Providing continuing patient care when healthcare infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed requires careful advanced planning. Substantial numbers of patients will seek medical care during a disaster, including those injured during the acute phase of the disaster, those injured in recovery and evacuation attempts, and the chronically ill who have been displaced and do not have access to the...

Information mismanagement is a major cause of man-made disasters. Incidents and errors are common and inevitable in any system or environment involving humans, and constitute potential threats. Nonetheless, serious damage can be prevented by providing decision-makers with key data in time or by presenting key information in a usable and useful way. In many complex socio-technical contexts and s...

From 2010 to 2013, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Disaster Information Management Research Center (DIMRC) continued to build its programs and services on the foundation laid in its starting years, 2008-2010. Prior to 2008, NLM had a long history of providing health information, training, and tools in response to disasters. Aware of this legacy, the NLM long range plan (Charting a Course...

A near real time airborne monitoring system for monitoring of natural disasters, mass events, and large traffic disasters was developed in the last years at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). This system consists of an optical wide-angle camera system (3K system), a SAR sensor, an optical and microwave data downlink, an onboard processing unit and ground processing station with online data tran...

INTRODUCTION: The occurrence of natural disasters leads to economic, social, and personal infrastructure damage. Moreover, the government capacities increase rapidly following a direct and major demand for assistance. In these situations, timely communication, information gathering, and coordination to respond to the needs are of critical importance. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the ...

The Great Lakes Geographer, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2001 41 Prior to the 1990s, Union Township, located near the geographic center of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula (Figure 1), was experiencing predictable, if unspectacular growth. That began to change when several championship golf courses opened, along with the Soaring Eagle Casino. New service industries such as restaurants, hotels, and gas stations open...

farmers' behavior can be affected by different socio-economic factors. the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of interpersonal information sources on grape farmers’ behavior in terms of optimum use of fertilizers in their vineyards. the data for this survey were collected using a questionnaire through structured interviews. a sample of 260 out of 3942 grape farmers of the khora...