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Empirical research on the utility of a preparation manual for a disaster medical response drill

Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2017
Takao Arai,1 Shoichi Ohta,1 Masaki Onishi,2 Miyu Taniguchi,1 Junya Tsurukiri,1 Kenichiro Kumasaka,1 Katsuhiro Nagata,1 Kensuke Suzuki,3 Ken Harigae,4 Tetsuo Yukioka1 1Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Trauma and Emergency Center ...
Arai T, Ohta S, Onishi M, Taniguchi M, Tsurukiri J, Kumasaka K, Nagata K, Suzuki K, Harigae K, Yukioka T   +9 more
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Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework

Ecology and Society
Natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, and droughts pose fundamental challenges to ecosystems and the communities that inhabit them, hence triggering and even forcing community renewal over time. In preparation for future disasters, communities
Steffen Farny, Domenico Dentoni
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Framework for capacity building for post disaster construction & demolition waste management at national level [PDF]

, 2013
The entire world is facing frequent and severe disasters In a disaster, generation of waste is unavoidable and critical as it differs from a normal situation in terms of quantity and composition Thus, improper waste management is a major environmental ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Karunasena, Gayani   +2 more
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Disaster risk reduction strategies and post-disaster infrastructure reconstruction [PDF]

World’s vulnerability to natural disasters has increased over the last few years. Hence, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into constructed facilities has taken up an important role in the whole of the disaster management cycle. This paper aims to
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Haigh, Richard, Palliyaguru, R. S.   +2 more
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Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific [PDF]

, 2013
Disasters, and therefore disaster response, in the Pacific are expected to be affected by climate change. This research addressed this issue, and focused on the immediate humanitarian needs following a disaster, drawing upon adaptive capacity as a ...
Anna Gero, Stephanie Fletcher, Michele Rumsey   +2 more
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Systematic review on the current state of disaster preparation Simulation Exercises (SimEx). [PDF]

BMC Emerg Med, 2023
Mahdi SS, Jafri HA, Allana R, Battineni G, Khawaja M, Sakina S, Agha D, Rehman K, Amenta F.   +8 more
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The preparation and delivery of the natural disaster recovery work plans for Queensland and Victoria [PDF]

, 2013
The ANAO is undertaking three audits of key aspects of the National Partnership Agreements (NPAs) signed with Queensland and Victoria in relation to natural disasters over the 2010–11 Australian spring and summer seasons.

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Correction: Systematic review on the current state of disaster preparation Simulation Exercises (SimEx). [PDF]

BMC Emerg Med, 2023
Mahdi SS, Jafri HA, Allana R, Battineni G, Khawaja M, Sakina S, Agha D, Rehman K, Amenta F.   +8 more
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Mobility vulnerability index for community vulnerability assessment in disaster response

npj Natural Hazards
The Mobility Vulnerability Index (MVI) introduces a dynamic, adaptive framework for quantifying community vulnerability to disasters through the analysis of real-time mobility behavior. It is designed to be cross-culturally adaptive, handle data sparsity,
Jainil Anilkumar Patel, Mohammadreza Akbari Lor, Puneet Jeph, Renhe Jiang, Steven Luis, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Mei-Ling Shyu, Shu-Ching Chen   +7 more
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The impact of a disaster medicine clinical training program on medical students’ disaster literacy [PDF]

PeerJ
Background This study was conducted to assess how students’ disaster literacy was affected by the Disaster Medicine Clinical Training Program at the Izmir Democracy University Faculty of Medicine (IDUFM) during the academic year 2022–2023.
Aysel Başer, Zeynep Sofuoğlu
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