Baiguera, M;
Rossetto, T;
Palomino, JS;
Dias, P;
Lopez-Querol, S;
Siriwardana, C;
Hasalanka, H;
... Robinson, DI; + view all
(2021)
A New Relative Risk Index for Hospitals Exposed to Tsunami.
Frontiers in Earth Sciences
10.3389/feart.2021.626809.
(In press).
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Abstract
The 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 on 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 3 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 buildings 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A New Relative Risk Index for Hospitals Exposed to Tsunami |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/feart.2021.626809 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.626809 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2021 Baiguera, Rossetto, Palomino, Dias, Lopez-Querol, Siriwardana, Hasalanka, Ioannou and Robinson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Tsunami risk, Relative risk index, Hospitals, Tsunami engineering, Disaster Risk Reduction |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124511 |
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