There was no measure of post-disaster functioning which could have reflected the severity of psychiatric morbidity.
Some predictive factors like other pre-disaster life events, pre- and post-disaster functioning, perceived threat and social support were not studied.
Other vulnerability factors like pre-existing mental and physical ill health, other pre-existing or concurrent life events independent and unrelated to super-cyclone, pre-disaster functioning, coping strategies, history of distress or disorder in parents and family were not studied.
President Bush is right to seek a broadly inclusive Homeland Security Department that incorporates border security, bioterrorism defenses and disaster management functions now scattered across the government.
Improvements in the intelligent disaster prevention functions of buildings are imperative.
The essay concludes with questions that practitioners may use proactively in the development of copy points to address each of the rhetoric of disaster's functions.
Respondents consisted of 88% males and 12% females; 42% were mayors, 4% were deputy mayors, 32% were municipal clerks, and 22% held other positions involved with disaster management functions.
We examined DRL among local government leaders in Thailand, which, in our research, not only referred to municipality mayors, but also included other highly positioned administrators who are directly responsible for or assigned to carrying out disaster management functions, such as deputy mayors, municipal clerks, and emergency managers.
At present, the evaluation of earthquake evacuation capacity is short of effective methods in earthquake engineering, which not only affect the earthquake disaster prevention function of all kinds of resources, but also influence the refuge after the earthquake.
Current climate change and the increase in extreme weather events should act as an impetus for the national government to put the disaster management function in Cameroon in line with international best practices.
