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Ries, Markus: Towards Better Preparedness for Future Catastrophes: Lessons Learned from Civil-Military Pandemic Response, Heidelberg: heiBOOKS, 2024. https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1331

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https://doi.org/10.11588/heibooks.1331
ISBN 978-3-911056-04-5 (PDF)
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04/18/2024

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Markus Ries

Towards Better Preparedness for Future Catastrophes

Lessons Learned from Civil-Military Pandemic Response

This work is a scientific analysis of the operational experience of COVID-19 disaster relief in Heidelberg, Germany, between 2020 and 2022. Civil-military cooperation during the pandemic has made valuable contributions to strengthening the resilience of society as a whole – probably at a high price. The mitigation potential can be limited for all stakeholders if a healthcare system is already overloaded in routine operations. In the future, it will be important to reduce bureaucracy, to break the ‘panic-then-forget’ cycle through sustainable, holistic disaster preparation, to establish timely operational readiness, and to master the “infodemic” in a world of social media.

Professor Markus Ries, M.D., Ph.D., M.H.Sc., M.A., FCP is a board-certified pediatrician at Heidelberg University Hospital and Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg, the Institute for Advanced Study of Heidelberg University, Germany. As lieutenant colonel he coordinated the disaster relief efforts of 788 soldiers from 20 military units in the cross-sectoral COVID-19 pandemic response in the Heidelberg region between 2020 and 2022. His research areas include resilience from a whole-society systems-based and a anticipatory lessons-learned perspective, as well as neurogenetic diseases, drug development and vulnerable groups (especially children).

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Table of Contents
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Title
Dedications
Table of Contents
5-9
Figures and Tables
11-13
Inventory of abbreviations
15
Executive summary
17-22
Introduction
23-35
Methods
37-47
Results
49-174
Discussion
175-193
Conclusion
195
Epilogue
197-198
References
199-208
Quality control instruments: Research checklists
209-215

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