Impact on chilean hospitals following the 2015 Illapel earthquake

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dc.contributor.authorFavier, Philomène
dc.contributor.authorRivera Jofré, Felipe Andrés
dc.contributor.authorPoulos Campbell, Alan John
dc.contributor.authorVásquez P., Jorge
dc.contributor.authorLlera Martin, Juan Carlos de la
dc.contributor.authorMitrani-Reiser, Judith
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-16T14:13:24Z
dc.date.available2023-01-16T14:13:24Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn 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.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2023-01-16
dc.format.extent12 páginas
dc.fuente.origenSIPA
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.wcee.nicee.org/wcee/article/16WCEE/WCEE2017-4415.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/66334
dc.information.autorucEscuela de ingeniería ; Rivera Jofré, Felipe Andrés ; 0000-0002-4818-5521 ; 162284
dc.information.autorucEscuela de ingeniería ; Poulos Campbell, Alan John ; 0000-0001-8654-1024 ; 177702
dc.information.autorucEscuela de ingeniería ; Vásquez P., Jorge ; S/I ; 98273
dc.information.autorucEscuela de ingeniería ; Llera Martin, Juan Carlos de la ; 0000-0002-9064-0938 ; 53086
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoContenido completo
dc.publisherNational Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering
dc.relation.ispartofWorld Conference on Earthquake Engineering (16° : 2017 : Santiago, Chile)
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subjectHospital resilience
dc.subjectLoss of functionality
dc.subjectHealthcare network
dc.subjectSeismic performance
dc.subjectEarthquake data collection
dc.titleImpact on chilean hospitals following the 2015 Illapel earthquake
dc.typecomunicación de congreso
sipa.codpersvinculados162284
sipa.codpersvinculados177702
sipa.codpersvinculados98273
sipa.codpersvinculados53086
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