A Study on Regional Distribution for Vulnerable People with Orthopedic disease Considering Earthquake Disaster: Using KDB from Hakui City

Analysis of the Quality and Quantity of Antiepileptic Drugs Required in Communities during Large-Scale Disasters: Focused on a Small Local City in Japan

“…Thus far, the KDB has been extensively used to conduct research on estimating the extent of damage and difficulty in evacuating people who require support from a third party during a disaster (i.e., vulnerable people) [7,8]. In a previous study on estimating the extent of damage using the KDB [7], the authors extracted information on dialysis, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease patients from the KDB and estimated the circumstances under which they would be affected during an earthquake.…”

“…In a previous study on estimating the extent of damage using the KDB [7], the authors extracted information on dialysis, ischemic heart disease, and cerebrovascular disease patients from the KDB and estimated the circumstances under which they would be affected during an earthquake. Another study investigated the difficulty of evacuating people requiring special care [8], i.e., patients with orthopedic diseases whose evacuation on foot was considered difficult; information on such patients was extracted from the KDB. An evacuation difficulty index was calculated for each region, and the difficulty that patients with orthopedic diseases faced during evacuation was estimated.…”