Analysis of the intellectual and social structure of health system response plan to earthquake studies adopting word co‑occurrence and narrative approaches
نویسندگان
1 Department of Surgery, School of Medicine Craniofacial and Cleft Research Center, Imam Hossein Children Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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3 Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Health, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Health in Emergencies and Disasters, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
5 Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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چکیده
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Earthquake is a natural disaster severely affecting the societies’ health,hygiene, and welfare as such the most effective method to respond to its damages is to develop areadiness plan. This study aimed to discover thematic patterns and co‑author relationships extractedfrom relevant publications to plan an earthquake response.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This descriptive–analytical study adopted the scientometric approachand used word co‑occurrence and social network analysis. The published articles indexed in PubMedwere retrieved from 1970 to 2021 using a combination of keywords “earthquake and response.” Thedata were analyzed in VOSviewer, UCINET, and NetDraw software.RESULTS: The following six thematic clusters with a social map were extracted: Initial response ofthe healthcare system, response to probabilistic risks after the hazard, response to mental health andcommunity resilience, response to public health, response to post‑traumatic stress disorders, andstaff’s response to the needs assessment and continuity of diagnostic treatment services. Moreover,social network analysis revealed the great impact of Japanese and Chinese authors and institutes.CONCLUSION: The present study detected many gaps in the literature on earthquake response,which can contribute to developing a general framework to prepare integrated healthcare earthquakeresponse plans to promote the performance of this system.
