background: the advent of new technologies with widespread dissemination of information has caused a fundamental change in information and educational resources. on the other hand, selection of an appropriate and valuable source of information in the field of health education is essential. therefore, this study was designed and implemented with the objective of comparing health center’s staff o...

health care management in disasters is one of the main parts of disaster management. health in disasters is affected by performance of various sectors, and has an interactive impact on various aspects of disaster management. the aim of this study was to identify the most important themes affecting the healthcare management in disaster.in this qualitative study with a content analysis approach, ...

Disasters pose severe challenges on emergency responders, who need to appropriately interpret the situational picture and take adequate actions in order to save human lives. Whereas Information Fusion (IF) systems have proven their capability of supporting human operators in rapidly gaining Situation Awareness (SAW) in control center domains, disaster management presents novel challenges: Due t...

introduction natural hazards are indeed geophysical events, such as earthquakes, volcanic activity, flooding, etc. they have the characteristic of posing danger to the different social entities of our planet. nevertheless, this danger is not only the result of the process per se (natural vulnerability), but also it is the result of the human systems and their associated vulnerabilities towards ...

The current issue of International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience is focused on community disasters, the impact of trauma exposure, and crisis intervention. The articles incorporated include studies ranging from the World Trade Center disaster to Hurricane Sandy. These studies are related to public attitudes and beliefs about disease outbreaks, the impact of volunteeris...

PRADHAN, ANU RAJ. Infrastructure Management Information System Framework for Disasters. (Under the direction of Dr. Debra F. Laefer) Three-tiered enterprise GIS architecture offers a robust, efficient, and secure mechanism as a potential revolution to disaster management systems. This paper addresses the severe limitations of existing disaster management systems and proposes an integrated manag...