The devastating 2017 Puebla quake provides an opportunity to assess how citizens perceive and use the Mexico City earthquake early warning system.

Massive amounts of data and information are exchanged during the response phase disaster management. A large body contemporary research has indicated that most these have severe quality related concerns, meaning they may not be suitable for critical decision-making. The current paper addresses issues by identifying how certain features function, to support specific, naturalistic decision-making processes response. These functions used revise consolidate pre-existing definitions quality, use...

The Inverse Care Law is principally concerned with the effect of market forces on health care which create inequities in access to services through privileging individuals who possess forms social capital that are valued within settings. fields disaster risk reduction need consider ways inequities, driven by economic and policy as well institutional decision-making, vulnerabilities prior a disaster, then magnified post entrenched structural differences resources. Drawing key principles Law,...

Purpose There has been a lack of meaningful information systems architecture, which comprehensively conceptualise the essential components and functionality an system for fire emergency response addressing needs different job roles. The purpose this paper is to propose comprehensive architecture would best support four key firefighter Design/methodology/approach study built on outcomes two previous preliminary studies human-computer interaction core Scenario-based action research was...

Abstract Background Children's unhappy visits to the dentist can negatively impact lifelong oral health. A possible intervention is enhance empathy in child patient–dental practitioner relationship through communication. The present paper presents a new instrument, S urvey of nxiety and I nformation for D entists ( SAID ), which targets children's dental anxiety, coping preferences neglect, offers children change request information engage treatment planning. Method Five focus groups pilot...

Men who are incarcerated have higher morbidity rates than the general U.S. population and upon release most rely on public sector to get their medical needs met. However, little is known about health care needs, service utilization patterns, costs of providing primary released inmates in an ambulatory setting. Using data from a center for uninsured men, profiles use over 12-month period described men newly prison (n=221). Health were measured by diagnosis consultation rates. The results show...

Risk evaluation is an effective way to reduce the impacts of natural hazards and it plays increasingly important role in emergency management. Traditional methods assessing risks mainly utilize Geographic Information System (GIS) get risk map, information diffusion method (IDM) deal with incomplete data sets. However, there are few papers discuss uncertainty integrated consider dynamic under time dimension. The model proposed this study combines variable fuzzy set theory (VFS-IDM) solve...

Earthquake-related behaviors in Mexico and Japan have highlighted the need to better understand responses demanding alerting scenarios. Both countries appear benefitted from an established early earthquake warning system for several years. However, recent alert documented these settings been unlikely protect residents death or severe injury. This represents a gap between investments effectiveness which, among other implications, could result very large numbers of avoidable injuries even...

Purpose – Emergency management groups aiming to address community resilience work with complex systems which consist of multiple interacting dynamics. The purpose this paper is help ensure that information displayed in a way supports strategic performance, longer term challenges faced by these groups. Design/methodology/approach Ten professional emergency managers completed an online simulation complex, related tasks their normal working lives. They responded either table-or diagram-based...

Emergency management controllers throughout the developed world use various information technologies to help them manage emergencies. These emergencies can evolve rapidly, meaning that efficient is needed minimize a range of uncertainties. Interviews with 12 emergency operation center controllers, from diverse areas New Zealand, were analyzed using grounded theory approach. Results this analysis suggested each uses one or more software options response-related information, such as: hazard...

In 2013 a new collaborative center was established in Wellington, New Zealand to focus on integrating resilience research with the region’s community disaster strategy. An earlier study parties this had indicated that researcher and practitioner groups were divided by attention their own immediate knowledge skills, but agreed there need maximize benefits amongst regional population. action workshop of researchers practitioners used visual logic model pragmatic improving resilience. The...

This research analysed strong opinions, held by emergency management practitioners and researchers, about developing a regional framework of community resilience indicators. A group another group, were planning an International Centre Excellence, focused on disaster in W ellington, N ew Z ealand. Five participants from each the researcher practitioner groups volunteered to better identify opinion factors among these groups, using Q ‐methodology. One perspective supporting complicated...

This article looks at using diagrams to help conceptualize and model conservation strategies. Diagrams can focus attention within a large number of components interrelationships without losing sight the surrounding ecosystem. A brief summary strategic diagram project for New Zealand's Department Conservation is followed by an analysis user experiences. demonstrates potential overcome some pitfalls text-based language rules. The discussion stresses importance presenting socially meaningful...

This study examined the interplay between perceived feedback (PF), subjective wellbeing (SWB), and students' sense of belonging to school (SBS). School is a key factor for decisions regarding academic studies, usually impacted by PF. The current explored whether SWB mediates established relationship PF SBS.

Abstract Cascading disasters progress from a triggering disaster event to diverse range of consequent disasters. Disasters following the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 highlight how these cascades also multiple geographical locations. However, very low frequency events means their analysis has usually excluded base-rate data. This common practice risks overestimating future likelihoods. A simplified approach base-rates for less catastrophic cascades, rule Occam’s razor, may help develop...

COVID-19 scenarios were run using an epidemiological mathematical model (system dynamics model) and counterfactual analysis to simulate the impacts of different control containment measures on cumulative infections deaths in Bangladesh Pakistan. The simulations based national-level data concerning vaccination level, hospital capacity, other factors, from World Health Organization, Bank, Our Data web portal. These added death government agencies covering period 18 March 2020 28 February 2022....