning are commonly utilized for disaster management systems such as forecasting any potential flood by monitoring water level rivers dams. However, it a limited framework to be implemented strategic plan management. Thus, this study aims develop ...

The Tohoku Region Pacific Coast Earthquake and its Tsunami caused serious damage to the pacific coast in northeastern Japan including Iwate prefecture. We suppose it is important to present the serious situation in the disaster areas to gain public understanding and support. In this paper, we propose Reconstruction Watcher which presents visually reconstruction progress to gain public understan...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the logic Indonesian government in carrying out rehabilitation and reconstruction program following December 26, 2004 earthquake tsunami disaster Aceh. This calamity has resulted several casualties, property loss, extensive damage infrastructure dwellings. After emergency response process, one key goals for restoring people's life implement program. U...

BACKGROUND Disaster experiences have been associated with higher prevalence rates of (mental) health problems. The objective of this study was to examine the independent relation between a series of single disaster experiences versus the independent predictive value of a accumulation of disaster experiences, i.e. a sum score of experiences and symptoms of distress and post-traumatic stress diso...

Abstract The rapid erection system of transmission lines in disaster relief can restore the power supply area a very short time. It takes long time to construct post-disaster and reconstruction. This paper designs line with idea light quality modularization puts forward dimensions structures auxiliary hoisting towers overhead towers. Then, considering that is tall flexible structure, which sens...