2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-5391.2012.01176.x
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Lessons learned from the Wenchuan earthquake

Abstract: Successful experience from Wenchuan Earthquake could be summarized as: one goal as people-oriented life-rescuing. Two tasks as medical rescue for diseases of those injured and healthcare & anti-epidemic for safe and sound of those lives. Three strategies respectively as medical transfers after on-site triage, treatment for severe diseases in quake-hit areas and rehabilitation in non quake-hit areas for medical rescue, and quick post-quake evaluation, quick promotion for whole coverage and scientific regulation… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
6
0

Year Published

2014
2014
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
8

Relationship

1
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 12 publications
(6 citation statements)
references
References 21 publications
0
6
0
Order By: Relevance
“…The rescue operation following the earthquake rested on the four centralization principles [2]. The Sichuan Provincial Health Administration organized the rescue and, during the second day after the earthquake, the National Health and Family Planning Commission selected the most highly qualified medical specialists with seismic experience to form a national expert medical team to guide the rescue operations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The rescue operation following the earthquake rested on the four centralization principles [2]. The Sichuan Provincial Health Administration organized the rescue and, during the second day after the earthquake, the National Health and Family Planning Commission selected the most highly qualified medical specialists with seismic experience to form a national expert medical team to guide the rescue operations.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For these two methods, convenient transportation for mass casualties and the deployment of staff and resources are particularly required, and the establishment of an integrated air-ground transport system is particularly important. In recent years, the "four centralized response" principle, which is the centralized management of casualties, experts, resources, and treatment for medical rescue, has been developed on the basis of China's accumulated experiences with major disaster rescue [21]. Centralized response has become a principle with Chinese characteristics for responding to major disasters.…”
Section: Centralized Response To Maximize the Effectiveness Of Limitementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Humanitarian relief has become a core task for defense forces. For example, the Chinese military played a key role in the emergency response and disaster relief during the Wenchuan earthquake [ 14 ]. After the earthquake, the Chinese army dispatched 215 medical, epidemic prevention, psychological assistance, and field medical equipment maintenance teams and 7000 servicemen.…”
Section: Vulnerabilitymentioning
confidence: 99%