TY - GEN
T1 - Incorporating tacit knowledge of experts in the assessment of shelters under disaster
AU - Nakayama, Masaharu
AU - Ishii, Tadashi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a Grant-in-aid from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan (15K08799). We are extremely thankful to Misaki Arakawa, Mikiko Sato, Kumiko Tamura, and Yukie Kobayashi for the technical support they offered.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and IOS Press.
PY - 2020/6/16
Y1 - 2020/6/16
N2 - During disasters, prompt assessment of evacuation centres and appropriate measures taken based on the assessment are important for protecting local residents' lives and health. To clarify experts' tacit knowledge for improving the management of shelters under disaster, we conducted a questionnaire survey of specialists in disaster management to examine the assessment items to which they accorded top priority. Our results suggest that specialists give highest priority to the number of evacuees, followed by infrastructure and need for medical intervention. Identifying their common views on priorities can be the first step towards taking standard appropriate measures in evacuation centres.
AB - During disasters, prompt assessment of evacuation centres and appropriate measures taken based on the assessment are important for protecting local residents' lives and health. To clarify experts' tacit knowledge for improving the management of shelters under disaster, we conducted a questionnaire survey of specialists in disaster management to examine the assessment items to which they accorded top priority. Our results suggest that specialists give highest priority to the number of evacuees, followed by infrastructure and need for medical intervention. Identifying their common views on priorities can be the first step towards taking standard appropriate measures in evacuation centres.
KW - Disaster management
KW - Great East Japan Earthquake
KW - Shelter
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U2 - 10.3233/SHTI200422
DO - 10.3233/SHTI200422
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 32570639
AN - SCOPUS:85086937797
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 1321
EP - 1322
BT - Digital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of MIE 2020
A2 - Pape-Haugaard, Louise B.
A2 - Lovis, Christian
A2 - Madsen, Inge Cort
A2 - Weber, Patrick
A2 - Nielsen, Per Hostrup
A2 - Scott, Philip
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 30th Medical Informatics Europe Conference, MIE 2020
Y2 - 28 April 2020 through 1 May 2020
ER -