Intervention strategies for improvement of disasters risk perception: Family‑centered approach
نویسندگان
1 Department of Health in Disaster and Emergencies, School of Health Management and Information Sciences, International Campus (IUMS-IC), Iran University of Medical Sciences, Candidate in Health in Disasters and Emergencies, Tehran, Iran
2 Department of Health in Disaster and Emergency, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
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چکیده
Introduction: Today, the role of people in crisis management plans is of particular importance dueto the prepared community approach. It is difficult or impossible to attract public involvement dueto the low level of public perception of risk. Therefore, it is necessary to discover the status of riskperception and its affecting factors. This study was conducted to investigate factors affecting thestrategies of disaster risk perception improvement.Materials and Methods: This systematic review study was conducted in 2017 using extensiveelectronic and library literature searches in the Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed electronicdatabases. The preliminary findings included 1030 studies. Out of 941 retrieved references, 925references were excluded because they did not meet the objectives of this review or did not focusdirectly on general population. Finally, 16 articles were selected for further investigation.Results: The extracted variables were divided into four general domains: personal, psychological,socioeconomic, and cultural factors. Personal characteristics included sex, age, marriage, level ofeducation, personal knowledge, and disaster personal experience. Psychological factors comprisedemotions (fear and insecurity), mental images (beliefs, attitudes), and internal and external control.Cultural factors such as, belief, values, norms, faith, religious, and protective spirit were effective ingeneral perception of disasters risk. Socioeconomic factors such as, income, livelihood, insurancecoverage, trust, and fair access to land and resources were also influential. The strategies to improvepublic disaster risk perception were educational, participatory, incentive, confidence building,supportive, managerial and cultural ones. A family‑centered approach is recommended for the betterimplementation of strategies.Conclusion: The improvement of risk perception requires government planning in different fieldssuch as education, research, health, and culture, with an emphasis on social groups especially family.
