The study aims to predict household earthquake preparedness in Malaysia using the theory of planned behavior (TPB) its original form and an extended model including community participation community-agency trust. A survey was undertaken 2019 with 550 Malaysian residential households four locations. structural equation modeling (SEM) method used this for analysis data. findings demonstrated supp...

The ASA (Advanced Seismic Assessment) module is a post-earthquake technical intervention service, developed over the years by EUCENTRE Foundation through series of national and European pilot projects, field exercises, direct experience, after latest major seismic events that struck Italy since 2009. system consists service managed at headquarters in Pavia for development damage scenarios, mobi...

In most types of disasters, one of the important but neglected issues is the surge of persons needing psychological assessments and responses. This issue was reported previously by our group after a suicide bombing event 1 and during the second Lebanon war, 2 where the number of stress casualties exceeded the number of physically injured patients, so hospitals had to rearrange in order to give ...

Caldera systems such as Long Valley Caldera, California; Taupo, New Zealand; and Campi Flegrei, Italy, experience centuries to millennia without eruption, but have the potential for large eruptions. This raises questions about how local residents' behavioral responses these low-probability high-consequence events differ from their events, wildfires earthquakes, that higher probabilities. To exa...

background: hospitals in iran are not prepared for disasters the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training functional and nonstructural hospital safety to nurses and their intervention on hospital preparedness in psychiatric razi hospital and day hospital in tehran based on hospital safety index (hsi). materials  and  methods:  this  semi-experimental  study  included  nurse  ma...

introduction: bioterrorism is a worldwide problem and has been the focus of attention during recent decades. there is no precise information on the knowledge, attitude, and preparedness of iranian red crescent volunteers in dealing with bioterrorism. therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate the above-mentioned parameters in mahabad red crescent society volunteers. methods: in this prospec...