Telemental health (TMH) care provided directly to the home is an emerging area of care delivery. TMH care involves awareness of safety issues and adequate safety planning, although detailed practical recommendations for home-based TMH safety planning are absent in the literature. With this article we aim to increase awareness of safety issues associated with home-based synchronous TMH treatment...

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Hoetmer defines emergency management as the discipline and profession of applying science, technology, planning, and management to deal with extreme events that can injure or kill large numbers of people, do extensive damage to property, and disrupt community life (Drabek and Hoetmer 1991). Recently, there has been increased interest in mitigating the effects of these extreme events, and this i...

Preface This report addresses response preparedness for large-scale emergency incidents, be they acts of terrorism, acts of Mother Nature (e.g., earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes) or human-caused accidents. We call such events major emergencies, in which local first-responder resources are overwhelmed. There simply are not enough local resources to do the many jobs at hand. Response to...

STUDY HYPOTHESIS Since the 1990s, Italian hospitals are required to comply with emergency disaster plans known as Emergency Plan for Massive Influx of Casualties. While various studies reveal that hospitals overall suffer from an insufficient preparedness level, the aim of this study was to better determine the preparedness level of Emergency Departments of Italian hospitals by assessing the kn...

Emergency management is a diverse field. Effective disaster management involves knowledge of various subjects as well as work experience in all aspects related to mitigation, planning, response, and recovery efforts. One field not being fully exploited by disaster management is the use of geospatial tools in the form of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), cartography, and geovisualization. On...