Critiquing Disaster Nursing Competencies in Relation to International Standards Writhing Resilient Health Care System in Saudi Arabia

• 作者: Samah Banajah
• 来源期刊: 美中公共管理:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: DISASTER NURSING DISASTER NURSING PREPAREDNESS DISASTER NURSING RESPONSE
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（4）
• 页码范围: 181-197
• 页数: 17页
• 分类号: D035

摘要

Globally,around 6,457 weather-related disasters,such as earthquakes,floods,cyclones,and landslides,claimed 606,000 lives and affected more than four billion people between 1995 and 2015,according to an international disaster data base.According to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters(CRED),since 2015,when 346 weather-related disasters were reported,these figures have been increasing,with approximately 205 million people now affected each year.Tragically,the statistic extremely elevated in 2017,in which catastrophic natural losses were 93 percent higher than the 2000-2016 average(knowledge platform for disaster risk reduction,2018).These statistics do not include casualties arising from non-natural,human-made disasters,such as war,stampedes,terrorism,transport accidents,and even infectious outbreaks.