human beings have always experienced disasters. a disaster may be brief,but its psychological effects may last for many years. these psychological effects are increasingly well documented.disasters affect not only those immediately involved, but also those whoknow the victims. this is perhaps particularly so when the victims arechildren. commonly when adults hear news of disasters they ask firs...

We consider a multi-stage disaster management problem with risk adjustments. The first-stage determines the quantities of emergency supplies to be pre-positioned at the known suppliers and the locations of transfer centers. These first-stage decisions are made before observing the random demands of the disaster victims for these supplies and the random road capacities. We assume that both deman...

A liberal-arts-based undergraduate nursing program engaged in curriculum enhancement activities that led to the implementation of a disaster simulation for 81 multidisciplinary undergraduate students. A pretest/posttest design was used to determine the effectiveness of preparation for the simulation. Nursing students in three levels of the program received didactic preparation in disaster prepa...

In natural disaster, quick rescue is required. However, quick rescue is very difficult because victims are most likely to be left at the place where the rescue team are hard to find, such as under debris of broken house. The necessity for the rescue robot, which assists the rescue team by searching and finding victims of a disaster, is increasing. Nowadays many researchers and facilities are fo...

Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that donations specifically for the victims of the tsunami are positively associat...

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) is a culmination of several individuals that include rescue teams, recovery teams, forensic pathologists, odontologists and anthropologists. All these personnel work collaboratively to bring together their respective fields to identifying victims in a disaster. Factors needing consideration after a disaster include the number of victims, condition of remains...

OBJECTIVE Children account for 30 percent of the US population; as a result, many victims of disaster events are children. The most critically injured pediatric victims would be best cared for in a tertiary care pediatric hospital. The Children's Hospital Association (CHA) undertook a survey of its members to determine their level of readiness to respond to a mass casualty disaster. DESIGN Th...

BACKGROUND In 2003, the Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management (WADEM) published guidelines for evaluation and research on health disaster management and recommended the development of a uniform data reporting tool. Standardized and complete reporting of data related to disaster medical response activities will facilitate the interpretation of results, comparisons between medical ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES A large numbers of subjects were exposed to the aerosol of methyl isocyanate (MIC) during Bhopal gas disaster and lung was one of the most commonly affected organs. The aim of the present study was to analyze retrospectively the lung function abnormalities among the surviving MIC exposed population (gas victims) and to compare it with the non-MIC exposed (non gas exposed...