How Bad Is It? Usefulness of the “ 7eed Model ” for Scoring Severity and Level of Need in Complex Emergencies
Discussion
Our assessments indicate that the 7eed model is based on indicators with a value that is readily available, provides scores that vary among countries and over time, and in addition, reliably captures levels of severity. The developed heat maps visually illustrate the severity and the variation among countries. They show that both vulnerability and exposure together form the severity of a CE, while the scoring provides measurable comparisons that can support needs based decision-making.
The results in figure 7 show a high correlation between excess mortality and severity score, which indicates that the model ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anneli Eriksson Source Type: research
How Bad Is It? Usefulness of the “7eed Model” for Scoring Severity and Level of Need in Complex Emergencies
Discussion
Our assessments indicate that the 7eed model is based on indicators with a value that is readily available, provides scores that vary among countries and over time, and in addition, reliably captures levels of severity. The developed heat maps visually illustrate the severity and the variation among countries. They show that both vulnerability and exposure together form the severity of a CE, while the scoring provides measurable comparisons that can support needs based decision-making.
The results in figure 7 show a high correlation between excess mortality and severity score, which indicates that the model ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Anneli Eriksson Source Type: research
Socio-demographic Predictors for Urban Community Disaster Health Risk Perception and Household Based Preparedness in a Chinese Urban City
CONCLUSION
The current findings suggest that future research and policy formulation should focus on strengthening household disaster preparedness, and enhancing disaster health risk literacy in the general public. High level disaster-related mitigation knowledge within the community is an essential asset in the development of preparedness enhancement programs. Further investigation will be necessary to examine other aspects of disaster health risk literacy, including the capability and skills to acquire, evaluate and comprehend disaster-related information, and the ability to implement emergency response plans to mitigate ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Emily YY Chan Source Type: research
Behavior Problems and Post-traumatic Stress Symptoms in Children Beginning School: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-Earthquake Groups
Conclusions
This is the first study to report behavior problems and PTS symptoms among children who had lengthy experience of earthquakes and post-disaster stressors during early childhood as compared to a demographically similar group from similar and nearby neighborhoods who did not experience the disaster. The major finding showed that there were significantly more behaviour problems and post-traumatic stress symptoms in the children who entered school after the earthquakes. The rate of PTS symptoms in the Pre-EQ Group is comparable to rates in non-disaster exposed communities.2,4 The rate of children with high PTS scor...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kathleen Liberty Source Type: research
If Numbers Can Speak, Who Listens? Creating Engagement and Learning for Effective Uptake of DRR Investment in Developing Countries
Introduction
Amid the rising costs of natural disasters observed globally, emerging international consensus holds that a primary remedy to the lack of appropriate risk management – and ex-ante disaster risk reduction (DRR) investment in particular – can be found in better communication regarding the cost-effectiveness of DRR investment 1,2. Over the past two decades, natural disasters have affected a total of 4.4 billion people worldwide, causing as much as $2 trillion in economic losses 3. By 2030, accelerating urbanization, continued asset build-up in hazard-prone areas and other adverse consequences of poorly manage...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: jmochizuki Source Type: research
Needs of Internally Displaced Women and Children in Baghdad, Karbala, and Kirkuk, Iraq
Conclusions
The vulnerability of this population is great, and the emotional trauma of multiple displacements, kidnapping and deaths from intentional violence is great. While some aid is reaching families, much more is needed. Though Iraq is a middle income country, reaching the IDPs in central Iraq will take much more in international assistance than is currently being received. Unfortunately, at this time of great need, assistance is being cut back throughout the region because of lack of funding.10 The local civil society organizations which have sprung up in many locations to assist IDPs, offer an avenue for targeting ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 10, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gilbert Burnham Source Type: research
Effectiveness of Interventions, Programs and Strategies for Gender-based Violence Prevention in Refugee Populations: An Integrative Review
Conclusions call for more evidence on the effectiveness and sustainability of GBV programs.
