Importance of Site Selection for Stockpiling Field Hospitals for Upcoming Disasters

Bulletin of Emergency and Trauma

Ali Akbarisari¹  Ali Ardalan²  Amir Nejati⁴  Behnaz Rastegarfar⁵  Ali Darvishi Boloorani⁶  Mohammad Javad Moradian⁷ 

[1] GIS, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran;1-Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran2-Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard Chan School of Public Health;1-Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran3-Department of Disaster and Emergency Health, I.R. Iran’s National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;Department of Remote Sensing &MD, MPH, PhDDepartment of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Trauma Research Center, Shahid Rajaee (Emtiaz) Trauma Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

关键词: Disaster;    Field hospital;    Preparedness phase;    Site Selection;    Stockpile;   

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学科分类：基础医学

来源: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Disasters have always posed a great challenge to human beings [1]. An immediate impact of most disasters on the local health care system is the huge number of casualties that outstrip their capability to provide the required care [2]. A timely summoning of field hospitals (FH) especially in large-scale disasters can significantly contribute to the process of surge capacity [3]. A Field hospital is defined as a "mobile, self-contained, self-sufficient health care facility capable of rapid deployment and expansion or contraction to meet immediate emergency requirements for a specified period of time" [4].

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