Application of a Telemedical Tool in an Isolated Island and a Disaster Area of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Yoshizawa, Makoto; Yambe, Tomoyuki; Sugita, Norihiro; Konno, Satoshi; Abe, Makoto; Homma, Noriyasu; Takei, Futoshi; Yokota, Katsuhiko; Saijo, Yoshifumi; Nitta, Shin Ichi

doi:10.1587/transcom.e95.b.3067

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“…The telemedical services have been used in the disaster area (Miyako Island) of the Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. In addition to its applications, but finding showed that it still needs further reform in the operability, portability and mobile communication environment [53]. Currently, telemedicine has applications in telenursing, Telepharmac, telerehabilitation, telephone care, Teletrauma care, Tele counseling and E-learning, telepathology, teleradiology, teledermatology, teleradiology, teledentistry, and teleophthalmology [54].…”

Section: Telemedicinementioning

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Prevalence Waterborne Infections after Earthquakes Considered as Serious Threat to Increasing Victims in Disaster-Affected Areas

2020

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T HE disasters are competent for beginning the prevalence of waterborne infections. The earthquakes are the most important disaster worldwide. Studies have reported waterborne pathogens can causing about thirty-eight types of infections after each earthquake. Also, waterborne pathogens can cause a higher fatality than an earthquake. Therefore, a strategy for prevention from infections that may occur for people is important after each earthquake. Waterborne infections were sometimes causing two folds fatalities than the earthquake. Disasters are the most important complications in developing countries for the World Health Organization (WHO). Notably, occurrences of infectious diseases after natural disasters commonly occur, especially in seismic regions. Iran is located in the Alpine-Himalayan seismic belt and considered a seismic country. The planning of an infectious disease strategy is necessary for decreasing health problems. Therefore, our aims of the present study were to introduce important bacterial waterborne infectious agents that prevalence after the previous earthquakes and explained several important relevant prevention strategies.

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Section: Telemedicinementioning

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Prevalence Waterborne Infections after Earthquakes Considered as Serious Threat to Increasing Victims in Disaster-Affected Areas

2020

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“…Two reviews stated that the appropriate use of telemedicine is crucial for risk management and emergency nursing practice during earthquakes (18,19). Existing studies reported that telemedicine was used to assist plastic surgery, paraplegics, cardiopulmonary medicine, intensive care and other medical treatments during earthquake relief (20)(21)(22)(23)(24). Despite some authors developed telemedicine systems to support treatments and interventions (25)(26)(27), studies on the use of telemedicine for mental health in earthquake settings are limited.…”

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Telemedicine Assessment for the Mental Health of Rural Residents Based on the Safety Degree of Housing in Seismically Active Regions

Yin

Xie

Qin³

et al. 2021

Front. Public Health

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Earthquakes inevitably affect the mental health of local residents. In seismically active regions of Southwest China, local rural residents' dilapidated housing with poor seismic performance aggravates the impacts of earthquakes on their mental health. These residents' mental health is difficult to recognize because of the lack of appropriate assessment methods. In addition, rural residents in the area have a low socioeconomic status and cannot access adequate mental treatment. Thus, telemedicine could be an effective approach to assist mental health practice in such areas. However, the lack of telemedicine assessment factors in these areas makes it difficult to complete the correct triage and prioritization of rural residents' mental health quickly and effectively. To provide a foundation for applying telemedicine to assess the risk of mental health problems that rural residents in seismically active regions experience, this paper studied whether the degree of safety of housing can affect mental health. In this study, nine villages near the epicenter of the 2019 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Changning County, China were randomly selected, and 162 valid questionnaires were completed. SPSS statistical software was used to analyze the collected data. First, the satisfaction of rural residents with the degree of safety of housing significantly affected the K6 score and whether they suffered from mental problems. Second, the mental health of rural residents living in reinforced concrete frame structure housing was obviously superior to that of those living in other types of housing. Next, the most significant factor affecting mental health was the degree of wall cracks. Finally, a new approach was developed to assess and prioritize the mental health of rural residents by using degrees of housing safety and smart technology in seismically active regions. The telemedicine assessment approach is expected to be used in the future for mental health evaluation and the large-scale data scoring of rural residents.

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Realizing safe and reliable vital sings monitoring with wireless body area networks

Kikuzuki

Ida

Ninomiya

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference

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Application of a Telemedical Tool in an Isolated Island and a Disaster Area of the Great East Japan Earthquake

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Prevalence Waterborne Infections after Earthquakes Considered as Serious Threat to Increasing Victims in Disaster-Affected Areas

Prevalence Waterborne Infections after Earthquakes Considered as Serious Threat to Increasing Victims in Disaster-Affected Areas

Telemedicine Assessment for the Mental Health of Rural Residents Based on the Safety Degree of Housing in Seismically Active Regions

Realizing safe and reliable vital sings monitoring with wireless body area networks

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