Recommendations on Achieving Healthcare Resilience Following Extreme Events
Abstract
The devastating losses that result from earthquakes have attracted enormous research attention. Ensuring the continuation of vital community services such as hospitalization is specifically critical for minimizing social losses after extreme events. This chapter presents guidance and recommendations based on previous events and guidelines for healthcare facilities to increase their functionality and resilience after seismic events, as well as the analytical analysis conducted using a new framework introduced by Hassan and Mahmoud to assess the functionality of the healthcare service while accounting for the interdependence among hospitals and among other infrastructure. Guidelines for improving the resilience of hospitals are provided that are based on historical cases. Existing guidelines are reviewed that are based on a case study of a hospital using a newly developed hospital functionality framework.
Recommended Citation
H. Mahmoud and E. M. Hassan, "Recommendations on Achieving Healthcare Resilience Following Extreme Events," Objective Resilience: Technology, pp. 211 - 234, American Society of Civil Engineers, Jan 2022.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784415900.ch7
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-078448376-3;978-078441590-0
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Jan 2022
