Community resilience has been addressed across multiple disciplines including
environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology, and economics. Interest in …

BACKGROUND This article provides consensus suggestions for expanding critical care
surge capacity and extension of critical care service capabilities in disasters or pandemics. It …

Hospital systems play a critical role in treating injuries during disaster emergency
responses. Simultaneously, natural disasters hinder their ability to operate at full capacity …

The increasing number of external threats from environmental and human-caused hazards
requires that emergency health care systems, including healthcare facilities, support …

Modeling the recovery process of a community's infrastructure after the occurrence of
extreme events is now at the forefront of research. Estimating post-disaster recovery of either …

Following a major disaster, hospitals must promptly rearrange their organization and
treatment procedures to deal with the sudden arrival of a high number of injured people to …

Earthquakes injure millions and simultaneously disrupt the infrastructure to protect them.
This perspective argues that the current post-disaster investigation paradigm is insufficient to …

In the aftermath of earthquakes, hospitals serve the critical role of treating casualties. In
many cases, the key components of a hospital (ie, the building, staff, medicine inventory …

Infrastructure systems—sometimes referred to as critical infrastructure or lifelines—provide
services such as energy, water, sanitation, transportation, and communications that are …

Hospital emergency departments are highly important systems and treat injured people
during earthquakes. It is essential that their functionality is maintained during or recovered …