- Disaster and Multiple Sclerosis: A Systematic Review. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: Despite the importance of planning in response to disasters to address specific problems of MS patients, there is a lack of proper planning. This is very important and there is an urgent need to develop appropriate planning protocols for addressing the special conditions of MS patients in response to disasters.
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- Simultaneous response to multiple disasters: Integrated planning for pandemics and large-scale earthquakes. [Journal Article]
- Since the beginning of COVID-19, individuals who have SARS-CoV-2 infectious have brought a heavy burden on the healthcare system. Unavoidably, along with pandemics, large-scale disasters, which are possibly emerging, may double the current health crisis. For a powerful disaster response plan, the health services should be prepared for the overwhelming number of disaster victims and infected indiv…
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- Changing the mass casualty disaster surgical response. [Letter]Lancet. 2023 Feb 04; 401(10374):346.Lct
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- Disaster waste management challenges and enabling factors for strategic planning: The case of the Beirut Port explosion. [Journal Article]Waste Manag Res. 2023 Feb 04 [Online ahead of print]WM
- Disasters occur in both developed and developing countries, generating large amounts of disaster waste including construction and demolition (C&D) waste that needs to be appropriately managed. While developed countries are capable of implementing adequate disaster waste management (DWM) strategies to facilitate their recovery processes, developing countries generally struggle to find the resource…
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- Pandemic preparedness: five minutes with . . . Katie Doores. [Journal Article]BMJ. 2023 Feb 03; 380:p287.BMJ
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- JRODOS customization for Pakistan and assessment of the consequences of a hypothetical nuclear accident. [Journal Article]J Radiol Prot. 2023 Feb 02 [Online ahead of print]JR
- Since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, decision support systems and modelling tools are utilized in response to nuclear and radiological emergencies. The Java-based Real-time On-line Decision Support System (JRODOS) is a decision support tool that can be utilised in response to an emergency in managing off-site radiological consequences. This article documents the customization and use of JRODOS f…
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- Disaster nursing and disaster preparedness: an investigation of nursing students' knowledge, competence and attitudes. [Journal Article]Nurs Manag (Harrow). 2023 Feb 02; 30(1):25-31.NM
- CONCLUSIONS: Enhancing nursing students' awareness of the importance of disaster preparedness and competence in disaster nursing can potentially save lives. Disaster nursing and disaster preparedness should be part of undergraduate nurse education curricula and nurse educators should develop innovative educational interventions on these topics.
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- Identifying the Preparedness Components for Sexual Violence in Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review. [Review]
- Background: The probability of sexual violence in areas affected by natural disasters may increase. An increase in the rate of unwanted pregnancies and subsequent intentional abortions, physical and mental injuries, and death can be the consequences of sexual violence. One of the characteristics of natural disasters is their unpredictability and ambiguity. Since decisions must be made quickly dur…
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- Managing concurrency in cyclical projects under stochastic task environments: Vaccine development projects during pandemics. [Journal Article]
- Aggressive overlapping of stochastic activities during phases of vaccine development has been critical to making effective vaccines for COVID-19 available to the public, at "pandemic" speed. In cyclical projects wherein activities can be overlapped, downstream tasks may need rework on account of having commenced prior to receiving requisite information that is only available upon completion of up…
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- Two-stage stochastic formulation for relief operations with multiple agencies in simultaneous disasters. [Journal Article]
- The increasing damage caused by disasters is a major challenge for disaster management authorities, especially in instances where simultaneous disasters affect different geographical areas. The uncertainty and chaotic conditions caused by these situations combined with the inherent complexity of collaboration between multiple stakeholders complicates delivering support for disaster victims. Decis…
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- Understanding Physical Distancing and Face Mask Use Across High-Risk African American Subgroups During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Application of Health Belief Model. [Journal Article]Health Promot Pract. 2023 Jan 29 [Online ahead of print]HP
- Physical distancing and face masks remain frontline prevention strategies due to suboptimal vaccine uptake and the highly infectious COVID-19 variants. Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by a chronic disease burden that places them at higher risk of severe COVID-19 disease. Therefore, they can greatly benefit from face mask use and physical distancing, especially if the individu…
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- Healthcare complexities during community crises: Recommendation for access to healthcare for Australians with multiple sclerosis. [Journal Article]Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2023 Jan 24; 71:104531.MS
- CONCLUSIONS: We recommend the involvement of the MS community in creating and designing disaster preparation plans, which should cater to a range of disaster types, to improve disaster preparedness in a community that is vulnerable to increasingly common community crises.
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- Measuring accessibility to public services and infrastructure criticality for disasters risk management. [Journal Article]
- Component criticality analysis of infrastructure systems has traditionally focused on physical networks rather than infrastructure services. As an example, a key objective of transport infrastructure is to ensure mobility and resilient access to public services, including for the population, service providers, and associated supply chains. We introduce a new user-centric measure for estimating in…
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- Hospital architecture in times of crisis. [Journal Article]Int Rev Psychiatry. 2023 Jan 27 [Online ahead of print]IR
- In times of crisis, such as public health emergency, military conflict or natural disaster, health systems face immense pressures. Large-scale crises continue to appear at irregular intervals and healthcare facilities should be prepared to react quickly and flexibly to the increased need for treatment and care. This paper aims to outline key concepts related to healthcare architecture during a ma…
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- European Burns Association guidelines for the management of burn mass casualty incidents within a European response plan. [Journal Article]Burns. 2022 Dec 26 [Online ahead of print]B
- CONCLUSIONS: The resulting 46 recommendations address four fields. Field 1 underlines the need for national preparedness plans and the necessary core items within such plans, including coordination and integration with an international response. Field 2 describes Burn Assessment Teams' roles, composition, training requirements, and reporting goals. Field 3 addresses the goals of specialized in-hospital triage, appropriate severity criteria, and their effects on priorities and triage. Finally, field 4 covers medical evacuations, including their timing and organization, the composition of evacuation teams and their assets, preparation, and the principles of en route care.
