Extractions: Wendy MacIntyre After a home is damaged - through fire or flood, for example - people's natural instinct is to try to retrieve the personal treasures that embody their family heritage: photographs, a wedding gown, birth certificates and precious mementoes bequeathed from generation to generation. The loss of these kinds of objects can be devastating because they are such powerful components of personal identity. On a national scale, the loss of cultural treasures can be just as devastating. If a country's cultural heritage is at risk, its sense of national identity will also be endangered. Ann deBeaupré, Program Coordinator with OCIPEP (EPC), is very much concerned with mitigating the risk to Canada's cultural heritage. "During any planning for emergency," she emphasizes, "cultural heritage should be discussed. Of course, protection of life is paramount. But don't leave cultural heritage off the map." EPC is part of a burgeoning partnership initiative (see below) to protect our country's heritage from natural and human-made disasters. As Ms. deBeaupré points out, cultural heritage encompasses an enormous range of artifacts, archival documents, sites and buildings. "It involves places and built environments where momentous events occurred. It involves not only art on walls, but also church altars, tapestries, books, maps, landscapes (in parks) and documents such as the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
Extractions: Traditional population health measures, such as infant mortality rates, vaccination rates, and average life expectancy, have emphasized morbidity and mortality. During the past decade, weighted indices of population health (e.g., years of healthy life and disability-adjusted life-years), which combine life expectancy with aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQOL), have provided more comprehensive summary measures (1). To meet the need for a less complex measure that is more sensitive to local variations in population health, CDC developed the "healthy days" index. This HRQOL index tracks the number of healthy days (i.e., days when persons' physical and mental health were both good) during the preceding 30 days for a specific population (2-5). This report describes state differences for 1993-1996 in the mean number of healthy days reported by adults, including large differences within each state by level of formal education. During 1993-1996, the overall state-weighted mean number of healthy days during the preceding 30 days for all adults was 24.7, ranging from 23.7 (Kentucky and Nevada) to 26.0 (South Dakota) (pless than 0.05; weighted z-test after adjustment for multiple comparisons) (
Source Code For Chapter 4 penn/index.htm IMG SRC= ../img/pennsite.jpg border=0 /A br . A HREF= . it is best known for its work with natural and humanmade disasters. http://www.fund-online.com/alabook/chapters/source.htm
Extractions: Here's a look behind the scenes at the raw HTML coding for Chapter Four, The Red Cross. (We chose this chapter because it's short.) The beginning of this document contains all the really fussy coding for the links to all the other sections. Once you get past that, you'll be able to see something that more or less resembles text. You can view the HTML coding for any document on the web by saving it to your hard drive and calling it up in a text editor such as WordPad, Notepad, or SimpleText. Or you can use the "view source" option from the "view" pulldown menu on your browser's toolbar.
UMCOR: The United Methodist Committee On Relief A humanitarian agency at work around the world, responding to natural or humanmade disasters, hunger/poverty, and assisting refugees and displaced people. http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/
Extractions: At Trinity Church, a distribution site for supplies to evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi conference and general church officials plan next phases of hurricane relief. Credit: Rev. Larry Hollon/UMNS. Its going to take everybody in this country doing something. This whole country is affected by whats happened. At this point, its a human event. Were hearing from local churches from New York to Arkansas - from everywhere. Churches are doing all that they know how to do. I dont know of a single church thats not doing something. Theyre all involved."
Extractions: NCPTSD Topics Facts Publications Documents Video Assessment About NCPTSD NCPTSD's Website Most Popular Pages: Survivors of Human-Caused and Natural Disasters Common Reactions to Trauma Self-Care and Self-Help Following Disasters Cuidándose y Ayudándose así mismo despuÈs de un desastre Helping Survivors in the Wake of Disaster How Terroristic Acts May Affect Veterans Disaster Rescue and Response Workers Terrorist Attacks and Children How the Community May Be Affected by Media Coverage of the Terrorist Attack Frequently Asked Questions Early Intervention for Trauma: Current Status and Future Directions The Range, Magnitude, and Duration of Effects of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters: A Review of the Empirical Literature Risk Factors for Adverse Outcomes in Natural and Human-Caused Disasters: A Review of the Empirical Literature Psychological Resources in the Aftermath of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters: A Review of the Empirical Literature with Implications for Intervention Self-Care and Self-Help Following Disasters What Are the Traumatic Stress Effects of Terrorism?
