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PubMed1999

Mitigation emerges as major strategy for reducing losses caused by natural disasters. Board of Natural Disasters.

The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, a United Nations program for the 1990s, focused attention on the increasing losses caused by natural hazards and promoted actions to reduce their impacts. During this period in the United States, disaster managers and other officials increased emphasis on mitigation relative to response and recovery, especially in programs of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Many other nations and international organizations undertook similar efforts. Beyond the Decade, efforts should focus on improving risk assessments; implementing mitigation strategies; improving technologies supporting warnings and the dissemination of, and response to, warnings; improving the basis for natural disaster insurance; and assisting developing nations.

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PubMed1999

Hurricane Georges and New Orleans hospitals: preparing for killer storm--Part II.

In last month's issue, in Part I, we described the experiences of three New Orleans, LA, hospitals in preparing for and coping with one of the worst potential storms in years. As will be seen, each of the three hospitals featured in Part II faced problems that were both foreseen and unforeseen--some of which required considerable ingenuity to solve, requiring rethinking of prior policies.

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Current extent of disasters in Africa.

The people oFf Africa are exposed to a wide range of disasters that seriously have aggravated the Continent's economic situation. Economic losses and human sufferings from drought, desertification, locust infestation, infectious diseases, epidemics, and armed conflicts are the dominant disasters that the people in the African countries face, and they have rendered the population utterly vulnerable. Disasters have aggravated Africa's economic situation. The cumulative effect of disasters include loss of property, injury, death, mounting food import bills, health hazards, environmental degradation, backward economic development, displaced people, refugees, and nutritional deficiency. Today, 175 million Africans out of a total population of 744 million people (23.5%) are suffering from chronic hunger; this is an increase of 50% from 25 years ago. In many African countries, up to half of the population suffers from absolute poverty. It is projected that Africa will be the only Continent to continue with the current level of poverty for another decade.

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Utilization of military support in the response to hurricane Marilyn: implications for future military-civilian cooperation.

INTRODUCTION: The past decade has been a period of evolution for the Federal disaster response system within the United States. Two domestic hurricanes were pivotal events that influenced the methods used for organizing Federal disaster assistance. The lessons of Hurricane Hugo (1989) and Hurricane Andrew (1992) were incorporated into the successful response to Hurricane Marilyn in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995. Following each of these storms, the Department of Defense was a major component of the response by the health sector. Despite progress in many areas, lack of clear communication between military and civilian managers and confusion among those requesting Department of Defense health resources may remain as obstacles to rapid response. METHODS: This discussion is based on an unpublished case report utilizing interviews with military and civilian managers involved in the Hurricane Marilyn response. RESULTS: The findings suggest that out-of-channel pathways normally utilized in the warning and emergency phase of the response remained operational after more formal civilian-military communication pathways and local assessment capability had been established. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that delays may be avoided if the system in place was to make all active pathways for the request and validation of military resources visible to the designated Federal managers located within the area of operations.

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PubMed1998

After the flood.

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PubMed1999

[The prediction of the magnitude and structure of the health losses in the catastrophic flooding of the area of a large city].

Using the developed methodological approaches a multivariant forecast has been worked out of a possible magnitude and structure of sanitary losses in a disastrous flood in the territory of a large city. It is shown that forecast-related materials can become the basis on which preparation might be initiated of force and means of the health system towards work under such conditions, with its functioning being ensured under swiftly changing conditions of an emergency situation.

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PubMed1999

Beef up your information security with the new HIPAA-mandated standards.

Beef up information security using HIPAA standards. This month, the federal Department of Health and Human Services will release the final standards for information security mandated by the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). To comply with HIPAA, you must perform an applications and data criticality analysis and develop a data backup plan, a disaster recovery plan, and an emergency mode operation plan.

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