Emergency Response and Crisis Management

This paper explores the strategic importance of information systems for managing such crises as the H1N1 outbreak and the Haiti earthquake in the healthcare service chain. The paper synthesizes the literature on crisis management and information systems for emergency response and draws some key lessons for healthcare service chains. The paper illustrates these lessons by using data from an empirical case study in the region of Crete in Greece. The author concludes by discussing some future directions in managing crises in the healthcare service chain, including the importance of distributive, adaptive crisis management through new technologies like mashups.

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Bring Your First Aid Kit: An Unannounced Mock Drill

The Journal of School Nursing ◽

10.1177/10598405020180030901 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 174-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Theresa Wolf Grant

Keyword(s):

Natural Disasters ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

School Safety ◽

Disaster Preparedness ◽

Well Being ◽

September 11 ◽

First Aid ◽

School Nurses ◽

New Challenges

Disaster preparedness has taken on new significance in our country since September 11. School nurses, advocates for school safety, must address new challenges in crisis management and emergency response. Our nation’s schools remain relatively safe places, yet well-known events in the last few years dictate the need for movement from attitudes of complacency and denial toward vigilance. Natural disasters, accidents, and violence can threaten the well-being and lives of students and staff, and in a few short minutes a peaceful learning environment can change into one of chaos with multiple casualties. Although schoolwide drills for events such as tornadoes, explosions, and shootings remain imperative, they do little to prepare the school nurse for her role in immediate response. Staging an unannounced mock disaster at a districtwide nurse meeting is one way to ensure a higher level of preparedness. It also acknowledges the legitimate concerns of crisis competency among school nurses who are often and understandably the most trusted first responders to health crises on campus.

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Designing for Collective Intelligence and Community Resilience on Social Networks

Human Computation ◽

10.15346/hc.v8i2.116 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 15-32

Author(s):

Jon Chamberlain ◽

Benjamin Turpin ◽

Maged Ali ◽

Kakia Chatsiou ◽

Kirsty O'Callaghan

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Collective Intelligence ◽

Community Action ◽

Online Collaboration ◽

Social Connections ◽

Working Together ◽

Design Systems ◽

New Form

The popularity and ubiquity of social networks has enabled a new form of decentralised online collaboration: groups of users gathering around a central theme and working together to solve problems, complete tasks and develop social connections. Groups that display such `organic collaboration' have been shown to solve tasks quicker and more accurately than other methods of crowdsourcing. They can also enable community action and resilience in response to different events, from casual requests to emergency response and crisis management. However, engaging such groups through formal agencies risks disconnect and disengagement by destabilising motivational structures. This paper explores case studies of this phenomenon, reviews models of motivation that can help design systems to harness these groups and proposes a framework for lightweight engagement using existing platforms and social networks.

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Crisis management

10.1093/med/9780199688418.003.0005_update_001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Shane Winser ◽

Chris Johnson ◽

Kristina Birch ◽

Rose Drew ◽

Peter Harvey ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Sexual Assault ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Missing Persons ◽

Emergency Response Plan ◽

Injured Person ◽

Scene Management ◽

Medical Crisis ◽

Response Plan

Medical crisis management - Emergency response plan - Missing persons - Scene management - Evacuation - Moving an injured person - Repatriation - Telemedicine and communications - Sexual assault - Death on an expedition

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Special Issue on Crisis Management and Recovery Following Tokyo Metropolitan Near Field Earthquake Disaster

Journal of Disaster Research ◽

10.20965/jdr.2012.p0125 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 125-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Haruo Hayashi ◽

