Search for dissertations about: "disaster response"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 40 swedish dissertations containing the words disaster response.
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1. Disaster response for recovery : survivors experiences, and the use of disaster radio to promote health after natural disasters
Abstract : Disasters occur all over the world, and affect a rising number of people. The health effects of natural disasters depend on several factors present before, during, and after a disaster event. However, there is only limited knowledge of survivors experiences, needs, and health after natural disasters. READ MORE
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2. Improving disaster response evaluations : Supporting advances in disaster risk management through the enhancement of response evaluation usefulness
Abstract : Future disasters or crises are difficult to predict and therefore hard to prepare for. However, while a specific event might not have happened, it can be simulated in an exercise. READ MORE
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3. Centralized Disaster Management Collaboration in Turkey
Abstract : Following unprecedented earthquakes in 1999, highly centralized Turkey initiated reforms that aimed to improve disaster management collaboration and to empower local authorities. In 2011, two earthquakes hit the country anew affecting the city of Van and town of Erciş in Turkey’s southeast. READ MORE
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4. Disaster response and preparedness : Focus on hospital incident command groups and emergency department registered nurses
Abstract : Background: While disasters per definition are rare, incidents that cause mass casualties that threaten to overwhelm its limited resources are an ever-present risk. Disaster medicine is a specific discipline of medicine dedicated to providing adequate health care to patients of major incidents through the development of preventive-, preparedness-, response and recovery interventions. READ MORE
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5. Improving emergency and disaster response management performance : A problem-solving perspective
Abstract : The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to investigate how collective emergency and disaster response management performance can be further improved. Based on four studies, this research contributes with knowledge in two areas.First, collective processes that might improve response management are investigated. READ MORE