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Criteria for the Assessment of Disaster Preparedness-II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Jan de Boer
Jan de Boer*
Affiliation:
Free University of Amsterdam Medical School; The Netherlands
*
Free University Hospital, PO Box 7057,1007 MB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

By defining the chain of medical care and the capacities of the successive phases within this chain, an attempt is made to analyze and grade the determinants of these capacities. In this way, calculations that indicate overall disaster preparedness can be expressed in a figure ranging from 1–5. The capacity of the system is taken as the lowest score obtained for the components of the system. The methodology used for this assessment of pre-paredness is described and an example is used to show the efficacy of this methodology.

Keywords

assessmentcapacity to provide carechain of medical caredisasterdisaster preparednessindexmedical organizationorganizational systemsphase of medical caretransportationtriage
Type
Theoretical Discussion
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 13 - 16
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1997

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References

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