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  • Disaster Medicine
  • Social Network Analysis

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  • Effective interagency coordination is crucial for managing disaster medicine and public health preparedness during extreme events.
  • Understanding information flow in informal networks is key to reducing risks and coordination costs in disaster response.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore information-sharing environments within informal networks for disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
  • To analyze the pattern of information flow among actors in disaster medicine using social network analysis.
  • To propose a framework and method for studying inter-organizational networks in disease outbreak response.

Main Methods:

  • Social network analysis was employed to evaluate information flow patterns.
  • Surveys and interviews were conducted with 70 health professionals during the 2009 swine influenza A (H1N1) pandemic.
  • Qualitative and quantitative data were collected to understand inter-organizational network dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Informal network degree centrality positively correlated with performance, indicating that more informal links improved individual performance.
  • Informal networks effectively transmit both strong ties (e.g., disease information) and weak ties (e.g., casual acquaintances).

Conclusions:

  • Informal networks significantly enhance disaster medicine and public health preparedness.
  • These networks promote community-based, ad hoc, and formal networks, leading to more effective overall preparedness.