A ftcr the tragedies of September 11, the Public Relat ions Society of America (PRSA) asked its 20 ,000 members how public relations professionals could best help the country. Thousands responded, and their top recommendation was to help the Red Cross help Americans. "Recause the Red (joss is always at the center of disaster-relief efforts and public relations professionals often play essential...

Humanitarian organizations pre-position relief items in pre-disaster and distribute them to the affected areas in post-disaster. Improper planning of emergency operations causes more deaths in post-disaster. In this paper, the problem of relief item pre-positioning and multi-period distribution planning is addressed considering lateral transhipment among distribution centres to improve the effi...

Humanitarian relief work is a growing field characterized by ongoing exposure to primary and secondary trauma, which has implications for workers' occupational mental health. This paper reviews and summarizes research to date on mental health effects of relief work. Twelve studies on relief workers and 5 studies on organizations that employ relief workers are examined to determine whether relie...

INTRODUCTION: The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of Islamic work ethic in the relationship between spiritual intelligence and occupational self-efficacy in the Red Crescent relief workers. METHODS: This applied research was conducted based on a descriptive-survey design. The statistical population consisted of all Red Crescent relief workers in Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran (n...

OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of pain relief following injection of local anesthetic (LA) into lumbar discs that caused concordant pain during provocation testing. DESIGN Prospective collected data review from two centers and compare with published results. OUTCOME MEASURES We compared subjective reported pain relief following provocative testing using the following protocols at three ...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...

In the aftermath of a large disaster, the routing of vehicles carrying critical supplies can greatly impact the arrival times to those in need. Since it is critical that the deliveries are both fast and fair to those being served, it is not clear that the classic cost-minimizing routing problems properly reflect the priorities relevant in disaster relief. In this paper, we take the first steps ...