Prospective Study on the Potential Use of Satellite Data for Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, and Mitigation in Poland

Goniewicz, Krzysztof; Magiera, Maciej; Burkle, Frederick M.; Goniewicz, Mariusz

doi:10.1017/s1049023x20000321

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“…These measures should be practiced continuously to create both staff and public awareness of all problematic decisions that must be made by leaders and easily comprehended by the public. A reliable fail-safe information system is necessary [40,41]. It should be independent of all sociopolitical relations to avoid misinformation and confusion that can be associated with short-term wins.…”

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Current Response and Management Decisions of the European Union to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review

Goniewicz¹,

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COVID-19 has proven to be a formidable challenge for many countries in the European Union to manage effectively. The European Union has implemented numerous strategies to face emerging issues. Member States have adopted measures such as the closure of borders and significant limitations on the mobility of people to mitigate the spread of the virus. An unprecedented crisis coordination effort between Member States has facilitated the ability to purchase equipment, personal protective equipment, and other medical supplies. Attention has also been focused on providing substantive money for research to find a vaccine and promote effective treatment therapies. Financial support has been made available to protect worker salaries and businesses to help facilitate a return to a functional economy. Lessons learned to date from COVID-19 in the European Union are many; the current crisis highlights the need to think about future pandemics from a population-based management approach and apply outside the box critical thinking. Due to the complexity, intensity, and frequency of complex disasters, global leaders in healthcare, government, and business will need to pivot from siloed approaches to decision-making to embrace multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary levels of cooperation. This cooperation requires courage and leadership to recognize that changes are necessary to avoid making the same mistakes we have planned countless times on avoiding. This study focuses on the European Union’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting with how the European Union first learned and processed the global information arising out of China, followed by the incremental population-based medicine/management decisions made that currently are defining the European Union’s capacity and capability. The capacity to organize, deliver, and monitor care to a specific clinical population under a population-based management target includes strict social distancing strategies, contact testing and tracing, testing for the virus antigen and its antibodies, isolation, and treatment modalities such as new mitigating medications, and finally, a vaccine.

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Current Response and Management Decisions of the European Union to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review

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“…While future training on general disaster response and preparedness and command center activities to enhance the collaborations between stakeholders seems to be crucial, additional areas of improvement needed for managing the impacts of future episodes of floods requires the development of national preparedness and training guidelines for hospitals in SA, including full-scale disaster exercises to measure the effectiveness of preparedness and response [39][40][41][42]. Directions for future research should focus on the differences in terms of preparedness among hospitals belonging to governmental sectors (MOH, MOE, MODA, MOI, and SANG) in order to tailor training programs according to regional-and/or hospital-specific contexts and needs, and should also direct additional focus on all hazard responses, command center operations, and communications [43][44][45][46][47].…”

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A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

Al-Wathinani

Alakeel

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This study used a descriptive cross-sectional methodology to measure healthcare workers’ knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and willingness to respond to a flood scenario in Saudi Arabia. A validated survey was distributed to collect data using a convenience sampling technique through multiple social media platforms. A total of 227 participants were included in this study: 52% of them were aged between 26 to 34 years, 74% were residents from Riyadh, and 52.4% worked in nursing divisions. A significant number of respondents (73.2%) had positive perceptions towards their hospitals’ ability to provide an effective response to a flood, 89% were willing to report to work following a flood, and 90% of participants reported the need to develop both guidelines and training for flood disaster preparedness. Preparation and successful flood mitigation in the hospital setting requires staff that have both knowledge and training in emergency management. One way to obtain such readiness is through competency-based training, including both table-top and full-scale live exercises. Although the willingness to respond to such a flooding emergency was high among staff, the development of guidelines and educational programs is needed in order to develop the competencies and skills sets to improve disaster preparedness response and preparedness efforts.

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“…Goniewicz and Burkle [52] developed an IT system for Poland's Protection Against Extreme Hazards (ISOK); this system works to reduce the damages of physical and moral disasters to citizens by developing a crisis and risk management mechanism. In a similar way, another important system was implemented in Poland called the Sat4Envi project; this system works to gather, share, and promote for the environment by analyzing satellite images and obtain data related to disasters in order to forecast disasters in study by Goniewicz et al [53].…”

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A Conceptual Design of Smart Management System for Flooding Disaster

Ibrahim

Mishra

2021

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Disasters pose a real threat to the lives and property of citizens; therefore, it is necessary to reduce their impact to the minimum possible. In order to achieve this goal, a framework for enhancing the current disaster management system was proposed, called the smart disaster management system. The smart aspect of this system is due to the application of the principles of information and communication technology, especially the Internet of Things. All participants and activities of the proposed system were clarified by preparing a conceptual design by using The Unified Modeling Language diagrams. This effort was made to overcome the lack of citizens’ readiness towards the use of information and communication technology as well as increase their readiness towards disasters. This study aims to develop conceptual design that can facilitate in development of smart management system for flooding disaster. This will assist in the design process of the Internet of Things systems in this regard.

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Prospective Study on the Potential Use of Satellite Data for Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, and Mitigation in Poland

Cited by 11 publications

References 24 publications

Current Response and Management Decisions of the European Union to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review

Current Response and Management Decisions of the European Union to the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Review

A Cross-Sectional Study on the Flood Emergency Preparedness among Healthcare Providers in Saudi Arabia

A Conceptual Design of Smart Management System for Flooding Disaster

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