title: What have we learned from Japan's major earthquake, tsunami and nuclear incident?
abstract: Ten months have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. Although we have tried our best to support the affected areas for te last ten months, people and hospitals in these areas are still suffering from various calamities and these include damage from the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear incident, harmful rumors, and manmade disaster. In this articles, various supportive efforts of the Japan Hospital Association (JHA) in the acute, mid-term, and long-term stages are described. Based on our experience, we propose to establish a new medical support system and reconstruction scheme for the health care delivery system in the affected areas.
authors.affiliation: Japan Hospital Association.
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakai
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D007564:Japan; D012954:Societies, Hospital