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An Investigation into the Resilience of Medical Institutions in Response to Disasters - In Case of Emergency Medical Centers in Seoul -

의료기관의 재난 대응 회복탄력성에 대한 기초 조사 - 서울 소재 응급의료센터를 대상으로 -

  • 김영애 (건양대 의료공간디자인학과) ;
  • 이현진 (건양대 의료공간디자인학과)
  • Received : 2021.03.25
  • Accepted : 2021.06.23
  • Published : 2021.07.30
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Abstract

The medical institution is one of pivotal facilities that are required of rapid resilience in the event of various disasters. It is a critical management infrastructure that should respond to infectious diseases, a space that weak patients reside in, and a facility that is vulnerable to building deterioration and extreme weather as well. In this token, the present study aims to provide with some directions for facility reinforcement by investigating the current states of resilience of hospitals in responding to accidental disasters. The investigating members surveyed about 30 hospitals in Seoul with emergency medical centers, and web-crawled through the Python program on Google search engines. As for each hospital, the number of searches for 93 key words of 18 disaster types ranged from 11,000 to 400. It is revealed that the most searched types were computerizations and communications, followed by infectious diseases, security, and fire in the case of temporary shocks or accident types. In-hospital medical errors, which are constant pressure factors differently from its frequency, appear infections, others, and pollutions in order.

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Acknowledgement

이 연구는 2021년도 한국연구재단 연구비 지원에 의한 결과의 일부임. 과제번호:2020R1A2C1-100849

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