Public health and natural hazards: new policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study

Westcott, Rachel; Ronan, Kevin R.; Bambrick, Hilary; Taylor, Melanie

doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12897

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“…However, University of California Los Angeles and Georgetown University owned the highest value of citations per document of 23.61 and 19.32, respectively. Figure 2B shows 35 institutions had contributed at least 10 publications, the US CDC collaborated with the most institutions (23).…”

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“…[13][14][15][16][17] Bibliometrics analysis is used to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the historical evolutions and trends of publications in a certain field, 18 which can also be used to evaluate scientific performance of individual authors or institutions 19 and discover the main topics and frontiers. 20 Global scholars have published a substantial number of papers on PHEP, [21][22][23] and previous reviews had characterized the knowledge growth and gaps in this field. 7,21,[24][25][26][27] However, to the best of our knowledge, no bibliometric analysis of PHEP is available to date.…”

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Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

Lin

Qiu

Peng

et al. 2020

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objectives: To access the trends and focuses of publications on public health emergency preparedness in the timeframe 1997-2019. Methods: Publications related to public health emergency preparedness (PHEP) were retrieved from the Web of Science Core Collection database. Bibliometric analyses including output statistics, co-authorship analysis, citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-occurrence analysis were performed and mapped using VOSviewer. Results: A total of 1058 publications on PHEP were included in this study. There was an increasing trend of publication output and citations since 2002. A total of 4605 authors from 1587 institutes and 92 countries contributed to the publications, and the United States lead the field. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness was the most active and co-cited journal among 243 journals. The knowledge foundation mainly focused on the professionals’ capacity, education, and conceptions of PHEP. Epidemics, natural disasters, terrorism, education, and communication were the principle topics; while “vulnerable populations,” “disaster medicine,” and “hurricane” were the recent hotspots in this field. Conclusions: Significant progresses had been achieved worldwide in the past 2 decades, however, improvement of research activity and international collaboration is still a need for most countries.

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Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Qiu

Peng

et al. 2020

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…Several qualitative studies produced evidence that can inform disaster planning and preparedness. For example, interviews with disaster response personnel, farmers and animal owners in South Australia about community fire preparedness identified three core practical initiatives: workplace catastrophic day leave, financial incentives to individuals to become bushfire‐ready, and changes to farming practices 12 . A US‐based study examined a dual intervention of mental health first aid (MHFA) and guided preparedness planning to enhance disaster mental health preparedness and community resilience in both urban and rural areas 13,14 .…”

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Beyond the black stump: rapid reviews of health research issues affecting regional, rural and remote Australia

Osborne¹,

Piper²,

Alston³

et al. 2020

Medical Journal of Australia

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Chapter 1: Retail initiatives to improve the healthiness of food environments in rural, regional and remote communities Objective: To synthesise the evidence for effectiveness of initiatives aimed at improving food retail environments and consumer dietary behaviour in rural, regional and remote populations in Australia and comparable countries, and to discuss the implications for future food environment initiatives for rural, regional and remote areas of Australia. Study design: Rapid review of articles published between January 2000 and May 2020. Data sources: We searched MEDLINE (EBSCOhost), Health and Society Database (Informit) and Rural and Remote Health Database (Informit), and included studies undertaken in rural food environment settings in Australia and other countries. Data synthesis: Twenty‐one articles met the inclusion criteria, including five conducted in Australia. Four of the Australian studies were conducted in very remote populations and in grocery stores, and one was conducted in regional Australia. All of the overseas studies were conducted in rural North America. All of them revealed a positive influence on food environment or consumer behaviour, and all were conducted in disadvantaged, rural communities. Positive outcomes were consistently revealed by studies of initiatives that focused on promotion and awareness of healthy foods and included co‐design to generate community ownership and branding. Conclusion: Initiatives aimed at improving rural food retail environments were effective and, when implemented in different rural settings, may encourage improvements in population diets. The paucity of studies over the past 20 years in Australia shows a need for more research into effective food retail environment initiatives, modelled on examples from overseas, with studies needed across all levels of remoteness in Australia. Several retail initiatives that were undertaken in rural North America could be replicated in rural Australia and could underpin future research. Chapter 2: Which interventions best support the health and wellbeing needs of rural populations experiencing natural disasters? Objective: To explore and evaluate health and social care interventions delivered to rural and remote communities experiencing natural disasters in Australia and other high income countries. Study design: We used systematic rapid review methods. First we identified a test set of citations and generated a frequency table of Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) to index articles. Then we used combinations of MeSH terms and keywords to search the MEDLINE (Ovid) database, and screened the titles and abstracts of the retrieved references. Data sources: We identified 1438 articles via database searches, and a further 62 articles via hand searching of key journals and reference lists. We also found four relevant grey literature resources. After removing duplicates and undertaking two stages of screening, we included 28 studies in a synthesis of qualitative evidence. Data synthesis: Four of us read and assesse...

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“…Risk awareness is a key to human responsiveness and safety [63]. A recent study of 26 Norwegian municipalities documents that, although the intentions of risk-based management has been required for 20+ years, it has not been practiced [64].…”

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Reducing Wooden Structure and Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Disaster Risk through Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management

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Vandvik

Velle

et al. 2020

ASI

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In recent years, severe and deadly wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires have resulted in an increased focus on this particular risk to humans and property, especially in Canada, USA, Australia, and countries in the Mediterranean area. Also, in areas not previously accustomed to wildfires, such as boreal areas in Sweden, Norway, and in the Arctic, WUI fires have recently resulted in increasing concern. January 2014, the most severe wooden town fire in Norway since 1923 raged through Laerdalsøyri. Ten days later, a wildfire raged through the scattered populated community of Flatanger and destroyed even more structures. These fires came as a surprise to the fire brigades and the public. We describe and analyze a proposed way forward for exploring if and how this increasing fire incidence can be linked to concomitant changes in climate, land-use, and habitat management; and then aim at developing new dynamic adaptive fire risk assessment and management tools. We use coastal Norway as an example and focus on temporal changes in fire risk in wooden structure settlements and in the Norwegian Calluna vulgaris L. dominated WUI. In this interface, the fire risk is now increasing due to a combination of land-use changes, resulting in large areas of early successional vegetation with an accumulation of biomass, and the interactive effects of climatic changes resulting in increased drought risk. We propose a novel bow-tie framework to explore fire risk and preventive measures at various timescales (years, months, weeks, hours) as a conceptual model for exploring risk contributing factors and possibilities for risk management. Ignition is the top event of the bow-tie which has the potential development towards a fire disaster as a worst case outcome. The bow-tie framework includes factors such as changes in the built environment and natural habitat fuel moisture content due to the weather conditions, WUI fuel accumulation, possibly improved ecosystem management, contribution by civic prescribed burner groups, relevant fire risk modeling, and risk communication to the fire brigades and the public. We propose an interdisciplinary research agenda for developing this framework and improving the current risk understanding, risk communication, and risk management. This research agenda will represent important contributions in paving the road for fire disaster prevention in Norway, and may provide a model for other systems and regions.

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Public health and natural hazards: new policies and preparedness initiatives developed from an Australian bushfire case study

Cited by 11 publications

References 41 publications

Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

Global Research on Public Health Emergency Preparedness From 1997 to 2019: A Bibliometric Analysis

Beyond the black stump: rapid reviews of health research issues affecting regional, rural and remote Australia

Reducing Wooden Structure and Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Disaster Risk through Dynamic Risk Assessment and Management

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