conclusions although the general knowledge of our study groups on ai is relatively fair, they are not prepared for ai epidemics. background medical staff’s knowledge and preparedness has an important role in providing specialized care to the patients as well as controlling and preventing the epidemics. objectives the aim of the study is to examine and compare the knowledge and preparedness in t...

The year 2005 was a watershed for disaster management worldwide and also in Cuba. Representatives of every continent met in Japan, hammering out the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-2015), an international blueprint for risk reduction strategies and a guide for developing national platforms. In Cuba, a spate of devastating hurricanes the year before led to a reassessment of how the country was ...

Earthquake has always endangered cities. This article mainly focuses on the question “whether seismic damages could be diminished through the presentation a preventive operational pattern dealing with physical and nonphysical features of civil defense”. Tehran, the most populous metropolis among Iranian cities is to the south of Alborz mountain range, located on potentially dangerous fault- lin...

Subsequent events seem to indicate that, when President Kennedy, in July of 1961, made his appeal for family fallout shelters, he was not doing so because he thought the shelters would protect a large part of the public from a likely nuclear attack. Rather, it seems, his intent in the shelter program, as in the call-up of reserves that took place at about the same time, was to enhance the credi...

PREFACE This report on Recovery From Nuclear Attack should be of interest to all concerned with civil defense and nuclear attack. As pointed out in the report, the "impossibility" of recovery is often advanced as a reason for doing nothing to develop an effective civil defense program for the United States. However, those who have devoted years to the study of civil defense in general, and post...