Background: Hospitals play a critical role in providing communities with essential medical
care during disasters. Objectives: In this article, the key components and recommended …

Introduction: Recent disasters emphasize the need for disaster risk mitigation in the health
sector. A lack of standardized tools to assess hospital disaster preparedness hinders the …

IntroductionDespite emphasis by disaster experts on the importance of disaster
preparedness, disaster management in Yemen has attracted only a little attention. Most of …

Background: Considering the uncontrollable occurrence of unexpected events and disasters
around the world and Iran, paying attention to the readiness of hospitals, as the most …

Background: Disasters are increasing all over the world. Iran, is one of the high-risk
countries in this regard; so it is unavoidable to prepare hospitals as vital centers when …

Disasters occur rarely but have significant adverse consequences when they do. Recent
statistics suggest that millions of lives and billions of US dollars have been lost in the last …

Background: A hospital emergency incident command system is one of the most reliable and
popular organizational methods for disaster and emergency management. Objectives: The …

Objective Early discharge of some in-patients is the effective measure to create hospital
surge capacity in disasters. However, some of these patients may need to post-discharge …

ObjectivePublic education and training that focus on appropriate knowledge, attitudes, and
practices have had a crucial role in preparedness. The aim of this study was to assess …

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe and compare almost all the
components of disaster preparedness between private and government hospitals in the …