Third, pre-disaster measurements of this population were not available and, therefore, there is no prospective data as to their pre-existent psychiatric morbidity.
The aim of this study in family practice was to investigate if these supposed risk factors would still occur in a study design with a pre-disaster measurement.
The aim of this study was to explore whether female affected residents were more vulnerable than male ones and whether younger age groups were more vulnerable than older groups to the effects of a man-made disaster in a longitudinal design with a pre-disaster measurement and a comparison group.
To tackle these challenges, this study (1) proposes an overarching eight-step procedure for composite indicator building and (2) develops a meta-level assessment framework to allow for a systematic review of existing disaster resilience measurement frameworks in application of composite indicator building.
(e.g. face to face, an interview by telephone or self-reported questionnaires) Is the moment (time after disaster) of measurement and duration of the assessment described?
Systematic studies of the contaminated environment of eastern Poland began several years after the Chernobyl disaster after measurement apparatus of appropriate quality (gamma spectrometers with germanium detectors and alpha spectrometers with silicon detectors) had been obtained.
The aim of this study was to explore whether the supposed risk factors of female gender and younger age would (also) appear in a study in family practice in which a pre-disaster baseline measurement was available with a longitudinal design, without recall bias and using a comparison group.
We evaluated the prediction accuracy of our CA model, by comparing results from the CA model with remote sensing satellite data from the disaster areas and measurements of the mudflow disaster area.
In this disaster, an accurate measurement of the oil spill is no less important.
The measurement of community disaster resilience through the development of a comprehensive set of composite indicators is becoming increasingly commonplace.
This concept consists of three different parts: (i) a probabilistic fragility analysis for each individual physical element (i.e. a building or an infrastructure element), (ii) a composite index methodology for the measurement of community disaster resilience, and (iii) a complex network approach (graph theory) for the assessment of the resilience of urban systems as a whole.
