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Mutual Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Recent Earthquakes: A Scoping Review of the Lessons Learned

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2022

Nasrin Sayfouri Open the ORCID record for Nasrin Sayfouri [Opens in a new window] ,
Mohammad Heidari Open the ORCID record for Mohammad Heidari [Opens in a new window]  and
Seyedeh Samaneh Miresmaeeli Open the ORCID record for Seyedeh Samaneh Miresmaeeli [Opens in a new window]
Nasrin Sayfouri
Affiliation:
School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Heidari*
Affiliation:
Community-Oriented Nursing Midwifery Research Center, Nursing and Midwifery School, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran
Seyedeh Samaneh Miresmaeeli
Affiliation:
Department of Health in Emergency and Disaster, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
*
Corresponding author: Mohammad Heidari, Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Objective:

The aim of this study was to review the articles dealing with the mutual impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the recent earthquakes to elicit the various scopes of the lessons learned including the challenges, the successful measures, and the recommendations.

Methods:

To detect the relevant studies published between February 1, 2020, and June 9, 2021, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar were searched. Having considered specific inclusion/exclusion criteria, 18 studies were included.

Results:

Seven major earthquakes have occurred concurrently or before the pandemic era in Albania, Croatia, Haiti, Great East Japan, Mexico, Nepal, and Utah. Thematic analysis revealed 5 themes for the “challenges” (management inefficiency, increased life-threatening, economic, socially related, and dual psychological challenges); 4 themes for the “efficient response measures” (health-care services measures, government measures, community-based cooperative activities, and disaster management response); and 3 major themes with 7 sub-themes for the “recommendations” including “the mitigation phase” (identifying probable natural disasters), “the preparedness phase” (preparing necessary equipment), and “the response phase” (mental care response measures, health-care-related COVID-19 measures, economic improvement measures, recognizing community-based capabilities, and government-related boosting measures).

Conclusions:

It is suggested that these scopes of the mutual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the earthquakes be studied in systematic reviews.

Keywords

COVID-19earthquakesdisasters
Type
Systematic Review
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 17 , 2023 , e188
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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