Health Impacts of Floods
Disaster Response Systems In C ...
Emergency services personnel respond and react to emergencies on a daily basis. While the emergency may be a crisis to those involved, responders are ...
Disaster Category Classificatio ...
One of the major current challenges in the field of disaster data is to overcome the limitations induced by the lack of clear standards and definition ...
Disease, Disaster and Despair’? ...
Background: In high-income nations mainstream television news remains an important source of information about both general health issues and low- an ...
Displaced New Orleans Residents ...
This article introduces us to the complexities of conducting social scientific research in a major urban disaster zone and reports on results from th ...
Guidelines for the management o ...
Most partial-thickness burns in Europe and the United States are managed by non-burns specialists who do not treat burns on a regular basis. To achie ...
Drills and exercises: the way t ...
Catastrophes, natural or man-made, are very rare events in the life of hospitals in the developed world. None of the hospitals that coped with well ...
Health Impacts of Floods
Introduction: Floods are the most common hazard to cause disasters and have led to extensive morbidity and mortality throughout the world. The impact ...
Earthquakes and Children: The R ...
The 2008 Sichuan Province earthquake and 2005 Pakistan earthquake are examples of natural disasters that took an unimaginable toll on children. In su ...
Disaster Risk and Poverty in La ...
Document prepared for the ISDR/RBLAC Research Project on Disaster Risk and Poverty. This document is part of the Latin American contribution to the Gl ...
Effect of Hospital Staff Surge ...
Objectives: To assess current medical staffing levels within the Hospital Referral System in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality, South A ...
Effectiveness of a hospital-wid ...
Background Hand hygiene prevents cross infection in hospitals, but compliance with recommended instructions is commonly poor. We attempted to promot ...
On Shaky Ground: The Effects of ...
The devastating consequences of large natural disasters on socioeconomic systems are evident to all. Yet, little is really known about the magnitude o ...
EMPLOYMENT AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT ...
We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcome ...
Economic Analysis of Linking Op ...
Operating room (OR) scheduling information systems can decrease perioperative labor costs. Material management information systems can decrease peri ...
Evacuation and Return of Vietna ...
Hurricane Katrina struck near New Orleans on August 29, 2005, and resulted in the collapse of the federal protective levee system and the flooding of ...
Evidence for perinatal and chil ...
Background: It is important that healthcare provided in crisis settings is based on the best available research evidence. We reviewed guidelines for ...
Exercises in Emergency Prepared ...
Health professionals in community settings are generally unprepared for disasters. From 2006 to 2008 the California Statewide Area Health Education ...
Expanding the Health Informatio ...
The health information management (HIM) professional is strategically placed to manage information within the public health arena. As managers of info ...
Future Connectivity for Disaste ...
Objective—The goal of this paper is to identify strategies for connectivity that will optimize point-of-care testing (POCT) organized as small-world ...
Genitourinary system trauma aft ...
Background: Natural disasters, especially earthquakes, result in many health problems all over the world, of which urological injuries should not be ...
The Revolution in Hospital Man ...
Five healthcare systems that have either won the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in Health Care or been documented in extensive case studies ...
User fees at a public hospital ...
User-fee programs have been introduced at health care facilities in many developing countries. Difficulties have been encountered, however, especiall ...
HEALTH CARE IN TRANSITION: DIR ...
This book should be read by all who are seriously interested in the problems of health care in the 1970s. Mrs. Somers covers a highly complex topic ...
Hurricanes and child health: l ...
A hurricane is a large rotating storm with a central area of very low pressure and strong winds greater than 74 mph (118 km/h). 1 The hurricane is ...
Impact of a Comprehensive Heart ...
Objectives. To assess the impact of a comprehensive heart failure management program, functional status, hospital readmission rate and estimated hos ...