L’épidémie de COVID-19 et les inondations juillet 2021 sont des évènements dramatiques mais riches d’enseignement : ces deux catastrophes ont mis à l’épreuve le système gestion risques que nous avons établi au cours dernières décennies pour assurer une protection la société face aux menaces natures diverses industrielles, environnementales, terroristes, etc. La a pris court nombreux pays europé...

In a paper appearing in this issue, Adini, et al. describe a struggle familiar to many emergency planners-the challenge of planning for all scenarios. The authors contend that all-hazards, or capabilities-based planning, in which a set of core capabilities applicable to numerous types of events is developed, is a more efficient way to achieve general health care system emergency preparedness th...

One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordingly, a number of casualties and injured people have to be known during a disaster. Obtaining an ...

CONTEXT Despite the commitment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to expand the family planning method mix and increase access to services, awareness of emergency contraception is low among women, and the method remains underused and poorly integrated in family planning programming. METHODS Data from 15 focus group discussions conducted in 2016 among women aged 15-35 were used to e...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of information technology (IT) on emergency preparedness and planning by analysing a survey of US state government departments of emergency management. The research results show that there has been a significant impact of IT on emergency planning. IT has proven to be effective for all phases of emergency management, but especially for the respo...

This paper proposes an advanced distribution automation planning problem in which emergency-based demand response plans are incorporated during service restoration process. The fitness function of this planning problem consists of various costs associated with fault occurrence in electric distribution systems consisting of the total yearly cost of customers’ interruptions, the total annualized ...

Emergency planning is an ongoing activity in which a multidisciplinary group of experts intermittently collaborate to define the most appropriate response to risks. One of the most important tasks of emergency planning is risk reduction. Such a task compiles the analysis of capabilities to face an emergency, the prioritizing of activities, and the definition of procedures and strategies. It is ...

OBJECTIVE The objective was to assess the planning needs of emergency management and public health professionals to provide a flexible and comprehensive planning tool. DESIGN This study first assessed the needs of emergency management and public health professionals via an online survey. On the basis of results of the assessment, pertinent information was collected and organized into an onlin...

awareness of women about emergency contraception in urmia     bahadori f [1] *, ayatolahi h [2] , yekta z [3] , fallahi v [4] , fallahi s4, mehdioghli r4     received: 12 mar, 2012 accepted: 25 may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the aim of this study was awareness of women which were refer to family planning and kowsar center in urmia about emergency contraception.   materials & metho...