International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies & Disasters (IPREDIV 2016)
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When : 2016-01-10
Where : Tel Aviv
Submission Deadline : 2015-08-31
Categories : Health and Medicine , Environmental science
International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies & Disasters
(IPREDIV 2016)
Jan 10-13, 2016
Tel Aviv
Call For Papers
great success of the previous three IPRED conferences conducted in 2010, 2012, and 2014, IPRED IV will likewise provide a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences and lessons learned for practitioners and researchers involved in the field of preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters. To promote international networking between health care professionals in the fields of preparedness and response to emergencies and disasters. To enhance international research collaboration in the field of emergency and disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
Topics
- Disease outbreaks and epidemics, prevention and control
- Disaster scene investigation
- Decision making in emergencies and disasters
- Cyber terrorism and its implications on health services preparedness
- Community and municipal authorities in emergencies and disasters
- Adjusted standards and protocols in disaster medicine
- Evaluation of emergency preparedness and response
- Ethics in emergencies and disasters
- Emerging, conventional and CBRNe threats
- Emergency medicine in mass gatherings
- Emergencies and disasters nursing
- Disasters management - Command, Control, Coordination and Communication
- Lessons learned from recent emergencies and disasters
- Leadership in emergencies and disasters
- International humanitarian action
- Information systems in emergencies and disasters
- Human resource utilization during disasters
- Healthcare planning and optimization in emergencies and disasters
- Political considerations in emergency preparedness
- Natural disasters
- Military and civilian collaboration during emergencies
- Managing acute stress reactions following emergencies
- Maintaining public health following emergencies
- Logistic management of emergencies and disasters
- Surveillance and monitoring systems
- Search and rescue operations during disasters
- Safety and security of medical facilities
- Risk communication, social media, and public behaviour in emergencies and disasters
- Risk assessment and vulnerability reduction
- Promoting population and systems' resilience
- Terror as an epidemic
- Forensic medicine
- Volunteers in emergencies and disasters
- Technological innovations to facilitate disaster medicine
- Triage systems and mechanisms during disasters
- Training and exercises to promote emergency preparedness