Document Type : Editorials

Authors

• Mohammad Javad Moradian ¹
• Ali Ardalan ²
• Amir Nejati ³
• Ali Darvishi Boloorani ⁴
• Ali Akbarisari ⁵
• Behnaz Rastegarfar ⁶

¹ MD, MPH, PhD Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Trauma Research Center, Shahid Rajaee (Emtiaz) Trauma Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

² 1- Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2- Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard Chan School of Public Health

³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Department of Remote Sensing & GIS, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

⁵ Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

⁶ 1- Department of Disaster Public Health, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3- Department of Disaster and Emergency Health, I.R. Iran’s National Institute of Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Keywords

• Disaster
• Field hospital
• Preparedness phase
• Site Selection
• Stockpile