Typhoon In Philippines Research Articles

Effectiveness and possible roles of People’s Organizations in disaster recovery: A case study of the 2013 Philippines Typhoon Yolanda

Effectiveness and possible roles of People’s Organizations in disaster recovery: A case study of the 2013 Philippines Typhoon Yolanda

Comparison of Operative Logbook Experience of Australian General Surgical Trainees With Surgeons Deployed on Humanitarian Missions: What Can Be Learnt for the Future?

General surgical training in Australia has undergone considerable change in recent years with less exposure to other areas of surgery. General surgeons from many high-income countries have played important roles in assisting with the provision of surgical care in low- and middle-income countries during sudden-onset disasters (SODs) as part of emergency medical teams (EMTs). It is not known if contemporary Australian general surgeons are receiving the broad surgical training required for work in EMTs. Logbook data on the surgical procedures performed by Australian general surgical trainees were obtained from General Surgeons Australia (GSA) for the time period February 2008 to February 2017. Surgical procedures performed by Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) surgeons during 5 projects in 3 SODs (the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2013 Philippines typhoon and the 2015 Nepal earthquake) were obtained from previously published data for 6 months following each disaster. This was carried out at the University of Sydney with input from MSF Operational Centre Brussels and GSA. Australian general surgical trainees performed a mean of 2107 surgical procedures (excluding endoscopy) during their training (10 6-month rotations). Common procedures included abdominal wall hernia repairs (268, 12.7%), cholecystectomies (247, 11.8%), and specialist colorectal procedures (242, 11.5%). MSF surgeons performed a total of 3542 surgical procedures across the 5 projects analyzed. Common procedures included Caesarean sections (443, 12.5%), wound debridement (1115, 31.5%), and other trauma-related procedures (472, 13.3%). Australian general surgical trainees receive exposure to both essential and advanced general surgery but lack exposure to specialty procedures including the obstetric and orthopedic procedures commonly performed by MSF surgeons after SODs. Further training in these areas would likely be beneficial for general surgeons prior to deployment with an EMT.

An Improvement for International Relief Activities of Religious Groups in Korea - Cases of the 2013 Typhoon in Philippines and the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal -

우리나라 종단들의 국제구호 활동은 어려움을 겪는다. 국제구호의 기준은 국제기구와 국제구호 NGO들을 중심으로 논의된다. 2013년의 필리핀 태풍과 2015년의 네팔 지진에 대해, 거버넌스, 사업의 운영 및 행정지원 체계에 있어 4대 종단들의 국제구호활동을 검토하고 개선방안을 모색하였다. 거버넌스 차원에서는 지역 사회와의 협력의 한계와 국제구호 단체와의 네트워크의 한계가 있었고, 대책으로 국제구호 단체들 간의 네트워크 구축, 지역사회 역량 활용, 클러스터 접근법을 제언하였다. 운영적 차원으로는 단기적인 차원의 지원, 현지 운영상 국제규범의 인지 부족과 경쟁적인 구호활동, 지역적 사정에 대한 인식의 한계의 문제가 있었고, 해결책으로 지역사회 회복력 강화, 재해의연금 운영의 자립과 투명성 강화, 현지의 정치ㆍ사회적 맥락의 이해를 제시하였다. 행정지원 체계적 차원의 한계로는 요원들의 전문성 어려움, 국제구호 활동의 비용에 대한 인식의 한계, 종단 내의 복잡한 의사결정 체계가 지적되었고, 대책으로는 다양한 인재 개발, 후원자의 인식 개선, 종단 전체적 차원의 접근을 제시하였다.Religious groups in Korea tend to face various difficulties for overseas relief activities. The cases of typhoon in Philippines (2013) and earthquake in Nepal (2015) are reviewed from the perspectives of governance, operation, and administrative support. Limited cooperation with communities and insufficient networking with international rescue organizations were identified as problems in governance, for which networking with international NGOs, utilization of local resources and a cluster approach were suggested. Short-term perspectives, misunderstanding of international standard and competitive attitudes were identified as problems in operation, for which local resilience, transparency and independence in donation and local understanding were suggested. Problems in administrative support include limited staff capacity, limited understanding of the expenses on international relief activities and complex decision-making process, which could be addressed by various human resource development, changes in donors’ attitude and a comprehensive approach.

Medical emergency rescue in disaster: the international emergency response to the Haiyan typhoon in Philippines.

Following Typhoon Haiyan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been supporting the Government of the Philippines in coordinating the incoming relief supplies from more than 30 international humanitarian health organizations. During the 10 days in Abuyong, Philippines, the Chinese medical rescue team consisting of 50 experts specialized in clinical medicine and disease prevention and control action was taken including, medical treatment, environmental disinfection and health education. A total of 1,831 cases and 2,144 outpatients were treated, blood tests, B-ultrasound, electrocardiogram (ECG) and other laboratory examinations were carried out for more than 615 patients; a cumulative 90,000 square meters in external environment were disinfected, and more than 500 health education materials were handed out. Besides, measures of purifying drinking water, and rebuilding the local hospital have also been carried out. The international emergency response to the Haiyan typhoon in Philippines contributed to reconstruct the local disaster health system by the activities from international medical emergency rescue. To improve the capacity of international medical emergency rescue in disaster, the special project of foreign medical emergency rescue should be set in countries' medical emergency rescue, and disaster emergency medical rescue should be reserved as a conventional capacity.

Spiritually oriented disaster psychology.

According to Ronan and Johnston (2005) the number of people who will experience a disaster will double by 2050 from one billion people to two billion people. Since 1985 there has been an almost 400% increase in global natural disasters (Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2007). Researchers managing the global terrorism database report a similar increase in terrorist events over the last decade, with almost 5,000 events annually. Some of the worst disasters, such as Hurricane Katrina, Haiti Earthquake, Japan Tsunami, and Philippines Typhoon occurred in the past decade alone. Disasters are becoming more complex, with primary disasters (e.g., earthquake) often triggering secondary disasters (e.g., nuclear meltdown). Research shows that disasters often leave a significant psychological and spiritual “footprint” on affected communities. Thus, the purpose of this article is to introduce readers to empirical research on the psychology of religion/ spirituality and disasters as well as to introduce a framework for spiritually oriented disaster psychology.

Hydrologic Vulnerability and Preventing Domino Effect Consequences

Copyright: © 2013 Tansel B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hydrologic conditions and dependency of a community to the existing state of hydrologic settings create a network of vulnerabilities with multidimensional consequences. Hydrologic vulnerability is defined by the geographic conditions which also link a series of physical, social, and economic conditions as well as the engineering infrastructure. The major disasters in the recent history provided remarkable examples where hydrologic vulnerability of communities have been tested through the consequences observed in physical, social, economic and engineering infrastructure networks. Just in the last three years the World has witnessed the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, earthquake in Haiti in 2010, earthquake and tsunami off the Pacific coast of Tōhoku in Japan in 2011, floods in Thailand in 2011, floods and mudslides in Rio de Janeiro in 2011, Costa Concordia cruise ship accident near Italy in 2012, hurricane Sandy in USA in 2012, Haian typhoon in Philippines in 2013, floods in Chandrapur district in Maharashtra of India in 2013, and floods in the eastern and southeastern provinces of Afghanistan in 2013. These disasters have not only showed the hydrologic vulnerability of the communities but also have produced long lasting impacts form a multitude of perspectives.