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000019789 04107 $$aeng
000019789 046__ $$k2017-01-09
000019789 100__ $$aFavier, Philomene
000019789 24500 $$aImpact on Chilean Hospitals Following the 2015 Illapel Earthquake

000019789 24630 $$n16.$$pProceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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000019789 520__ $$2eng$$aIn a post-disaster environment, hospitals play a critical role in healthcare services continuities to the population while effectively coping with eventual losses of functionality. These losses come from physical damage to the facility, loss of utility lifelines, failure in supply chains, and reduction of personnel. However, data describing the detailed performance of hospitals during past earthquakes are scarce. Consequently, following the 2015 Mw 8.3 Illapel earthquake in central Chile, an exhaustive field campaign was carried out in the Coquimbo region to collect substantial perishable data to describe physical damage to hospitals and functionality losses. This study presents first the baseline information obtained in nine surveyed government hospitals, including size, location and type of infrastructure. Then, the seismic impact was analyzed and classified to show the main physical structural and non-structural damage, lifeline interruptions, losses in hospital units, and variations in flow of patients and staff. Transfers, discharges and evacuations of patients that occurred after the event were also reported. We found that the earthquake did not affect strongly the healthcare service despite the fact that most of the structural and non-structural damage was localized in the largest regional hospital. The archival nature of the data collected may deepen our understanding of the post-earthquake healthcare system performance, which is very useful in improving disaster preparation and overall resilience.

000019789 540__ $$aText je chráněný podle autorského zákona č. 121/2000 Sb.
000019789 653__ $$ahospital resilience, loss of functionality, healthcare network, seismic performance, earthquake data collection.

000019789 7112_ $$a16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering$$cSantiago (CL)$$d2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13$$gWCEE16
000019789 720__ $$aFavier, Philomene$$iRivera, Felipe$$iPoulos, Alan$$iVasquez, Jorge$$iLlera, Juan Carlos De La$$iJudith, Mitrani-Reiser
000019789 8560_ $$ffischerc@itam.cas.cz
000019789 8564_ $$s616123$$uhttps://invenio.itam.cas.cz/record/19789/files/4415.pdf$$yOriginal version of the author's contribution as presented on USB, paper 4415.
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