MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a systematic review of publications and gray
literatures regarding to strategies for education of DRR conducted in December 2016 …

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 …

Background: Natural and man-made disasters affect people, communities, and health
systems. Nurses play a key role in the health system and must be prepared for appropriate …

Background Shortage of specialized healthcare volunteers is a major challenge during
disasters and one solution could be pre-identified healthcare volunteers. This study aimed to …

BACKGROUND Planning for mass critical care (MCC) in resource-poor or constrained
settings has been largely ignored, despite their large populations that are prone to suffer …

During a disaster, all hospitals are expected to function as “social critical institutions” that
protect the lives and health of people. In recent disasters, numerous hospitals were …

Crossing the flood on foot is one of the two major causes of flood-related death. This study
was aimed to determine risk factors associated with risky behavior of crossing the flood on …

There are numerous gaps in hospital-disaster-preparedness in developing countries.
Presently, there are no widely accepted tools to assess preparedness in Sri Lankan …

Background Hospital administrators play a key role in the effective management of surge
capacity in disasters, but there is little information available about the characteristics …

Objective: In this article, we describe the actions taken by emergency medical service (EMS)
after the earthquake in Kermanshah, Varzaghan, and Bam and compared the strengths and …