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"Emergency Response in Rural Areas" offered for open access for the month of November

Rural Regions at High Risk for Ebola Outbreak

By IGI Global on Nov 4, 2014
Rural Regions At High Risk For Ebola Outbreak The Ebola virus has claimed almost 5,000 lives since March, sparking the implementation of defense measures around the world to protect citizens from the contagious disease.

On Tuesday, October 28, Australia became the first developed country to shut its borders to citizens of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak, a move those states said stigmatized healthy people and would ultimately obstruct prevention. On October 24, governors of New Jersey and New York ordered a mandatory, 21-day quarantine of all medical workers and other arriving airline passengers who have had contact with victims of the deadly disease in West Africa.

While the world’s larger cities and communities design and integrate protection plans for containing contagious disease such as Ebola, rural areas remain unprotected and unprepared. Ironically, it was in such rural regions that the virus supposedly originated, claiming unsuspecting victims unable to receive proper diagnosis and treatment in necessary time.

USA Today reported, “While much of the fight against Ebola in West Africa focuses on highly populated cities, often overlooked are rural areas where inadequate infrastructure and health care fuel its spread. The lack of any medical facilities for hundreds of miles in these remote regions of Sierra Leone — like in neighboring Liberia and Guinea — is a main reason the country is failing to gain control of the crisis.”

Communities in Africa have organized outreach programs to provide information and support to those who might not be fully informed on details of the spreading disease, but it is nearly impossible to reach all the native tribes and independent communities in the country. Rural areas are obviously less connected and harder to reach, bringing the next question: What is the best way to implement emergency response in rural areas?

The IGI Global article, "Emergency Response in Rural Areas" relays a study coordinated in rural parts of Sweden, investigating new ways of organizing for efficient response in the face of emergency. Discussing new ways of organizing for efficient response are explored through extended collaboration between societal sectors and in the utilization of local social capital. New categories of first responders and their requirements are identified, and technical and non-technical solutions as support are proposed. The solutions include mobile applications and a technical infrastructure making it possible for volunteers to obtain information about events requiring emergency response.

This article, by Sofie Pilemalm (Department for Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), Rebecca Stenberg (Department of Social and Welfare Studies, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden) and Tobias Andersson Granberg (Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden), is from the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), an academically rigorous outlet for research into crisis response and management. IJISCRAM focuses on the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of IS technologies and methodologies to support crisis response and management. This journal covers all aspects of the crisis management information systems discipline, from organizational issues to technology support to decision support and knowledge representation. High quality submissions are encouraged using any qualitative or quantitative research methodology, focusing on the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of such systems. Access "Emergency Response in Rural Areas" here.

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