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Supporting the System: Emergency Medical Shelters Serving in the Aftermath of a Disaster

Henry, Danielle L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336682799

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2012, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
In the aftermath of a devastating disaster, access to even basic medical care may be limited or nonexistent. Many medical infrastructures are ill-prepared to handle the influx of cases and quickly become overtaxed. Hospitals can be damaged and rendered nonfunctional. The situation is exacerbated if the medical infrastructure was previously failing under normal circumstances. Hastily established refugee camps set up in the immediate hours and days following a natural disaster are typically unsanitary and unsafe. Under these conditions, simple abrasions can develop into more serious issues when proper facilities are not available. As a response, emergency medical shelters would be deployed into a disaster zone to provide more immediate, safer, and sanitary care to victims. They would be sent in as a modular unit system that could expand over time as additional modules are added to become a substantial field hospital. For effective pre-planning, units would be stored in various locations worldwide near areas prone to natural disasters. Final delivery to the site, following a disaster, would be via helicopter. Simple setup is required and would be accomplished within hours of delivery, typically by someone familiar with the unit and with the aid of the local community. Each unit would have the equipment and functioning systems, such as electricity and water, it needs built into it, allowing for self-sufficiency in at least the first few days. These emergency medical shelters would serve to temporarily alleviate the system and provide support until the health care system can stabilize to pre-disaster conditions.
Jeffrey Tilman, PhD (Committee Chair)
John Eliot Hancock, MARCH (Committee Member)
94 p.
Architecture
disaster; emergency; medical; shelter; ; ;

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  • Henry, D. L. (2012). Supporting the System: Emergency Medical Shelters Serving in the Aftermath of a Disaster [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336682799

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Henry, Danielle. Supporting the System: Emergency Medical Shelters Serving in the Aftermath of a Disaster. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336682799.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Henry, Danielle. "Supporting the System: Emergency Medical Shelters Serving in the Aftermath of a Disaster." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1336682799

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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