Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters: A Review

Khan, Fary; Amatya, Bhasker; Gosney, James E.; Rathore, Farooq Azam; Burkle, Frederick M.

doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2015.02.007

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“…Rehabilitation in disaster setting includes: assessment of injury patterns, needs and resource requirements (including long-term); establishment of patient triage, discharge, referral, and tracking systems; collaboration with other healthcare service providers; coordination with emergency response systems, host health system and government managers; and data collection, management and analysis [13,14]. Long-term rehabilitation planning is critical for community recovery where services should be accessible, and include general health maintenance [2,14]. The treating team includes physical and rehabilitation medicine (PRM) physicians, nurses and allied health professionals.…”

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“…This highlights medical and non-medical rehabilitation (rehabilitation services, infrastructure, buildings etc.) as integral to comprehensive disaster management [2,15,16,17].…”

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“…Based on the aetiology, disasters can be classified into: a 'man-made'(war, conflict etc.) or 'natural' [2]. A 'natural disaster' is 'a situation or event caused by nature, which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to a national or international level for external assistance; an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction and human suffering' [3].…”

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Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Way Forward

Khan¹,

FA²,

Amatya³

2015

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confidence: 99%

“…This highlights medical and non-medical rehabilitation (rehabilitation services, infrastructure, buildings etc.) as integral to comprehensive disaster management [2,15,16,17].…”

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Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Way Forward

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FA²,

Amatya³

2015

IJNHS

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“…Many are confined to a specific geographic area 12,13 whilst others have cited the lack of available good quality evidence 10,11 , a common problem encountered in disaster management research [14][15][16][17] .…”

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“…Thus far, reviews have been carried out identifying immediate post-earthquake priorities in any country regardless of income status 2 , of public health interventions in a humanitarian crisis 7 , of operational humanitarian agencies in a post-earthquake low income country 8 , of acute medical complications associated with earthquakes 9 , of medical rehabilitation after natural disasters 10 , and of health effects associated with relocation after disasters 11 . Many are confined to a specific geographic area 12,13 whilst others have cited the lack of available good quality evidence 10,11 , a common problem encountered in disaster management research [14][15][16][17] .…”

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The changing health priorities of earthquake response and implications for preparedness: a scoping review

2017

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Evidence and gap map of studies assessing the effectiveness of interventions for people with disabilities in low‐and middle‐income countries

Saran

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Kuper

2020

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Background There are approximately 1 billion people in the world with some form of disability. This corresponds to approximately 15% of the world's population (World Report on Disability, 2011). The majority of people with disabilities (80%) live in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), where disability has been shown to disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged sector of the population. Decision makers need to know what works, and what does not, to best invest limited resources aimed at improving the well‐being of people with disabilities in LMICs. Systematic reviews and impact evaluations help answer this question. Improving the availability of existing evidence will help stakeholders to draw on current knowledge and to understand where new research investments can guide decision‐making on appropriate use of resources. Evidence and gap maps (EGMs) contribute by showing what evidence there is, and supporting the prioritization of global evidence synthesis needs and primary data collection. Objectives The aim of this EGM is to identify, map and describe existing evidence of effectiveness studies and highlight gaps in evidence base for people with disabilities in LMICs. The map helps identify priority evidence gaps for systematic reviews and impact evaluations. Methods The EGM included impact evaluation and systematic reviews assessing the effect of interventions for people with disabilities and their families/carers. These interventions were categorized across the five components of community‐based rehabilitation matrix; health, education, livelihood, social and empowerment. Included studies looked at outcomes such as, health, education, livelihoods, social inclusion and empowerment, and were published for LMICs from 2000 onwards until January 2018. The searches were conducted between February and March 2018. The EGM is presented as a matrix in which the rows are intervention categories (e.g., health) and subcategories (e.g., rehabilitation) and the column outcome domains (e.g., health) and subdomains (e.g., immunization). Each cell lists the studies for that intervention for those outcomes, with links to the available studies. Included studies were therefore mapped according to intervention and outcomes assessed and additional filters as region, population and study design were also coded. Critical appraisal of included systematic review was done using A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews’ rating scale. We also quality‐rated the impact evaluation using a quality assessment tool based on various approaches to risk of bias assessment. Results The map includes 166 studies, of which 59 are systematic reviews and 107 impact evaluation. The included impact evaluation are predominantly quasiexperimental studies (47%). The numbers of studies published each year have increased steadily from the year 2000, with the largest number published in 2017.The studies are unevenly distributed across intervention areas. Health is the most heavily populated area of the map. A total of 118 studies of th...

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Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters: A Review

Cited by 89 publications

References 25 publications

Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Way Forward

Medical Rehabilitation in Natural Disasters in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Way Forward

The changing health priorities of earthquake response and implications for preparedness: a scoping review

Evidence and gap map of studies assessing the effectiveness of interventions for people with disabilities in low‐and middle‐income countries

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