A New Relative Risk Index for Hospitals Exposed to Tsunami

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dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorBaiguera M
dc.contributor.authorRossetto T
dc.contributor.authorPalomino J
dc.contributor.authorDias P
dc.contributor.authorLopez-Querol S
dc.contributor.authorSiriwardana C
dc.contributor.authorHasalanka H
dc.contributor.authorIoannou I
dc.contributor.authorRobinson D
dc.contributor.editorMagill CR
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-21T03:10:50Z
dc.date.available2024-08-21T03:10:50Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-31
dc.description.abstractThe failure of hospitals in recent tsunami have caused extensive social and economic losses. A simple but quantitative approach is required to assess the resilience of healthcare systems to tsunami, which relates not only to hospital building integrity, but also to maintaining hospital functionality. This paper proposes a new tsunami relative risk index (TRRI) that quantifies the impact of tsunami on critical units, (e.g. Intensive Care Unit, Maternity Ward, etc) in individual hospitals, as well as the impact on service provision across a network of hospitals. A survey form is specifically developed for collecting of field data on hospitals for the TRRI evaluation. In its current form TRRI is designed for hospital buildings of reinforced concrete construction, as these are the building types most commonly used worldwide for housing critical units. The TRRI is demonstrated through an application to three hospitals located along the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The TRRI is evaluated for three potential tsunami inundation events and is shown to be able to identify issues with both the building and functional aspects of hospital critical units. Three “what-if” intervention scenarios are presented and their effect on the TRRI is assessed. Through this exercise, it is shown that the TRRI can be used by decision makers to simply explore the effectiveness of individual and combined interventions in improving the tsunami resilience of healthcare provision across the hospital system.
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dc.identifier.citationBaiguera M, Rossetto T, Palomino J, Dias P, Lopez-Querol S, Siriwardana C, Hasalanka H, Ioannou I, Robinson D. (2021). A New Relative Risk Index for Hospitals Exposed to Tsunami. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9.
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/feart.2021.626809
dc.identifier.eissn2296-6463
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.number626809
dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/71353
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherFrontiers Media S.A.
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/earth-science/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.626809/full
dc.relation.isPartOfFrontiers in Earth Science
dc.rights(c) 2021 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjecttsunami risk
dc.subjectrelative risk index
dc.subjecthospitals
dc.subjecttsunami engineering
dc.subjectdisaster risk reduction
dc.titleA New Relative Risk Index for Hospitals Exposed to Tsunami
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.elements-id461226
pubs.organisational-groupCollege of Health
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