Minding The Machines (Eva, Manion) natural disasters Floods Hurricanes Earthquakes humanmade disasters 2.2 Assumed Distinctions Between natural and human-made disasters http://www.disastercenter.com/Rothstein/cd645.htm
Green Paper On Disaster Management Chapter 4 Famine and other natural disasters can also give rise to refugees. in the case of both natural and humanmade disasters that cause injury, http://www.local.gov.za/DCD/policydocs/gpdm/gpdm4.1b.html
Index Manages prevention plan for humanmade disaster designates hazardous area Formulates and coordinates natural disaster management http://eng.gsnd.net/gov/index2ogn_08.php
Extractions: Manage and approve the development restriction areas. Establish, implement and approve basic urban plans. Implement urban planning and urban planning projects. Decide land readjustment plans and re-plotting Create and approve housing sites. Establish and implement new city plans. Matters related to city parks. Control, guide, and supervise outdoor advertisements. Manage and carry out public development projects. Establish, adjust, and control comprehensive plan for the development of national industrial complexes. Local industrial complex projects and relocation projects. Matters related to the development of distribution centers. Prepare and manage Shoot and read aerial photos and manage topography information. Matters related to public land surveys. Matters related to urban railroads (subway) Matters related to urban landscape. Director : Kim Jae-gi
Cornell Hospitality News The lesson of recent natural and humanmade disasters is that almost any hotel needs to plan for the reality that it will have to operate without its http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/icat04/HO.html
Red Cross Red Crescent - Disaster Types Population Movement Back to disasters main page Back to Disaster types index For nonconflict areas and natural disasters, the Federation is the lead agency and will http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/types/popmov/index.asp
Disaster Research E-mail Newsletter - Natural Hazards Center natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center University of as well as natural and human-made disasters, it is essential for the http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/dr/dr402.html
Extractions: Center September 24, 2005 DISASTER RESEARCH 402 February 29, 2004 TABLE OF CONTENTS NEES-IRIS-USGS Workshop and Pilot Field Experiment Storm Surge Modeling Fellowship FDA Domestic Outreach Meetings FEMA Review of San Jose, California, Incident Response ... Conferences and Training Over the last decade significant investments have gone into developing research facilities such as the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) consortium, the Incorporated Research Institutes for Seismology consortium (IRIS), and the USGS National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). Additional work has gone into nurturing the scientific and engineering expertise needed to make use of these individual facilities. NEES is seeking participants for a workshop and pilot field experiment to assess and demonstrate the combined capabilities of NEES's large-scale shakers (and other NEES components), the diverse array of seismic recording systems available through IRIS, and USGS geophysical and seismic instrumentation. Coordination with Earthscope and the ANSS also will be discussed.
Northeast CAPT: Disaster Preparedness: Coping like natural and humanmade disasters are the topic of this list of websites. Administrators (http//www.ncptsd.org/treatment/disaster/index.html). http://www.northeastcapt.org/resources/disasterprep/factsheet-coping.html
Extractions: Home Resources Disaster Preparedness Resources The websites listed below contain information addressing issues related to coping with stress resulting from traumatic events like natural and humanmade disasters. American Psychological Association maintains a webpage, Coping with Traumatic Events http://www.apa.org/practice/ptresources.html ), containing links to resources related to coping with various traumatic events, including disasters. The Child Trauma Academy has a series of documents titled Coping with Traumatic Events: Terrorist Attacks in the United States , which provides advice on helping children cope with terror attacks for:
Davis, Mike. Ecology Of Fear. natural disaster as environmental commonplace contributes to an expectation of the inevitability of natural and humanmade disasters in the LA Basin. http://archive.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/je1/01davis.html
GEsource - Search Results For Subjects related to humanmade hazards include famine, emergency aid, technological hazards, GEsource natural disasters and Hazards Home Page http://www.gesource.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/browsesql.pl?toplevel=physical&limit=0&s
GEsource - Search Results For Subjects related to humanmade hazards include famine, emergency aid, recovery and/or mitigation of hazards of natural and socio-technical disasters. http://www.gesource.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/browsesql.pl?toplevel=human&limit=0&subj
