Planning the unplanned: The role of a forward scout team in disaster areas. (October 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Planning the unplanned: The role of a forward scout team in disaster areas. (October 2016)
- Main Title:
- Planning the unplanned: The role of a forward scout team in disaster areas
- Authors:
- Tarif, B.
Merin, O.
Dagan, D.
Yitzhak, A. - Abstract:
- Abstract: Planning the mode of operation, manpower, and equipment, for a foreign medical team in a disaster-stricken area can be a difficult task, due to the chaotic nature of disasters. The important objective of arriving to the disaster-stricken area as soon as possible, in order to assist to as many victims as possible, is in constant tension with another important objective of arriving fully equipped and ready to such areas. Forward disaster scout teams (FDSTs) dispatched a few hours after the disaster are able to help plan foreign medical teams (FMTs) by gathering and relaying preliminary information after performing a situation analysis, locating the site of deployment for the FMT, and enabling logistic self-sufficiency. The purpose of this article is to share the lessons we have learned from our relatively long-standing experience of deployments in disaster-stricken areas. We also recommend a "to-do" checklist for FDSTs so that they perform their task of facilitating FMT readiness effectively.
- Is Part Of:
- International journal of disaster risk reduction. Volume 19(2016)
- Journal:
- International journal of disaster risk reduction
- Issue:
- Volume 19(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 19, Issue 2016 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 2016
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0019-2016-0000
- Page Start:
- 25
- Page End:
- 28
- Publication Date:
- 2016-10
- Subjects:
- Emergency management -- Periodicals
Risk management -- Periodicals
Disaster relief -- Periodicals
Hazard mitigation -- Periodicals
363.34 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22124209/ ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.08.017 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2212-4209
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