The Western Himalayan region is subjected to intense and frequent disasters, resulting from intense rainfall and its steep topography. These characteristics, together with human activities concentrated in the valley, make this region highly susceptible to hydro-meteorological hazards, and frequently led to human losses. In this context, Disaster Risk Management (DRM) policies are the basis for ...

A Comprehensive Health Technology Assessment Framework is presented as a conceptual tool for decision-making about health technologies, including information technologies. The aim of the model is to provide an empirical, evidence-based foundation for health technology decisions. The major framework dimensions are (1) population at risk, (2) population impact, (3) economic concerns, (4) social c...

The objective of this study was to assess whether living in proximity to a roofing fiber cement factory in southern Thailand was associated with physical, mental, social, and spiritual health domains measured in a self-reported health risk assessment (HRA) questionnaire. A cross-sectional study was conducted among community members divided into two groups: near population (living within 0-2km o...

background: euroscore is a simple and rigorous risk stratification model and is, thus, commonly used in predicting the early and late outcomes of cardiac surgery across the world. we aimed to assess the discriminative power of the euroscore model to predict postoperative morbidity and total prolonged length of stay in hospital (los) and intensive care unit (icu) stay in an iranian group of card...

background: the bibliometric methods have been used in many disciplines of sciences to study the scientific production and research trends. in this study, they were used to investigate research trends related to the risk assessment of cryptosporid­ium pathogen in water field. methods : data were obtained on the scopus database from 1993 to 2013. re­search tendency was investigated by analyzing ...

Abstract Landslide is one of the disasters that often occurs in Pati Regency. This study aims to analyze risk landslides The landslide index Regency carried out by analyzing three components: hazard index, vulnerability, and capacity according BNPB head regulation No. 2 year 2012 concerning General Guidelines for Disaster Risk Assessment. results showed a high 49 villages 406 throughout sub-dis...

Risk and resilience assessments have been both widely, but separately, used as tools for guiding policymakers to formulate disaster-risk reduction policies. On the one hand, risk assessment is utilized estimate associated with disasters in terms of operational metrics such monetary or casualties’ loss; on other most analysis assesses represent community an index, without a specific unit metric,...

Title: Changes in the pattern of service utilisation and health problems of women, men and various age groups following a destructive disaster: a matched cohort study with a pre-disaster assessment