. Seyed Mobin Moradi; . Mahmood Nekoei‑Moghadam; . Ahmad Abbasnejad; . Naser Hasheminejad
Volume 11, Issue 10 , November 2021, , Pages 1-16
Abstract
Both natural and man‑made disasters are increasing in occurrence at the world. Hospitals andhealth‑care centers are very complex and have a high potential for vulnerability depending ...
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Both natural and man‑made disasters are increasing in occurrence at the world. Hospitals andhealth‑care centers are very complex and have a high potential for vulnerability depending on externaland internal factors. Unfortunately, past experiences show that health‑care centers and the healthsystem are vulnerable to disasters. Therefore, risk analysis and safety assessment studies of hospitalsand other health‑care centers are absolutely necessary. This systematic review study was conductedon the basis of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‑Analyses guidelines.English language international databases (Pub Med, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, and GoogleScholar) were searched through January 1, 2000 up to June 20, 2019. The quality of the studies wasassessed using the International Narrative Systematic Assessment tool. From 3630 titles identified inthis search, 24 studies were selected. The important findings of this study were grouped into five maincategories: risk analysis method, type of disaster, hospital safety methods, hospital components andkey outcomes of risk analysis, and hospital safety assessments. The nature of disasters is a threatto the lives and property of the people, and therefore hospitals must be available at the incidentsand disasters and they must be able to respond to the needs of the disaster‑affected community.The probability of an incident and its consequences can never be reduced to zero; because theseverity of many natural and even man‑made disasters is unpredictable and the probability of theiroccurrence is different; however, it is possible to identify weaknesses and strengths through riskanalysis studies as well as hospital safety assessments and implement retrofitting programs basedon the type of risks and safety status and reduce the level of risk to an acceptable level.