Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style: Executive Summary

1999 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Knut Ole Sundnes
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Executive Summary ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Utstein Style

Disasters always have been a part of life, whether caused by unavoidable natural events or by avoidable, man-made events. Being rendered helpless by such events has caused fear and concern in all periods of history. To some extent, a disaster is expected, but there are varying degrees of uncertainty as to how and when it will occur. The occurrence of a disaster creates varying degrees of chaos combined with a mismatch between resources and needs. Therefore, in order to restore an affected society back to its pre-event status requires extraordinary efforts.

Principles of Disaster Management Lesson 14. Criteria for Assessing a Program

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred C. Cuny
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Disaster Medicine ◽  
Program Execution ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
World Association ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Utstein Style

AbstractThis lesson examines mechanisms that can be used for the evaluation of a program or project. The principal concern raised is whether the project has met its stated goals and objectives and whether the project has resulted in producing benefits to the affected society. Short-term (immediate) and long-term (developmental) contributions are discussed. The importance of projects contributing to increasing the absorbing capacity of the affected community for the next event is stressed. Twelve problems commonly encountered in program execution are defined. Optimal management attempts to identify potential pitfalls in advance, designing and implementing mechanisms to avoid them, and to deal with them if they should become manifest. Simply meeting the goals and objectives of the sponsoring organization is inadequate, as all responses must be coordinated and approved by the national coordinating agency. Thus, not only is the effectiveness of the project in meeting the defined goals and objectives important, but the project must be assessed in terms of the overall impact of the project on the society. Reference is made to using the structure provided by the Health Disaster Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style as promulgated by the Task Force on Quality Control of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine and the Nordic Society of Disaster Medicine.

scholarly journals (A66) Integration of Psycho-Social Social Support and Mental Health Services in to National Disaster Management Guidelines

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s18-s18
Author(s):  
J.K. Christy
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Support ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
National Disaster

Integration of Psycho-social Social Support and Mental Health Services in to National Disaster Management Guidelines India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to a large number of natural as well as man-made disasters and also a high risk country for disasters due to expanding population, urbanization and industrialisation, development within high-risk zones, environmental degradation and climate changes. The creation of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) in 2005, as the apex body for disaster management, has brought out a paradigm shift in the area of disaster management. One of the important mandate of NDMA is to issue National Disaster Management Guidelines (NDMG) to the ministries/ departments to assist them to formulate their respective Disaster Management (DM) plans. In this direction NDMA has issued number of NDMG on different themes to provide basis of preparation of DM plans at different levels. There are policies & guidelines on Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services (PSSMHS) in disasters at the international level in the form of Inter Agency Standing Committee guidelines (IASC) which advocates PSSMHS in disasters. In India there was no such policy which streamlines the Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services in Disasters. During preparation of various National Disaster Management Guidelines, one remarkable factor noticed was the need for psycho-social care, subsequently preparation of NDMG on Medical Preparedness and Mass Causality Management brought out an overwhelming consensus to formulate a separate NDMG for PSSMHS. In order to translate the critical need for psycho-social care and support into guidelines, NDMA adopted a mission-mode approach for integrating PSSMHS in disaster response by involving participatory and multi step methodology to formulate NDMG on Psycho-social Support and Mental Health Services in Disasters.

The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and Tsunami of 2004: The Hazards, Events, and Damage

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 355-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrice A. Kohl ◽  
Ann P. O'Rourke ◽  
Dana L. Schmidman ◽  
Wendy A. Dopkin ◽  
Marvin L. Birnbaum
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Management Guidelines ◽  
Practice Standards ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Available Information ◽  
Andaman Earthquake ◽  
Utstein Style

AbstractThe Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake and subsequent Asian Tsunami of 26 December 2004 affected multiple countries in the Indian Ocean and beyond, creating disasters of a scale unprecedented in recorded history. Using the Conceptual Framework and terminology described in the Disaster Health Management: Guidelines for Evaluation and Research in the Utstein Style, the hazard, events, and damage associated with the Earthquake and Tsunami are described. Many gaps in the available information regarding this event are present. Standardized indicators and reporting criteria are necessary for research on future disasters and the development of best practice standards internationally.

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