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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Nuclear plant emergency preparedness in Russia.

30 Oct 2009 An international team of experts conducted a detailed operational review at the Volgodonsk nuclear power plant. The review was the first mission by an International Atomic Energy Agency Operational Safety Review Team to Russia in over a decade. The ... Read more...

Surge capacity volunteer perspectives on a field training exercise specifically designed to emphasize likely roles during a disaster response.

30 Oct 2009 Experience gained from involvement in a number of emergency response activities since September 2001 in Texas indicated that the likely roles of statewide medical reserve corps units typically included aspects such as crowd control, registration and ... Read more...

'When the city is a great field hospital': the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response.

29 Sep 2009 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To describe and analyse the nurses' role in responding to the influenza epidemic in New York City in 1918. BACKGROUND: Today the world is facing the threat of pandemic avian influenza and there is renewed interest in lessons ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Disaster Planning'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Nuclear plant emergency preparedness in Russia. 30 Oct 2009
• Surge capacity volunteer perspectives on a field training exercise specifically designed to emphasize likely roles during a disaster response. 30 Oct 2009
• Philippines struggles to recover from typhoons. 29 Oct 2009
• IOM offers new guidance in crisis care. 19 Oct 2009
• Medical relief efforts in Sumatra and Pacific islands are stepped up. 4 Oct 2009
• 'When the city is a great field hospital': the influenza pandemic of 1918 and the New York city nursing response. 29 Sep 2009
• Kids and the flu. 29 Sep 2009
• Improvements in disaster planning and directions for nursing management. 29 Sep 2009
• Pandemic influenza and community preparedness. 29 Sep 2009
• Small islands and pandemic influenza: potential benefits and limitations of travel volume reduction as a border control measure. 27 Sep 2009
• Preparing for forecastable disasters. Interview by Cheryl A. Thompson. 30 Aug 2009
• Nothing to sneeze at. 30 Aug 2009
• Nursing ethics in the new millennium. 30 Aug 2009
• Disaster preparedness of households with special needs in southeastern Pennsylvania. 30 Aug 2009
• Creation of inpatient capacity during a major hospital relocation: lessons for disaster planning. 30 Aug 2009
• Experience with mass casualties in a subcontinent earthquake. 30 Aug 2009
• USPHS Commissioned Corps: a global emergency preparedness and response asset. 30 Aug 2009
• Effects on health of volunteers deployed during a disaster. 30 Aug 2009
• [Electronic emergency preparedness plans in Norwegian out-of-hours centres] 25 Aug 2009
• H1N1 influenza, public health preparedness, and health care reform. 25 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Disaster Planning'

Definition: Procedures outlined for the care of casualties and the maintenance of services in disasters.

Descriptor UI: D004189

Alternative terms: Disaster Planning; Planning, Disaster; Disaster Relief Planning; Disaster Relief Plannings; Planning, Disaster Relief; Plannings, Disaster Relief; Relief Planning, Disaster; Relief Plannings, Disaster;

Related Mesh Headings: Civil Defense;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; organization & administration; standards; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: N06.230.100.035;

History Note: 78

Technical Notes: specify disaster (IM) if pertinent; specify geog if pertinent