In recent years, frequent natural disasters have brought huge losses to human lives and property, directly affecting social stability economic development. Since the driving factor of disaster management operations is speed, it will face severe challenges tremendous pressure when matching supply emergency resources with demand. However, difficult figure out demands affected area until initial p...

In response to concern about strengthening the nation's ability to protect its population and way of life (i.e., security) and ability to adapt and recover from emergencies (i.e., resilience), the President of the United States issued Presidential Policy Directive 8: National Preparedness (PPD-8) (1). Signed on March 30, 2011, PPD-8 is a directive for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to...

The greater Wellington region, New Zealand, is highly vulnerable to large earthquakes because it is cut by active faults. Bulk water supply pipelines cross the Wellington Fault at several different locations, and there is considerable concern about severe disruption of the provision of reticulated water supplies to households and businesses in the aftermath of a large earthquake. A number of po...

BACKGROUND Emergency Medical Care is an important component of health care system. Unfortunately it is however, ignored in many low income countries. We assessed the availability and quality of facility-based emergency medical care in the government health care system at district level in a low income country - Pakistan. METHODS We did a quantitative pilot study of a convenience sample of 22 ...

BACKGROUND Health centres and hospitals play a crucial role in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity by offering respectively Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (BEmONC) and Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC). The readiness of hospitals to provide CEmONC depends on the availability of qualified human resources, infrastructure like surgical theatres, and supp...

Abstract At the early stage of public health emergencies, when conventional medical reserves prepared are insufficient, and productivity could temporarily not meet surge in demand, donations can be used to cover excess demand for supplies a large extent. This paper explicitly considers allocation problem limited during emergency, incorporating uncertainty donated priorities care centers. The is...

Hurricanes threaten drinking water supplies in Florida through problems such as contamination and shortages. The purpose of this research was to review management policies addressing potable paucity caused by Hurricane Irma. A survey used understand these policies’ effects from the general public’s perspective. perceived effectiveness analyzed via cross-tabulations. results study identified sev...

The deployment of DC energy systems is an attractive alternative to conventional AC-based distribution systems, improving the efficiency supplies and promoting renewable energies [...]