This review defines crisis risk communication, traces its origins to a number of applied fields, and then shows how basic principles have become incorporated into emergency preparedness and risk communication for public health. Literature from four different disciplines that inform crisis risk communications are reviewed. These are (a) environmental risk communication, (b) disaster management, ...

This chapter is about the design and implementation of an information system, using wiki technology to improve the emergency preparedness efforts of the Claremont University Consortium. For some organizations, as in this case, responding to a crisis situation is done within a consortia environment. Managing knowledge across the various entities involved in such efforts is critical. This include...

awareness and preparedness for prevention of crisis plays an important role in minimizing its impacts and fatalities. this study suggests how to enhance the efficiency of crisis management through applying a resilience engineering (re) approach. the aim of this study was to design a questionnaire to assess crisis management based on re approach. in this descriptive survey, four principles of re...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, application of nuclear technology in different industries has largely expanded worldwide. Proportionately, the risk of nuclear incidents and the resulting injuries have, therefore, increased in recent years. Preparedness is an important part of the crisis management cycle; therefore efficient preplanning seems crucial to any crisis management plan. Equipped with facilities ...

Background: unforeseen events, such as a pandemic crisis, and disasters sometimes spontaneously arise in the healthcare organization. While it is recommended that management should formulate robust plans readiness for crises, there little evidence on current preparedness of strategic human resource crisis Saudi Arabia. Purpose: this research was conducted to analyze role planning Methods: quant...

objective: to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, and preparedness of mahabad red crescent society volunteers in dealing with chemical attacks. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted on 120 red crescent society volunteers in mahabad city, iran, during 2014-2015.the knowledge of the volunteers was evaluated and rated using a questionnaire as poor, moderate, and good. also, t...

BACKGROUND Preparedness is considered essential for healthcare organizations to respond effectively to outbreaks. In the current study we aim to capture the views of first responders on what they consider key recommendations for high quality preparedness. Furthermore, we identified the recommendations with the highest urgency from the perspective of first responders. METHODS We chose a multis...