Earthquake Injury Epidemiology for Mitigation and Response

在研究支持和努力方面投入了大量资源， 地震灾害的减灾问题， 过去二十年。 这项研究工作的大部分都是针对 地球物理研究和结构工程的问题。 这种努力的支出是完全适当的， 推进对潜在现象的科学理解 地震损失负责。 可悲的事实是， 地震继续吞噬着人类。 具体 地震中的死亡和受伤机制还没有被 广泛研究的主题。 尤其是， 是什么让那些幸存者和那些死去的人有了区别 迄今为止，尚无有效的地震伤害流行病学领域 和预防 虽然有迹象表明， 从几个领域的个别研究人员的兴趣，这个话题有 遭遇了许多跨学科问题的命运。 已经 被几个学科边缘化处理，但不被接受为 任何特定研究小组的核心责任。 自然环境伤害流行病学国际研讨会 灾害将被组织起来。 讲习班有两个目的： 评价和讨论过去事件的现有信息， 以及为今后的数据制定一套实用的准则 收藏.

Significant resources in research support and effort have been expended on the problem of earthquake hazard mitigation over the past twenty years. Most of this research effort has been directed toward questions of geophysical research and structural engineering. This expenditure of effort has been entirely appropriate in terms of advancing scientific understanding of the underlying phenomena responsible for earthquake losses. The tragic fact is that earthquakes continue to consume human beings. The specific mechanisms of death and injury in earthquakes have not yet been the subject of extensive study. In particular, very little is known as to what distinguished those who survive from those who do not. As yet, there is no effective field of earthquake injury epidemiology and prevention. While there have been indications of promise and interest from individual researchers in several fields, this topic has suffered the fate of many transdisciplinary problems. It has been dealt with peripherally by several disciplines, but not accepted as the central responsibility of any particular research group. An international workshop on the epidemiology of injuries in natural disasters will be organized. The purpose of the workshop is twofold: evaluation and discussion of existing information from past events, and the formulation of a practical set of guidelines for future data collection.