Components of Health Surveillance System in Natural Disasters that Affect Military Health Services: A Systematic Review
Abstract
Background: Military health surveillance system, as the first responder in natural disasters, plays an important role in public health. This study aimed to identify those components of the health surveillance system, which influence military health services in natural disasters.
Methods: Five databases of Medline, SCOPUS, Web of Science, ProQuest, Cochrane Library, and search engines of Scholar Google, scienceopen.com, openGery.eu, and WHO.int were reviewed from Jan 1990 to Jan 2022. Due to the heterogeneity of the included studies, various JBI quality assessment tools were applied and the extracted data were analyzed by meta-synthesis method.
Results: Out of 6538 retrieved studies, after the duplicates and irrelevant studies identified in screening stage were removed, 174 studies extracted from the electronic search of databases and 16 studies retrieved from the manual search of other sources were reviewed based on the study inclusion criteria. Finally, 24 studies with inclusion criteria were selected for data extraction. Ten criteria of monitoring, detecting, data collection and reporting, tracking, type of surveillance system, operational readiness, coordination and interaction, feasibility, flexibility, and acceptability were identified as effective components in the surveillance system of military health services. The identified components were classified into two main categories of structural and operational components.
Conclusion: The structural components of the military health surveillance system describe the important infrastructural features of the health surveillance system to preparing for natural disasters; and the operational components explains the effective functional features of military health surveillance system in response of natural disasters. The results of this study help policymakers in military health services implement a more effective health surveillance system in natural disasters.
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2. Hyndman D, Hyndman D (2016). Natural hazards and disasters. Fifth ed. Cengage Learning.
3. Kharb A, Bhandari S, Moitinho de Almeida M, et al (2022). Valuing Human Impact of Natural Disasters: A Review of Methods. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(18):11486.
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5. Thacker SB, Stroup DF (2006). Public Health Surveillance. In: Applied Epidemiology: Theory to Practice. Ed(s).
6. Khan Y, Schwartz B, Johnson I (2014). Surveillance and epidemiology in natural disasters: a novel framework and assessment of reliability. PLoS Curr, 10:6.
7. Malilay J, Mariana GR, Ramirez Vanegas A, Non E, Sinks T (1996). Public health surveillance after a volcanic eruption: lessons from Cerro Negro, Nicaragua, 1992. Bull Pan Am Health Organ ,30 (3):218-26.
8. Cookson ST, Buehler JW (2014). Emergency and disaster health surveillance. Ahrens W. Pigeot I, editors. Handbook of Epidemiology. New York: Springer:731-59.
9. Teh D, Khan T (2021). Types, Definition and Classification of Natural Disasters and Threat Level. Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: New Frameworks for Building Resilience to Disasters,27.
10. Batts D, Fleischauer A, Noe R, Wolkin A, Rubin C, Wise W (2007). Improving post natural disaster surveillance for effective decision making. Epidemiology, 18:S83-S84.
11. Sharp TW, Yip R, Malone JDJJ (1994). US military forces and emergency international humanitarian assistance: observations and recommendations from three recent missions. JAMA, 272(5):386-390.
12. DE SANTÉ DFA (2022). International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services. International Committee of Military Medicine, 95:3.
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14. Leaning J, Guha-Sapir D (2013). Natural disasters, armed conflict, and public health. N Engl J Med, 369(19):1836-1842.
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19. Vaismoradi M, Turunen H, Bondas T (2013). Content analysis and thematic analysis: Implications for conducting a qualitative descriptive study. Nursing & Health Sciences, 15:398-405.
20. Mayet A, Santi VPD, Manet G, et al (2010). A(H1N1) influenza surveillance in the french armed forces: Adapting the surveillance systems to the pandemic setting. Medecine et Maladies Infectieuses, 40:404-411.
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44. Jia P, Yang S (2020). Early warning of epidemics: towards a national intelligent syndromic surveillance system (NISSS) in China. BMJ Glob Health, 5(10):e002925.
45. Mayet A, Duron S, Nivoix P,et al (2011). Novel influenza A(H1N1) outbreak among French armed forces in 2009: Results of Military Influenza Surveillance System. Public Health, 125(8):494-500.
46. Groseclose SL, Buckeridge DL (2017). Public health surveillance systems: recent advances in their use and evaluation. Annu Rev Public Health, 38:57-79.
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Naderi M, Khoshdel AR, Sharififar ST, Dabbagh Moghaddam A, Zareiyan A. Components of Health Surveillance System in Natural Disasters that Affect Military Health Services: A Systematic Review. Iran J Public Health. 2023;52(9):1788-1802.
