Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

Ayenew, Temesgen; Tassew, Sheganew Fetene; Workneh, Belayneh Shetie

doi:10.1016/j.afjem.2022.05.007

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“…38 Pharmacy national bodies along with health departments need to establish a comprehensive workforce management plan including identifying potential hazards, assessing risks, defining roles and responsibilities, and developing protocols and procedures for various scenarios in disasters. 36,48 Moreover, this plan could lead to preparing a pool of qualified personnel in advance, determining the number and types of personnel needed, as well as the necessary equipment, 31 supplies, 39 and facilities 41 required to support their efforts, providing transportation, 49 accommodation, 31,40 food, 33 and equipment 33 to support the workforce, ensuring the safety 39,50 and well-being of the workforce. Planning the post-disaster recovery 35 processes can provide the reintegration of the workforce into normal operations.…”

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Exploring Volunteer Pharmacists’ Experiences in Responding to 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Uzun,

Gülpınar,

Iqbal

2024

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: Pharmacists are vital in disaster response efforts, dispensing essential medications, managing pharmacy services, consulting, and educating survivors regarding their medications. Their contributions, however, are often underrepresented in scientific literature. This study aimed to explore the experiences of pharmacists who provided pharmacy services to meet the pharmaceutical needs of the survivors after 2 major earthquakes in Türkiye in 2023. Methods: This study adopted a phenomenological approach. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews. Purposive sampling was used to invite pharmacists who provided pharmacy services to survivors. Interview transcripts were analyzed following an inductive, reflexive thematic analysis. Results: In total, 15 pharmacists were interviewed. Four main overarching themes “response to the earthquake,” “preparedness for the earthquake,” “experiences during service delivery,” and “mental and physical experiences” were developed. Conclusions: From participants’ experiences, it is essential to expand the clinical responsibilities of pharmacists and train them in providing wound care, administering immunization, and prescribing. Pharmacists should be integrated as essential members of disaster health teams. International health organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and governments are encouraged to work collaboratively and develop disaster management plans including pharmacists in early responders. This might help mitigate the deficiencies and overcome challenges in health-care systems to provide effective patient-centered care by health professionals and respond effectively to disasters.

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“…Similar challenges were mentioned in previous studies. 31,33,[39][40][41] In addition, these challenges also negatively impacted the mental 7,[42][43][44] and the physical well-being 10,33,42 of volunteers, and could significantly impact their health. 40,45 Following a disaster, health-care professionals commonly experience distressing feelings.…”

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Exploring Volunteer Pharmacists’ Experiences in Responding to 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Uzun,

Gülpınar,

Iqbal

2024

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…Based on the finding of this study, familiarity with communication and connectivity is a sub-dimension related to disaster preparedness assessment. Appropriate communication can be one of the foundations for health emergency intervention planning, decision-making, and evaluation processes [18].…”

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“…Almost all hospitals have emergency and disaster plans, but not all have programs related to special hazard sub-plans. The hospital may require this to plan and simulate certain potential hazards that the hospital can handle [18]. The finding research of Aliakbari et al in 2022, showed that a disaster training program for nursing students has a positive impact on increasing disaster nursing competency [27].…”

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Disaster preparedness assessment in emergency department: a cross-sectional study

Khairina

Nelwati

Maisa

et al. 2023

Disaster Emerg Med J

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“…In the last two decades, the world has witnessed an enormous increase in the number of natural disasters, in turn resulting in serious casualties and significant financial loss (Eckhardt et al ., 2019; Deryugina 2022; Ayenew et al ., 2022). A report prepared by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reveals that, from 2000 to 2019, natural disasters were responsible for more than 1.23 million deaths as well as the economic loss of US$ 2.97 trillion (UNDRR, 2019).…”

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Disaster readiness assessment model using integrated statistical variance and proximity value index

Sutrisno

Wuisang

Yusupa

2023

IJES

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PurposeThe regular occurrence of natural disasters elevates the need for an effective method to measure organizational preparedness in responding to the adverse impact of disasters. In this context, this paper presents a new decision support model to assess organizational disaster preparedness using both subjective and objective disaster preparedness criteria in a multi-criteria decision-making context.Design/methodology/approachThe statistical variance method is integrated with the proximity value index (PVI) technique to determine priority scores in order to rank organizational disaster readiness.FindingsThe results of applying the integrated model developed herein enable decision-makers to make informed decisions for assigning priority ranking of organizational disaster preparedness in a simpler and more efficient way.Research limitations/implicationsHuman resource is the most impacting criterion affecting hospital preparedness in undertaking action to cure disaster victims.Practical implicationsThis paper offers an exemplar of a simple and efficient decision-making process considering the subjectivity associated with decision-making as well as the objectivity of data used for determining the priority ranking of organizational disaster preparedness.Originality/valueIntegrating statistical variance method with the PVI technique is novel and it has not been presented in previous studies. In fact, this study is the first to integrate both methods for selecting the priority ranking of organizational disaster preparedness.

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Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

Cited by 16 publications

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Exploring Volunteer Pharmacists’ Experiences in Responding to 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Exploring Volunteer Pharmacists’ Experiences in Responding to 2023 Türkiye Earthquakes: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study

Disaster preparedness assessment in emergency department: a cross-sectional study

Disaster readiness assessment model using integrated statistical variance and proximity value index

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