IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aza/jbcep0/y2014v7i4p347-364.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

A dynamic process of health risk assessment for business continuity management during the World Exposition Shanghai, China, 2010

Author

Listed:
  • Sun, Xiaodong
  • Keim, Mark
  • Dong, Chen
  • Mahany, Mollie
  • Guo, Xiang

Abstract

Reports of health issues related to mass gatherings around the world have indicated a potential for public health and medical emergencies to occur on a scale that could place a significant impact on business continuity for national and international organisations. This paper describes a risk assessment process for business continuity management that was performed as part of the planning efforts related to the World Expo 2010 Shanghai China (Expo), the world’s largest mass gathering to date. Altogether, 73 million visitors attended the Expo, generating over US$2bn of revenue. During 2008 to 2010, the Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention performed a dynamic series of four disaster risk assessments before and during the Expo. The purpose of this assessment process was to identify, analyse and evaluate risks for public health security during different stages of the Expo. This paper describes an overview of the novel approach for this multiple and dynamic process of assessment of health security risk for ensuring business continuity.

Suggested Citation

  • Sun, Xiaodong & Keim, Mark & Dong, Chen & Mahany, Mollie & Guo, Xiang, 2014. "A dynamic process of health risk assessment for business continuity management during the World Exposition Shanghai, China, 2010," Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 7(4), pages 347-364, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2014:v:7:i:4:p:347-364
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/4557/download/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    File URL: https://hstalks.com/article/4557/
    Download Restriction: Requires a paid subscription for full access.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    public health emergencies; risk assessment; vulnerability; 2010 World Exposition; public health; disaster management; mass gatherings; disasters; resilience; business continuity;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aza:jbcep0:y:2014:v:7:i:4:p:347-364. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Henry Stewart Talks (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.