Publication

Disaster Hospital Preparedness: National Plan

Author(s)

Dr. Hamid Reza Khankeh and colleagues

Year

2012

Language

Persian

BISAC Code

MED019000 (Medical / Emergency Medicine), MED105000 (Medical / Administration)

Scopus Subject Area

Emergency Medicine Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

Target Audience

Hospital administrators, Emergency and disaster management professionals, Healthcare policymakers, Public health practitioners

Citation Info

Khankeh HR, et al. Disaster Hospital Preparedness: National Plan. 2nd ed. Tehran: University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences 2012.

EndNote

summary

This book sets out a national model for hospital preparedness in response to accidents and disasters, aimed at helping hospitals and healthcare centers strengthen their resilience and response capacity. It opens by addressing disaster planning, hospital safety and vulnerability assessment, and the development of hospital and economic preparedness programs, including sample provincial and hospital-level health management plans. Subsequent chapters provide a detailed protocol for designing rapid-warning systems, guidance for activating hospital disaster command systems, and a structured incident command framework covering operations, planning, logistics, and finance units at the departmental level. The book also includes a comprehensive guide to disaster response planning, illustrated with a fire-incident response example, along with supporting appendices and a glossary of terms. It was produced through collaboration among the country’s medical emergency management center, the research center for non-communicable disaster injuries, and the university’s health services authorities, with the aim of providing hospitals nationwide with a unified model for disaster readiness.