Keiko Tamura ◽

Munenari Inoguchi

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Metropolitan Area ◽

Tokyo Bay ◽

Economic Losses ◽

Earthquake Disaster ◽

Tokyo Metropolitan ◽

Tokyo Metropolitan Area ◽

Special Project

It is expected that Tokyo Metropolitan area and her vicinity may be jolted by a devastating earthquake with a 70% chance for the next 30 years. The worstcase scenario for Tokyo Metropolitan earthquake is a M7.3 earthquake beneath northern Tokyo Bay. According to the Central Disaster Prevention Council, A total of 12,000 people will be dead and economic losses will exceed 112 trillion yen. Areas with a seismic intensity of JMA 6 – and more will include Tokyo, Chiba, Saitama, and Kanagawa, resulting in 25 million victims – 20% of Japan’s total population. No country has not experienced such a large-scale earthquake in recorded history, but it does not mean such a disaster will not occur. In order to cope with such an unprecedented disaster, we must face and solve a lot of new problems in addition to all of existing problems appeared in the past disasters. Thus it is mandatory to take a holistic approach to implement effectively and seamlessly emergency response, relief, and long-term recovery. With the severity of possible consequences due to this earthquake, a special project, entitled as “Special Project for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation in Tokyo Metropolitan Area” (2007-2011), is commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT), This special project consists of three subprojects; Seismology, Earthquake Engineering, and Crisis Management and Recovery. This subproject considers Tokyo Metropolitan Earthquake as a national crisis occurred in the Tokyo metropolitan area. All the available knowledge of disaster researchers should be gathered from nationwide, including both emergency response and long-term recovery to minimize damage and losses. This project examines measures for improving the capacity for the people from disaster management organizations to react to crisis and help rebuilding life recovery of disaster victims. An information-sharing platform will be proposed to comprehensively manage individual disaster response and recovery measures. “Training and exercise systems” will be introduced to empower local capacity to mitigate and recover from disaster by integrating all of the project achievements among stakeholders. The final goal of this project is to make ourselves prepared for help the anticipated 25 million victims at most due to Tokyo Metropolitan earthquake. In this issue of JDR, we will introduce 10 papers from the subproject on Crisis Management and Recovery as a part of the achievements of this subproject for the last five years.

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Introducing a Fragmentation Perspective on Coordination in Crisis Management

Organization Studies ◽

10.1177/0170840617717095 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (11) ◽

pp. 1521-1546 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Jeroen Wolbers ◽

Kees Boersma ◽

Peter Groenewegen

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Emergency Management ◽

Field Study ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Management Practice ◽

Fire Department ◽

Fast Response ◽

Complete Understanding ◽

Site Field

Coordination theories are characterized primarily by a focus on integration, in which coordination is aimed at achieving a coherent and unified set of actions. However, in the extreme settings in which fast-response organizations operate, achieving integration is often challenging. In this study we employ a fragmentation perspective to show that dealing with ambiguity and discontinuity is not only inevitable for these organizations, it is a key characteristic of coordinating. We undertook an inductive, qualitative field study on how officers in command from the fire department, medical services, and police coordinate during emergency response operations. Our data are based on a four-year multi-site field study of 40 emergency management exercises in the Netherlands, combined with 56 retrospective interviews. Our inductive analysis of this data shows that officers use three coordination practices to deal with ambiguity and discontinuity: working around procedures, delegating tasks, and demarcating expertise. We theorize our findings by showing how these practices lead to conditions in which fragmentation can become an effective method of coordination. In doing so, we provide a more complete understanding of the process of coordinating in fast-response settings that will benefit both crisis management practice and organizational theory.

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Civil security: pluralism of understanding

Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Pravo ◽

10.34079/2226-3047-2020-10-19-68-73 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (19) ◽

pp. 68-73

Author(s):

Denis Tihomirov ◽

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

National Security ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Response ◽

Civil Defense ◽

Public Security ◽

The European Union ◽

Legal Research ◽

Methodological Basis ◽

The Military

The aim of the article is to analyze the theoretical and legal approaches to understanding civil security and to make relevant generalizations. The methodological basis was the methods that allowed to obtain sound and logically verified conclusions, in particular, the method of hermeneutics, which allowed to study the doctrinal sources and texts of the advisory mission of the European Union, the method of comparison, which allowed to identify a method that provided an opportunity to draw conclusions about the understanding of civil security. Scientific novelty. The article identifies the main directions of understanding civil security, defines the characteristics of the European vision of civil security and outlines the issues of understanding civil security for further theoretical and legal research. Conclusions. The tendency to understand civil security, which goes beyond public security, but covers it, brings civil security closer to the level of national security, is manifested in research linking civil security with crisis management, the transformation of civil defense as a sphere of military responsibility, to the demilitarized system civilian security, although military capabilities are used to varying degrees in crisis management in different countries, emphasize national features, a variety of terminological descriptions of crisis management, emergency response, note the need to strengthen the interaction between civil security and the military.

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