FINAL PAPER DISASTER MANAGEMENT IN CHINA A CASE STUDY ON THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE OR THE GREAT SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE ECONOMIC‚ POLITICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CHINA China is located in East Asia. It is bordering the East China Sea‚ Korea Bay‚ Yellow Sea‚ and South China Sea‚ between North Korea and Vietnam. Officially China is the People ’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ founded in 1949 after the Communist Party defeated the previously dominant nationalist Kuomintang
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who is brought to the emergency department after collapsing at her residence. Just prior to the incident‚ the patient is reported to have been acting “confused.” Upon arrival to the emergency department‚ the patient is having difficulty breathing with an increased respiratory rate and pulse. The nurse is unable to complete the initial examination before the patient becomes unresponsive and has increased work of breathing. At this point‚ it is necessary to active an emergency response team and begin
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Disaster‚ which can be classified into nature and man-made‚ occurs in many forms: floods‚ wind‚ fire‚ explosions‚ extreme range of environmental temperatures‚ epidemics‚ multiple car crashes with many casualties‚ school shootings‚ and environmental contamination from chemical agents and/or bioterrorism (Maurer‚ & Smith‚ 2016). Disaster can be divided into three phases‚ pre-impact‚ impact and post-impact. Pre-impact phase is the phase before the disaster happens. In the phase the Nursing interventions
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Examples are flooding‚ fire‚ electrical outage. Code Triage External: the activation of the organizations Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) to respond to an external event that has disrupted‚ or may disrupt‚ the facility’s normal operations. Examples are fog-related incidents‚ multi-casualty car crashes‚ and earthquakes. When we activate Code Triage Internal and
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BUSINESS ETHICS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ASSIGNMENT I. CSR practices by Maruti Suzuki & Maytas Infra ltd. A) CSR by Maruti Suzuki India Ltd. Employee welfare Company will be deeply committed towards the welfare of its employees‚ their families and communities around its operations to improve quality of life as a whole. Practicing 3R (Reduce‚ Reuse and Recycle) The company has been promoting 3R since its inception. As a result the company has not only been able to recycle
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the risk of an catastrophe from happening in the first place. Here is what wikipedia has to say about disaster management: Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks. It is a discipline that involves preparing‚ supporting‚ and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur. In general‚ any Emergency management is the continuous process by which all individuals‚ groups‚ and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or
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Safety Audit Checklist Check all of the below mentioned points and write your comments and Remarks against each point for carrying out comprehensive safety audit . ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1. SAFETY POLICY • Mission Statement • Management Organisation & Responsibilities. • Statutory Compliance of BOCW Act. • Publicised/Communicated by tool box/display • Familiarity of the Employees • Get a Copy __________
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). . Retrieved June 12‚ 2014‚ from http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3711005.pdf Abortion‚ Conscience‚ and Health Care Provider Rights. (n.d.). Public Discourse. Retrieved June 7‚ 2014‚ from http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/07/5902/ Emergency contraception: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. (n.d.). U.S National Library of Medicine. Retrieved June 8‚ 2014‚ from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007014.htm
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Susceptibilities and Pandemic Outbreak’ assessment‚ (DESPO-Asia Appraisal 2015)‚ austerely warns of the worsening situation in the conjoint ’two-fold’ or ’bieffect aftermath’ of cyclone KOMEN and high tides from the heavy monsoon. According to the Global Emergency Overview by ACAPS‚ the recent flooding has been reported as "the worst flooding in 200 years." The torrential tides of cyclone Komen that have already swamped considerably abundant parts of Asia‚ carried high epidemics along with it; putting the
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India has the competence‚ capability and resources. As meteorologists warned of a monster storm ploughing towards India’s east coast‚ the country’s disaster preparedness teams snapped into action‚ pre-positioning emergency response teams and supplies‚ and evacuating nearly a million people – ultimately saving countless lives. The impressive show of disaster preparedness is thanks in large part to the lessons learnt after a powerful cyclone hit the country and killed
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