Title
Computing hospital system resilience: A supply-demand perspective
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Mitrani-Reiser J.
Kiremidjian A.
Deierlein G.G.
Stanford University
Publisher(s)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Abstract
Earthquakes put heavy strains on hospital systems during the disaster emergency response phase. Damage to hospitals and supporting infrastructure disrupts critical hospital functions and damage to the built environment in the hospital's catchment community causes injuries that require medical treatment. As a result, a compromised hospital system can result in decreased "supply" as "demand" increases. These two components are key to the analysis of hospital-system resilience in earthquake-prone areas. This study (1) examines relevant techniques to assess both multiseverity earthquake casualties and loss of hospital functionality following earthquakes, (2) provides a method for combining casualty and hospital functionality estimation to assess the earthquake resilience of the hospital system, and (3) highlights the importance of these outputs for emergency planners and other stakeholders in order to enhance the resilience of cities. An illustration of the methodology is included through an application to the city of Lima, Peru, subjected to an 8.8 Mw earthquake.
Start page
246
End page
250
Volume
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias del cuidado de la salud y servicios (administraciĂ³n de hospitales, financiamiento) Ciencias de la computaciĂ³n
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85085472846
Resource of which it is part
11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy
ISBN of the container
978-151087325-4
Conference
11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy, NCEE 2018
Sponsor(s)
This research was supported by NSF EAGER Grant No. 1196842 and the Shah Family Fellowship through the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
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