TY - GEN
T1 - Computing hospital system resilience
T2 - 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy, NCEE 2018
AU - Ceferino, L.
AU - Mitrani-Reiser, J.
AU - Kiremidjian, A.
AU - Deierlein, G. G.
N1 - Funding Information:
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.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85085472846
T3 - 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018: Integrating Science, Engineering, and Policy
SP - 246
EP - 250
BT - 11th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2018, NCEE 2018
PB - Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Y2 - 25 June 2018 through 29 June 2018
ER -