Hargreaves 200934 / Original research, mixed
Non-displaced populations / Rural settings in South Africa / Female Adult
Describes the process evaluation of an intervention combining microfinance with gender and HIV training for the prevention of intimate partner violence in South Africa. It found that microfinance and gender/HIV training were feasible to deliver and acceptable to most clients. Although participation in community mobilization was high for some clients, others experienced barri...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - April 19, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Hannah Tappis Source Type: research
Leveraging Social Computing for Personalized Crisis Communication using Social Media
Conclusions
In very fast pace, social media have acquired a prominent role in media and our daily life71. During crisis and emergency, people tend to approach social media not only because of the need for quick information, but also due to the human tendency for storytelling, which allows people to experience their lives as coherent, orderly and meaningful. It is what makes people’s life more than a blooming, buzzing confusion117. Communication with public during emergency is critical for successful emergency management118 life saving, rescue and recovery. On the other hand , one should take into account that 2.08 billio...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - March 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: dimleyk Source Type: research
A Comparative Analysis of Disaster Risk, Vulnerability and Resilience Composite Indicators
This study has found that these calls have been largely unheeded. Despite the large increase in number of disaster risk, resilience and vulnerability composite indicators being developed, there has not been an increase in the use of sensitivity and uncertainty analysis. Few methodologies are undertaking explicit sensitivity and uncertainty analyses and where it is undertaken it is typically limited to one or two aspects of the methodology. This makes it difficult to assess quality, especially when many choices in index construction appear to have been made arbitrarily or with limited justification. Some sensitivity analyse...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - March 14, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ben Beccari Source Type: research
Assessing Households Preparedness for Earthquakes: An Exploratory Study in the Development of a Valid and Reliable Persian-version Tool
Conclusion
The negative consequences of earthquakes can be reduced by preparing households appropriately in the event of quakes. Considering the high capacity of public health networks distributed around the country, health community workers can successfully apply the tool for estimating household preparedness. Primary health centers are active community-based health agencies in Iran, so it is strongly recommended to use their full participation to accomplish any disaster preparedness and mitigation projects.
Achieving research integrity can be assumed as one of the main advantages of the present study. Hence, it is su...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - February 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Ali Ardalan Source Type: research
Characteristics of an Effective International Humanitarian Assistance: A Systematic Review
Conclusion:
In this review we have presented the IHA effectiveness characteristics from previous reports and documents. The evidence from this study supports the idea that there is a lack of scientific studies in the field of IHA effectiveness. Also the findings of this study indicate that there is no agreed definition for IHA effectiveness characteristics, although there is a global need for conducting IHA effectiveness evaluation. We developed a conceptual mapping of existing characteristics of IHA effectiveness. Although this study is a first step toward our understanding of IHA effectiveness, the findings add to g...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - February 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shandiz Moslehi Source Type: research
Rapid and near Real-time Assessments of Population Displacement Using Mobile Phone Data Following Disasters: The 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Conclusions
The value of CDRs when integrated with more traditional data sources within modelling frameworks has been shown across multiple disease, development and disaster application examples. The field of CDR analytics in the humanitarian space is therefore moving beyond pilot studies and towards a more mature and operationally valuable platform. Here we have shown how this can be achieved in a disaster response situation through the partnership of scientists, mobile network operators and response agencies. The work described is not a single study, but the initiation of an ongoing dynamic and near-real time monitoring ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - February 24, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: robintw Source Type: research
Evacuation During Hurricane Sandy: Data from a Rapid Community Assessment
Discussion
Less than half of survey respondents evacuated for Sandy. We consider this to be low considering that residents in areas more vulnerable to Sandy were instructed to evacuate. Possible explanations for this low evacuation rate may be due to several factors. A number of disaster studies have assessed how individuals respond to disaster warnings, and in most cases the timing, personalization, and clarity of the message, and risk perception affected evacuation.7,9,10,15,17 It is possible that the degree of evacuation warning compliance in this study was a result of these underlying dimensions, which were beyond the ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - January 29, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Shakara Brown Source Type: research
Immediate Needs and Concerns among Pregnant Women During and after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Conclusions
This study investigated women’s concerns during and after the typhoon and presented a first-hand perspective on their problems at the same time. The pregnant women experienced difficulties with evacuation, a lack of minimum survival needs, and attending to their own and their families’ health issues. They used all means possible to survive, including cooperating with neighbors and relatives, using all their existing knowledge, and finding optimal ways to obtain the necessary goods and shelter for survival. It is crucial for pregnant women to receive accurate, rapid, and necessary information before and ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - January 25, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mari Sato Source Type: research
Demographic Determinants of Disaster Preparedness Behaviors Amongst Tehran Inhabitants, Iran
Conclusion
Our findings show that monthly income level, previous disaster experience, residential district and occupation influence disaster preparedness behaviors of Tehran inhabitants. Therefore, in order to achieve higher levels of individual disaster preparedness, it is crucial that governmental officials, emergency agencies, community leaders and educators pay more attention to low-income individuals, unemployed people, and individuals who live in high risk districts, especially those have not experienced disasters.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exists. (Source: PLOS Currents Disasters)
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - December 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Mehdi Najafi Source Type: research
