Background COVID-19 underscored the importance of building resilient health systems and
hospitals. Nevertheless, evidence on hospital resilience is limited without consensus on the …

Background Disasters are increasing worldwide, with Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being one
of the most prone regions. Hospitals play a key role in disasters. This study provides a …

Background Health care facilities are responsible for preventing and controlling diseases
and must be resilient enough to deal with crises. The Iranian health care facilities have faced …

The preparedness of a hospital for mass-casualty incident and disaster response includes
activities, programs and systems developed and implemented before the event. These …

The increasing frequency of natural hazards continues to stretch the operation of hospital
services. Hospitals are expected to remain fully operational during and in the immediate …

Objective: The disaster preparedness of nurses is important as nurses are members of a
health care team that needs to work systematically and collaboratively in all conditions …

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the challenges of hospital disaster risk
management so that it can take a step to provide strategies and interventions to remove …

Background COVID-19 highlighted the critical role that hospitals play throughout the
prolonged response and continuous recovery stages of the pandemic. Yet, there is limited …

Introduction Climate change is a long-term systematic climate variability caused by human
activities that alters the composition of the global atmosphere. Health systems should be …

The COVID-19 pandemic was declared by the World Health Organization on 11 March
2020. The rapid spread of SARS-CoV-2 required an equally rapid response from health …