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Healthcare Disaster Prediction with IoT, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning
Published in Adarsh Garg, D. P. Goyal, Global Healthcare Disasters, 2023
Priyanka Shukla, Akanksha Sehgal, Sonia, Deepika Sherawat
Similarly, finding “hotspots” for population detection depends on time element. At a given point of time, the rescue works must know the population base before they start the rescue operation timely. Any delay in the rescue operation may have further devastating effects on vast population resulting in a humanitarian crisis. It is this valuable feature of predictive analytics which plays an important role in disaster management. Different data sources like geographic information help to locate the concentration of the population and thus to identify the priority group which is closest to the disaster point and needs immediate operation.
Principles and theories
Published in Emily Ying Yang Chan, Disaster Public Health and Older People, 2019
Hazards and disasters can generally be classified into three broad categories based on the causes, namely natural disasters, human-caused disasters and an additional subgroup of human-caused disasters known as complex emergencies. Natural disasters are disastrous events that result from hazard phenomena of natural origin, where human activities are not directly involved in triggering such events. Human-caused disasters are those triggered by human-related causes of hazards regardless of whether such events may be intentional or unintentional, such as nuclear explosion, chemical spill, terrorism, etc. While human-caused disasters include a range of involvement of human factors in the course of the events, complex emergencies are usually classified as a distinct subtype of disasters with their own distinct sets of characteristics, resulting in multifaceted humanitarian crises.
Integration of non-communicable diseases in primary health care in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
Published in Salah Hassan, Kidd Michael, Family Practice In The Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2018
Slim Slama, Gemma Lyons, Heba Fouad, Shannon Barkley, Asmus Hammerich
Moreover, the current conflicts and humanitarian crises affecting several countries in the region, and the additional burden of refugees in neighbouring countries, are challenging already stretched health systems. Consequently, WHO has undertaken a programme of work on NCDs in emergencies, including the development of a brief for emergency planners and policy makers and development of a kit to guide Member States on the essential medicines and technologies required for NCDs during a conflict or humanitarian emergency.17,29
Humanitarian interventions and psychosocial training programs
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2022
Lucia Berdondini, Jeeda Alhakim
There are still a lot to examine, assess and improve when devising training programs for humanitarian workers and as such, this is an exciting time for the institutions and the organizations that offer these programs. The field is complex, where interdisciplinary and intercultural dimensions might contribute to explain various aspects of humanitarian crisis and inform appropriate, effective and sustainable interventions. One step forward could be to enhance and coordinate more international collaborations among different institutions and agencies for the co-creation of humanitarian training models and their delivery. These collaborations should also engage in interdisciplinary research in order to maintain a critical and expansive view towards the assessment and evaluation of these models and towards the continuous development of innovative forms of training for humanitarian workers.
Meeting AT needs in humanitarian crises: The current state of provision
Published in Assistive Technology, 2021
Golnaz Whittaker, Gavin Adam Wood, Giulia Oggero, Maria Kett, Kirstin Lange
Survivors may acquire a disability through injuries sustained as a direct result of a crisis or indirectly through long-term negative impacts on infrastructure, food security (Devakumar et al., 2014), poverty, health (Khan, Amatya, Gosney, Rathore, Burkle et al., 2015a; Reinhardt et al., 2011) and displacement (Danquah et al., 2015). In addition to the growing disability rate, aging populations and higher prevalence of non-communicable diseases worldwide mean that we can expect AT needs in crisis settings to continue to grow. Humanitarian crises worsen the challenges in the environment. People might lose or damage their assistive products or live in inaccessible informal settlements as a result of displacement. In these circumstances, even those with preexisting impairments that were not previously disabling may find that they are unable to function as before (WHO, 2011).
Lessons for psychiatrists from the COVID pandemic: the need for expanded roles and additional competencies
Published in International Review of Psychiatry, 2021
Vinay K. Parekh, Karen L. Swartz
During a disaster, the time it takes to safely bring the psychiatrist and patient into the same location can limit the ability to provide fast diagnostic assessment, treatment initiation and ongoing care. Telehealth provides efficiency and scalability in providing remote assessment and direct provision of ongoing care (Hilty et al., 2018; Kannarkat et al., 2020). In the military, programs such as the Multinational Telemedicine System have already been deployed in various humanitarian crises to provide care (including mental health care) (Doarn et al., 2018). Private telemedicine companies have been deployed in environmental disasters such as after hurricanes to help provide triage (Uscher-Pines et al., 2018). These military and emergency deployments were only possible with providers that had the necessary skill base to use them.