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- Shock Therapy - Disaster Remodelling in the NHS. [Journal Article]Br J Gen Pract. 2023 Feb; 73(727):51.BJ
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- Limitations of COVID-19 testing and case data for evidence-informed health policy and practice. [Review]
- CONCLUSIONS: This paper presents and describes steps in the testing and reporting process, with examples from a number of countries of barriers encountered in each step, all of which create an undercount of COVID-19 cases. This work raises factors to consider in COVID-19 data and provides recommendations to inform the current situation with COVID-19 as well as issues to be aware of in future pandemics.
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- Complex disaster response framework to reduce urban disaster vulnerability. [Journal Article]Sci Prog. 2023 Jan-Mar; 106(1):368504231152770.SP
- Cities are vulnerable to a range of disasters that can occur simultaneously due to their complexity. Therefore, an effective disaster response plan is needed to reduce the disaster vulnerability of cities. In particular, evacuation route management is important for reducing the losses from a disaster. Efficient disaster response can be realized by searching for suitable evacuation routes and effe…
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- Quantitative analysis of International Health Regulations Annual Reports to identify global disparities in the preparedness for radiation emergencies. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: We found major global disparities for the operational preparedness against radiation emergencies. Collaborative approaches involving the public health officials and policymakers at the regional and state levels are needed to develop additional guidance to adapt emergency preparedness plans for radiation incidents.
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- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends. [Review]
- Recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have emerged as a ubiquitous and integral part of our society. They appear in great diversity in a multiplicity of applications for economic, commercial, leisure, military and academic purposes. The drone industry has seen a sharp uptake in the last decade as a model to manufacture and deliver convergence, offering synergy by incorporating multi…
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- Emergency shelter allocation planning technology for large-scale evacuation based on quantum genetic algorithm. [Journal Article]Front Public Health. 2022; 10:1098675.FP
- Shelter allocation is one of the most important measures in urban disaster prevention and mitigation planning. Meanwhile, it is essentially a comprehensive planning problem combining resource allocation and traffic routing. A reasonable allocation scheme can avoid congestion, improve evacuation efficiency, and reduce the casualty rate. Owing to the large region and large evacuation population dem…
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- Incidence management system of the healthcare institutions for disaster management in Sri Lanka. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Coordination, communication, commanding, management of controlling the incidence and tracking of cases following outbreaks need to be improved and capacity development programmes could implement to develop the preparedness for future disasters.
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- Co-pyrolysis technology for enhancing the functionality of sewage sludge biochar and immobilizing heavy metals. [Review]Chemosphere. 2023 Mar; 317:137929.C
- Sewage sludge (SS) is a frequent and challenging issue for countries with big populations, due to its massive output, significant hazard potential, and challenging resource utilization. Pyrolysis can simultaneously realize the reduction, harmlessness and recycling of SS. Co-pyrolysis offers a wide range of potential in terms of increasing product quality and immobilizing heavy metals (HMs), thank…
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- Research on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Management: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve COVID-19 CT Image Diagnosis. [Journal Article]
- Since the start of 2020, the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been a global public health emergency, and it has caused unprecedented economic and social disaster. In order to improve the diagnosis efficiency of COVID-19 patients, a number of researchers have conducted extensive studies on applying artificial intelligence techniques to the analysis of COVID-19-related medical ima…
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- Analyzing the Disaster Preparedness Capability of Local Government Using AHP: Zhengzhou 7.20 Rainstorm Disaster. [Journal Article]
- This study aimed to identify factors influencing disaster preparedness capability, measure and compare the relative importance of evaluation indicators of preparedness capability in a rainstorm disaster, and analyze the impact of these factors on disaster preparedness so as to improve disaster preparedness capability. The evaluation model was proposed by constructing the target level (the first l…
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- Terrorist Attack in ShahCheragh, Iran: Planning for the Future. [Journal Article]Prehosp Disaster Med. 2023 Jan 16 [Online ahead of print]PD
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- An optimized modeling for in-situ stresses based on Rhino accurate modeling and large-scale transverse isotropic theory. [Journal Article]Sci Rep. 2023 Jan 13; 13(1):691.SR
- In-situ stresses are significantly important for underground mining geotechnical design and coal seam gas management in underground coal mines. Aiming at regions with geological structures, this paper proposes an in-situ stress inversion method combining Rhino precise modeling and transverse isotropy theory, and tests it near the Guodishan fault. The results show that the application of Rhino pre…
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- Disaster Preparedness in Dermatology Residency Programs. [Journal Article]Cutis. 2022 Nov; 110(5):249-251.C
- Dermatology residency programs must be prepared to address the unpredictable but seemingly inevitable impacts of natural (eg, hurricanes) and manmade (eg, threats of violence) disasters as well as widespread infectious disease (eg, the COVID-19 pandemic). However, there is a paucity of literature regarding how residency programs should prepare for and respond to these types of disasters. From the…
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