Coordinating the Provision of Health Services in Humanitarian Crises: a Systematic Review of Suggested Models

In conclusion, five coordination models have been implemented worldwide in different disasters in order to coordinate the delivery of health services. These results should serve policymakers, and administrators of entities delivering health services during and post-humanitarian crises to choose from a number of options on how to coordinate their efforts. It is challenging to provide specific guidance on which model to use. However, we suggest that decision makers prioritize models that, based on the presented case studies, have been used in settings similar to theirs, such as the type of disaster or the countries in which the crisis is taking place. There is a need to conduct further research to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the identified models, specifically in terms of availability of healthcare services and access to health services. Appendices Appendix 1: Medline, EMBASE, Scopus, CINAHL, WHO Global Health Library, PsychInfo, and Cochrane Search strategies Medline Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1946 to March Week 1 2014> Search Strategy: 1 exp Refugees/ (6558) 2 refugee*.ti,ab. (5394) 3 exp War/ (30340) 4 (war or wars).ti,ab. (25791) 5 disasters/ or exp disaster planning/ or exp emergency shelter/ or exp mass casualty incidents/ (23240) 6 (disaster* or tsunami* or earthquake* or volcan* or hurricane* or cyclone*).ti,ab. (20082) 7 (mass adj2 casualt*).ti,ab. (1355) 8 exp earthquakes/ or exp tsunamis/ or exp volcanic eruptions/ (2...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Source Type: research