Middle School Friends Home provided crucial and, at times, lifesaving assistance to people struggling for survival in the wake of natural or human-made disasters. http://www.pym.org/youngfriends/MiddleSchool/
Extractions: This page updated on Monday, August 29, 2005 Middle School Friends Coming Events Info for Parents How to Volunteer ... Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Photo Gallery Opportunities for MSF Young Friends Quaker Summer Camps Camp Dark Waters Medford, NJ Camp Onas Ottsville, Bucks County PA Journey's End Farm Camp Newfoundland, PA Stone Mountain Adventures Huntingdon, PA QUAKER CAMPS within the U.S. Staff Elizabeth Walmsley Middle School Friends Program Coordinator 1515 Cherry Street
Extractions: research on mind, brain, and behavior Text Size: S M L powered by Google Advanced Search Press Room NIMH Outreach Scientific Meetings Clinical Trials ... Publications A booklet that describes the impact of violence and disasters on children and adolescents, with suggestions for minimizing long-term emotional harm. What do you want to do? Helping young people avoid or overcome emotional problems in the wake of violence or disaster is one of the most important challenges a parent, teacher, or mental health professional can face. The National Institute of Mental Health and other Federal agencies are working to address the issue of assisting children and adolescents who have been victims of or witnesses to violent and/or catastrophic events. The purpose of this fact sheet is to tell what is known about the impact of violence and disasters on children and adolescents and suggest steps to minimize long-term emotional harm.
Extractions: Cumulative Index This is a temporary version of the IJMED 's online Cumulative Index containing a listing of articles and their abstracts, listed alphabetically by authors' last names. A B C D ... Y Volume 1, No. 1 (March 1983) through Volume 23, No. 1 (March 2005) Abe, Kitao and Ryoichi Kazama, "A Psychological Analysis of the Evacuation Behavior at the Great Sakata Fire," Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1985): 133-146. An analytical perspective is used to examine the relationship of human evacuation and migration. The first part of the paper focuses on the variables of distance, permanence and voluntarism used to distinguish evacuation from migration, to point out that the lack of interest in evacuation by students of migration, partly on the basis of the assumed clear-cut differences in these three dimensions, is unwarranted. The second part of the paper identifies three models which would provide a basis for a synthesis of the two types of geographical mobility: evacuations and migrations as residential displacements, as the result of subjective decision-making processes triggered by stressors, and as instances of collective behavior. (AA) Aguirre, Benigno, "Evacuation in Cancun during Hurricane Gilbert," Vol. 9, No. 1 (March 1991): 31-45.
Extractions: Volume 16, No. 3 (November 1998) Articles by: R. Denise Blanchard-Boehm , "Understanding Public Response to Increased Risk from Natural Hazards: Application of the Hazards Risk Communication Framework," pp. 247-278. L. Erwin Atwood and Ann Marie Major , "Exploring the 'Cry Wolf' Hypothesis," pp. 279-302. The "cry wolf" hypothesis argues that individuals who have experienced predictions of disasters that do not materialize will discount the validity of subsequent disaster warnings. This belief in the false alarm effect is widely mentioned in the disaster literature, and anecdotal material appears to support the validity of the hypothesis. This study of a false earthquake warning supports experimental findings indicating that cancellation of a disaster warning leads to a false alarm effect. Following cancellation of the threat by the non-appearance of the predicted earthquake, 46.7 percent of the panel respondents indicated that they would pay less attention whereas only 16.7 percent said that they would pay more attention to a future earthquake prediction. The panel data also suggest that the mass media were substantial contributors to the observed false alarm effect, while at the same time the media escaped blame for their contributions to the problem. (AA)
Extractions: QUICK LINKS RESOURCES FOR A-Z INDEX print this page ... Counseling Degrees Counseling Degrees This site requires JavaScript to be enabled for all features to work correctly. Please email the webmaster if you have any questions. The Graduate Department of Counseling is offering a Mental Health Trauma Certificate. The certificate is designed to prepare mental health professionals to be more fully prepared to work with trauma survivors. It is designed to provide mental health professionals (in pursuit of a master's or higher degree, as well as those with a master's or higher degree in a mental health field) with a foundation to understand the physiological and psychological impact of trauma on trauma survivors, their families, and the community. The program allows great flexibility and an opportunity for participants to choose from a selection of courses to meet the needs and interests of the individual, with the opportunity of specialization in one of three areas:
