Background
Methods
Academic literature identification
Business continuity | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (business continuity or organisational resilience or business interruption or adaptive capacity or strategic or coordination).ti,ab. | |
5. 3 and 4 | |
6. limit 5 to yr = "1990 -Current" | |
Hazard analysis | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (hazard analysis or risk factor or risk assessment or forecasting simulation or modelling).ti,ab. | |
5. 3 and 4 | |
6. limit 5 to yr = "1990 -Current" | |
Capability assessment or maintenance | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (capability assessment or capability maintenance or gap analysis or needs assessment or drill or simulation or preparedness training).ti,ab. | |
5. 3 and 4 | |
6. limit 5 to yr = "1990 -Current" | |
Recovery | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (significant event analysis or serious untoward incident$ or root cause analysis or debrief or organi?ational learning or rehabilitation).ti,ab. | |
5. 3 and 4 | |
6. limit 5 to yr = "1990 -Current" | |
Communications/ informatics | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (communication$ or mass media or public relations or information system$ or information service$).ti,ab. | |
5. 3 and 4 | |
6. limit 5 to yr = "1990 -Current" | |
Organisational behaviour | 1. Disasters/pc |
2. (emergency response or emergency preparedness or emergency plan$ or emergency operation plan$ or disaster or major incident$ or incident plan$).ti,ab. | |
3. 1 or 2 | |
4. (community engagement or community involvement or participatory involvement or participatory engagement or consumer participation or organi?ational behavio?r or health personnel or human resources).ti,ab. | |
5. *"Attitude of Health Personnel"/ | |
6. *Interprofessional Relations/ | |
7. 4 or 5 or 6 | |
8. 3 and 7 | |
9. limit 8 to yr = "1990 -Current" |
Grey literature identification
Literature analysis and synthesis
Results
Academic literature review
Number of publications | %age publications | Number of EMDAT entries 1990–2011 n = 13378 | %age EMDAT entries from high income countries (n = 2777) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Country | ||||
UK | 47 | 3.0 | 86 | 3.1 |
US/Canada | 701 | 45.4 | 755 | 27.2 |
Europe (not UK) | 114 | 7.4 | 937 | 33.7 |
Japan | 45 | 2.9 | 149 | 5.4 |
Australasia | 26 | 1.7 | 359 | 12.9 |
Other high-income | 51 | 3.3 | 491 | 17.7 |
Low/middle-income | 178 | 11.5 | 10601 | |
Multiple | 75 | 4.9 | ||
Unspecified | 308 | 19.9 |
Number academic publications | %age academic publications | Number of grey documents | %age of grey documents | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Disaster type | ||||
Natural eg earthquake | 339 | 21.9 | 16 | 16.5 |
CBRN | 135 | 8.7 | 44 | 45.4 |
Terrorism | 119 | 7.7 | 8 | 8.2 |
Outbreak/epi/pandemic | 89 | 5.8 | 7 | 7.2 |
Industrial | 42 | 2.7 | 12 | 12.3 |
Transport | 35 | 2.3 | 2 | 2.1 |
Generic | 647 | 41.9 | 5 | 5.2 |
Multiple | 84 | 5.4 | 3 | 3.1 |
Other | 55 | 3.5 | ||
Publication type | ||||
Commentary/editorial | 422 | 9 | 9.3 | |
Event report | 371 | 74 | 76.3 | |
Expert guidance | 122 | 4 | 4.1 | |
Survey | 118 | |||
Educationalist | 75 | 1 | 1 | |
Modelling | 73 | |||
Narrative review | 51 | 1 | 1 | |
Systematic review | 11 | |||
RCT | 2 | |||
Other | 300 | 8 | 8.2 |
Theme | Number of academic publications | %age of academic publications* | Number of grey documents | %age of grey documents* |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mitigation | 50 | 3.1 | 18 | 18.6 |
Hazard analysis | 124 | 7.8 | 27 | 27.8 |
Capability assessment | 167 | 10.5 | ||
Emergency planning | 391 | 24.5 | 30 | 30.1 |
Capability maintenance | 235 | 14.7 | 10 | 10.3 |
Emergency response | 557 | 34.9 | 53 | 54.6 |
Recovery | 177 | 11.1 | 27 | 27.8 |
Development plans | 91 | 5.7 | ||
Communications/mass media | 156 | 9.8 | 35 | 36.1 |
Informatics and intelligence | 183 | 11.5 | 26 | 26.8 |
Other organisational issues | 183 | 11.5 | 35 | 36.1 |
Event report (n = 362) | Narrative review (n = 53) | Systematic review (n = 11) | Modelling (n = 73) | Survey (n = 118) | RCT (n = 2) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mitigation | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
Hazard analysis | 7 | 3 | 29 | 8 | ||
Capability assessment | 17 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 45 | 1 |
Emergency planning | 57 | 24 | 4 | 19 | 33 | |
Capability maintenance | 34 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 1 |
Emergency response | 219 | 19 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 1 |
Recovery | 49 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
Development plans | 16 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||
Communications/ mass media | 33 | 3 | 3 | 8 | ||
Informatics/ intelligence | 28 | 3 | 21 | 7 | ||
Other organisational issues | 32 | 8 | 1 | 9 |