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Spatial suitability evaluation and layout optimization of emergency shelter: A case study in Tianhe District of Guangzhou City.
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Guangzhou Xinhua University, School of Resources and Planning, Guangzhou, 510520, China.
Emergency shelters are multifunctional spaces that provide safe refuge, essential life protection, and rescue command for residents in case of urban disaster. These shelters constitute crucial components of urban public safety. This study, with Tianhe District in Guangzhou City as a case study, used data from emergency evacuation sites and other socio-economic sources to construct an evaluation system for spatial suitability evaluation and layout optimization of emergency shelters.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai200120, China.
Objectives: Compared with first-tier cities in China that are of abundant funds and resources like legions of high-level hospitals, the degree of nurses' disaster nursing preparedness in non-first-tier cities (inland) is relatively lower. For example, nurses' knowledge reserve of specific disasters is not comprehensive enough. And nurses are diffident when it comes to the skills of handling disaster rescue.
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Bureau of Health Services, World Trade Center Health Program, Fire Department of the City of New York, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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Background: Bystander-administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is crucial for the survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. However, only roughly 58% of bystanders would provide CPR, with wide variations across different regions. Identifying each factor affecting the barrier or readiness to perform resuscitation is a significant challenge for researchers.
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