The emergency management combined response system is a planning and control system, set up to manage disasters. This paper presents a preliminary model of the planning and control of the combined response system and its domain. The model is based on a framework for modelling planning and control for multiple task work and on data from a training scenario. The application of the framework has ex...

Emergency response operations in electric distribution systems involve a host of decision-making problems at the reliability, performance monitoring and evaluation, and contingency planning levels. Those operations include fault diagnosis, fault location, fault isolation, restoration, and repair. As the first of a two-part survey, this paper reviews optimization models and solution methodologie...

This document, written collaboratively by members of ACHA’s Emerging Public Health Threats and Emergency Response Coalition and Campus Safety and Violence Coalition, is designed to assist members of the college health community in planning for emergencies using an all-hazards approach. Its perspective is both macro and micro, beginning with a national model of response and drilling down to the ...

This study assessed the direct human resource costs of a hospital's emergency preparedness planning (in 2005) by surveying participants retrospectively. Forty participants (74% of the identified population) were surveyed. Using the self-reported hourly salary of the participant, a direct salary cost was calculated for each participant. The population was 40% male and 60% female; 65% had a gradu...

Government agencies are often responsible for event handling, planning, coordination, and status reporting during emergency response in natural disaster events such as floods, tsunamis and earthquakes. Across such a range of emergency response scenarios, there is a common set of requirements that distributed intelligent computer systems generally address. To support the implementation of these ...

Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2003: 29(2) What is emergency contraception? Emergency contraception (EC) provides women with a safe means of preventing pregnancy following unprotected sexual intercourse (UPSI) or potential contraceptive failure.2–4 Alternative terms such as ‘postcoital contraception’ or the ‘morning-after pill’ are often confusing and ‘emergency contrac...

OBJECTIVES To elaborate the impact of family planning training on general practitioners' knowledge, attitude and practices regarding emergency contraception. METHODS A cross sectional survey involving 270 general practitioners was conducted in Hyderabad from 1(st) Oct to 31(st) Dec 2010. Participants were divided into two groups on the basis of attending family planning training course after ...

In recent years planning for large-scale disasters has become increasingly important. The advent of global terrorism has added a further impetus to such preparations particularly in the planning of the provision of emergency medical services. Whilst joint emergency service training exercises and pre-planning have improved the situation it is clear that further progress can be made. An emergency...

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a major disaster on county-level preparedness for persons with mobility disabilities. The authors surveyed 30 randomly selected Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster sites between 1998 and 2003 to determine disability surveillance capacity, the extent to which the disaster experience influenced changes in policies and practic...