Meteorological data show that disastrous floods are increasingly frequent and more severe
in recent years, perhaps due to climatic changes such as global warming. During and after a …

Literature on earthquake impact on hospital admissions is lacking, particularly in low-
resource settings. Our aim was to study the pattern of admissions before and after the 2015 …

DISEASE PATTERN IN EARTHQUAKE AFFECTED AREAS OF PAKISTAN: DATA FROM
KAGHAN VALLEY Page 1 J Ayub Med Coll Abbottabad 2010;22(3) http://www.ayubmed.edu.pk/JAMC/PAST/22-3/Nasir.pdf …

Simulation-based medical education can be an effective method for learning about rare and
critical conditions. It has been used with trainees to teach them how to handle difficult and …

Resilient hospitals are essential to reduce the human impact of disasters. The evidence on
the disaster impact on hospitals is limited, and research on hospital resilience is mostly from …

In the last decade, natural disasters such as the Indonesian tsunami of 2004, Hurricane
Katrina in 2004, and the Pakistani earthquake of 2005 have brought attention to the …

Literature on earthquake impact on hospital admissions is lacking, particularly in low-
resource settings. Our aim was to study the pattern of admissions before and after the 2015 …

Aim: To identify the health problems following tsunamis in order to guide medical response.
Methods and materials: Four databases (Medline, Global Health, Web of Science …

Disasters have been described as “events of sufficient scale, asset depletion, or numbers of
victims to overwhelm medical resources”[1] or as “a serious disruption of the functioning of a …