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Tools for evaluating disasters: preliminary results of some hundreds of disasters

 

作者: J DE BOER,  

 

期刊: European Journal of Emergency Medicine  (OVID Available online 1997)
卷期: Volume 4, issue 2  

页码: 107-110

 

ISSN:0969-9546

 

年代: 1997

 

出版商: OVID

 

关键词: disasters;evaluation;classification

 

数据来源: OVID

 

摘要:

Epidemiologic research of disasters is hampered by a lack of uniformity and standardization in describing these events. By applying a classification and scoring system, which recently became available, an analysis could be performed of 416 disasters from the past 40 years. Only 79 references were useful in obtaining reliable figures for a scoring on the Disaster Severity Scale (DSS). The various disaster types show a relationship between the DSS-scoring on the one hand, and the severity factor (S) and the number of dead and wounded («) on the other. It is concluded that the classification and scoring system used could serve as a tool for evaluating the majority of disasters. A small improvement of this system is recommended

 

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