Disasters Preparedness and Emergency Response: Prevention, Surveillance and Mitigation Planning

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Public health and preventive medicine; alcohol; alternative care facilities; basic life support; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; chest recoil; community volunteerism; contact tracing; cortisol; COVID-19; crisis management; disaster; disaster legislation; disaster management; disaster volunteer group; disasters; education; emergencies; emergency medical services; emergency preparedness; ethanol; ethics; feedback device; first aid; flexible surge capacity; flood; flood early warning; flood response; geo-AI; geographic information system; governance and planning; health emergency; health geomatics; high-fidelity simulation; hospital preparedness; information and communication technology; Internet of Things; KOS-B; low-fidelity simulation; machine learning; major incidents and disasters; management; mannequin; medical simulation; motivation; nursing; pandemic; pedestrians; preparedness; psychology; public education; public health; quality; resilience; resources management; risk management; safety; Saudi Arabia; security; simulation; skill retention; smart disaster management system; spatial filtering; stress; stress appraisal questionnaire; stressors; surge capacity; sustainability; traffic accidents
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication

 This Special Issue welcomes research papers on new approaches that have been applied or are under development to improve preparedness and emergency response. We especially encourage the submission of inter-disciplinary and crosscutting research. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts that focus on various types of disasters, disaster and emergency research, and on policy or management solutions at multiple scales.