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Extreme snowfall and residential care: A case report of a 2‐year‐old girl with heart failure
Clinical Case Reports, 2020 In residential care, the daily use of social networking services with patients (and patients’ families) helps prepare for a potential disaster. This enables health workers to continue providing essential care even during disasters, while saving human and
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Special Issue on Advanced Methods for Seismic Performance Evaluation of Building Structures II
Applied Sciences, 2022 Earthquakes could be a hazard to human lives and the economy, leading to catastrophic disaster unless proper preparation is not made for buildings and infrastructures [...]
Sang Whan Han
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Policies of Disaster Management in Japan for Preparation for Nankai Megathrust Earthquake
Journal of Disaster Research, 2022 If the Nankai Megathrust Earthquake should occur, it is clear that the disaster would become a national catastrophe. To avoid the decline of Japan caused by such earthquake first of all the proactive measures, improvement of prevention, and the reactive ...
Y. Kawata
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"Last-Mile" preparation for a potential disaster [PDF]
, 2009 Extreme natural events, like e.g. tsunamis or earthquakes, regularly lead to catastrophes with dramatic consequences. In recent years natural disasters caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, destruction of infrastructure, disruption of economic activity
Gress, A. +16 more
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Evaluation of Post-Earthquake, Tsunami, and Liquefaction Disaster Waste Management in Palu [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The Central Sulawesi region is known as the meeting place for three of the world's main tectonics. As a result, the region is prone to natural disasters, especially those caused by the movement of these plates, which has prompted a shift in the Palu-Koro
Chandra Putra Parura Tezario +1 more
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Disaster: Are We Prepared? [PDF]
Nursing and Midwifery Studies, 2014 In the last issue of Nursing and Midwifery Studies Journal, there was an interesting article about the experiences of nurses in Bam earthquakes in December 2003 that left 25000 dead and put the whole nation into the shock and grief (1). In summary, nurses reported that there was such a mental stress that many of them could not perform their usual ...
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Jamba, 2021 Community based disaster management (CBDM) empowers communities to be actively engaged and be pro-active in disaster management. The involvement of the community is one of the keys to success in disaster management, especially considering the values ...
Syafwan Rozi, A. Ritonga, Januar Januar
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Social Sciences, 2020 Historically, the primary agents performing key roles in disaster preparedness, as well as risk mitigation and vulnerability reduction, in Korea have been the central government, local government, and regional government.
Seol A. Kwon, Sang Il Ryu
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Earthquake, volcanic eruption, flood, and CBRNE: How can we prepare for disasters?
Renal Replacement Therapy, 2023 It has long been known that dialysis treatment is susceptible to disasters. In fact, the Great Hanshin earthquake in 1995 and the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster in 2011 severely affected dialysis treatment; however, in the previous disasters ...
Tomoyuki Yamakawa
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Disaster preparedness of Hiroshima community health nurses: A mixed-method study
Progress in Disaster Science, 2023 The number of natural disasters has increased globally as a result of climate change. Community nurses become frontline workers in disaster-struck areas, protecting their clients from harm and risk.
Mayumi Kako, Alison Hutton
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