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A Model for Evaluation of Disaster Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Edmund M. Ricci
Edmund M. Ricci
Affiliation:
From the Graduate School of Public Health and the Resuscitation Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, USA.
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Our ability to manage disaster relief activities at regional, national or international levels of socio-political organization has, according to many analysts, not kept pace with the knowledge and technical capability presently available to contend with disasters. In a report released in 1977 a panel of experts assembled by the United Nations Association characterized disaster relief efforts as being routinely mismanaged. For example, the panel described what has been considered one of the better organized disaster relief efforts (the 1976 earthquake in Guatamala) in the following way.

Type
Part I: Research-Education-Organization
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 30 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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