Health care system hazard vulnerability analysis: an assessment of all public hospitals in Abu Dhabi.
Disasters
; 38(2): 420-33, 2014 Apr.
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| ID: mdl-24601924
ABSTRACT
Hazard vulnerability analysis (HVA) is used to risk-stratify potential threats, measure the probability of those threats, and guide disaster preparedness. The primary objective of this project was to analyse the level of disaster preparedness in public hospitals in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, utilising the HVA tool in collaboration with the Disaster Medicine Section at Harvard Medical School. The secondary objective was to review each facility's disaster plan and make recommendations based on the HVA findings. Based on the review, this article makes eight observations, including on the need for more accurate data; better hazard assessment capabilities; enhanced decontamination capacities; and the development of hospital-specific emergency management programmes, a hospital incident command system, and a centralised, dedicated regional disaster coordination centre. With this project, HVAs were conducted successfully for the first time in health care facilities in Abu Dhabi. This study thus serves as another successful example of multidisciplinary emergency preparedness processes.
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Bases de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Planificación en Desastres
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Servicios Médicos de Urgencia
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Hospitales Públicos
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Disasters
Año:
2014
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Emiratos Árabes Unidos