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Emergency preparedness of the Czech Red Cross
| Autoři | |
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| Rok publikování | 2014 |
| Druh | Článek ve sborníku |
| Konference | WIT Transactions on Information and Communication Technologies |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
| Citace | |
| Obor | Řízení, správa a administrativa |
| Klíčová slova | Emergency preparedness; The Red Cross; Czech Republic; rescue system |
| Popis | The risks of modern society and the emergency incidents of the recent years (Haiti 2010, Japan 2011) remind us of the importance of crisis management. The world-wide International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent take their places there also Compared with the recent world disasters (e. g. Haiti, 2010 – 250 thousand dead, 300 thousand injured and 1.5 million homeless people) we can say that the Czech Republic faces only emergency incidents without such bigger disastrous consequences, yet they can still be disastrous. In the period from 1997 to 2010, the Czech Republic was affected by 8 floods, during which 116 persons died and the damage was almost 8,5 billion USD. The Czech Red Cross (hereinafter CRC) is a part of the national emergency system. There are no actual and systematically examined data for its crisis management. Therefore the aim of this paper is to design a survey for emergency preparedness within crisis management, both in the area of planning and managing the Czech Red Cross crisis management. The result will be the presentation of data from an implemented preliminary research, discussion of the survey design and a final summary of the survey with recommendations and limitations. Description, comparison and the model ideal state method are the proposed survey methods. They are used in three stages [1] preliminary research implemented at the regional level, [2] research on the entire territory of the Czech Republic, [3] and examples of a good practice. We consider the importance of survey results in their practical implementation [1] into the concept of long-term emergency preparedness of the CRC, [2] into the State Rescue System of the Czech Republic, [3] and for an international comparison with other National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Over 80 million people from 188 countries are volunteers in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and it is undoubtedly necessary to manage them. |