| The Role of Law in Public Health Preparedness: Opportunities and Challenges. | Summary
In-person interviews with key informants [144 respondents]- state officials and officials in 2-3 local agencies- representatives from state medical and hospital associations, public health advocacy groups, … |
| The effectiveness of a disaster training programme for healthcare workers in Greece. | Summary
Source population: 224 healthcare workers in a public hospital [mix of senior and junior staff]. Final study population: 56 participants -- Power and sample size calculations showed that 46 elements were required in order to have a 90% chance of detecting as significant (at the 5% level) an absolute increase in score equal to 7%.The comparison group that was used in order to compare their results with the intervention group results included 35 individuals who did not take part in the and were willing to complete the questionnaire. |
| Knowledge, Experiences and Training Needs of Health Professionals about Disaster Preparedness and Response in Southwest Ethiopia: a cross sectional study. | Summary
Data were collected using a structured questionnaire which was developed by the investigators after reviewing the relevant literature in the field An institution based cross-sectional survey was conducted in 9 randomly selected districts out of the total of 18. |
| A Socio-Physical Approach to Systemic Risk Reduction in Emergency Response and Preparedness. | Summary
University case-study |
| Disaster spread simulation and rescue time optimization in a resource network. | Summary
Simulation |
| Health worker and policy-maker perspectives on use of intramuscular artesunate for pre-referral and definitive treatment of severe malaria at health posts in Ethiopia. | Summary
In-depth interviews were held with 101 individuals including health workers, malaria focal persons, and Regional Health Bureaus from Oromia and southern nations, nationalities, and peoples’ region, as well as participants from the Federal Ministry of Health and development partners |
| A Review of Critical Infrastructure Interdependency Simulation and Modelling for the Caribbean. | Summary
Review of tools such us: CIPDSS, HAZUS, I2Sim/DR-NEP, and ESRI Sim . |
| Physical and mental health status of soldiers responding to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. | Summary
The team distributed 1,187 questionnaires to a cohort of soldiers.The respondents were encouraged to answer as many questions as they liked. |
| The impact of an online interprofessional course in disaster management competency and attitude towards interprofessional learning. | Summary
The sample included undergraduate students in health and allied fields from five large, urban educational institutions. |
| Development, initial reliability and validity testing of an observational tool for assessing technical skills of operating room nurses. | Summary
Twenty trainee OR nurses and two senior OR trainer nurses took part in the studyOn completion of the procedure, trainees also completed ICATS-N to rate their own performance and received feedback on their performance from thetrainer. |
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