One year after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the Office for Policy of Suicide Prevention of the Cabinet Office published and distributed three stages of pamphlets under the supervision of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, promoting understanding about mental healthcare for those affected by natural disasters. Pamphlets are meant for universal usage and have commonly been used ...

Earthquakes, as a nature disaster, not only causes deaths, physical disease, damage to the infrastructure and economic loss, it also keeps long-lasting Mental Health effects on individuals involved. There will always be cases of psychological disorders such as PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, cognitive disorder, personality disorders, and so on, especially with individuals deal...

("Ethics, Clinical"[Mesh] OR "Bioethical Issues"[Mesh] OR "Ethics"[Mesh] OR "Culture"[Mesh] OR ethics[tiab] OR "value system"[All Fields] OR "Cultural Characteristics"[Mesh] OR "Cultural Diversity"[Mesh] OR "Cross-Cultural Comparison"[Mesh]) AND ("Bioterrorism"[Mesh] OR "Terrorism"[Mesh] OR "Disasters"[Mesh] OR disaster[tiab] OR bioterrorism[tiab] OR hurricane[tiab] OR tornado[tiab] OR flood[ti...

In order to evaluate the superiority of a filtered tailings storage facility (FTSF) to conventional tailings impoundment in the southern rainy regions of China (SRRC), the tailings slurry leakage and pollution accident occurring at the wet tailings dam (WTD) of Yinshan were analyzed, the properties of the tailings were tested in a laboratory, and the possibility of tailings liquefaction was eva...

Rivers sourced in the Himalayan mountain range carry some of the largest sediment loads on the planet, yet coarse gravel in these rivers vanishes within approximately 10-40 kilometres on entering the Ganga Plain (the part of the North Indian River Plain containing the Ganges River). Understanding the fate of gravel is important for forecasting the response of rivers to large influxes of sedimen...

The disease early warning system (DEWS) was introduced in the immediate aftermath of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, with the objective to undertake prompt investigation and mitigation of disease outbreaks. The DEWS network was replicated successfully during subsequent flood and earthquake disasters as well as during the 2008-09 internally displaced persons' crisis. DEWS-generated alerts, prom...

1. introduction natural hazards have existed in all periods of human life, but nowadays due to the exponential growth of human and population density in all aspects of life, especially in high risk areas, human has been faced with major disasters such as the asia tsunami, hurricane katrina and the earthquake in sichuan of china with significant casualties even in developed countries. these haza...

Within the insurance industry, catastrophe modelling is a process for assessing and quantifying the impact of natural and man-made hazards on insured assets. This will involve replicating, using a computer model, the action of the hazard (earthquake, hurricane, flood), the vulnerability of the asset which is exposed to the hazard (e.g. a building, an oil-rig) and the financial mechanism of the ...