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Qualitative Study of Health System Preparedness for Successful Implementation of Disaster Exercises in the Iranian Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2020

Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri ,
Mohammad Mahdi Doustmohammadi ,
Syed Hossein Mousavi  and
Hamidreza Khankeh
Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri
Affiliation:
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Mohammad Mahdi Doustmohammadi
Affiliation:
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Syed Hossein Mousavi
Affiliation:
Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran
Hamidreza Khankeh*
Affiliation:
Health in Emergency and Disaster Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Hamidreza Khankeh, Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: hamid.khankeh@ki.se).
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Abstract

Objectives:

Implementing disaster exercises in different parts of the health system is one of the important steps in providing and developing disaster risk management plans. Considering the importance of promoting health system preparedness through exercise, the present study aimed to identify and explain necessary and original components for successful implementation of preparedness exercises of the health-care system in disaster.

Methods:

The study was a qualitative content analysis. Data were collected by purposeful sampling through in-depth and semi-structured individual interviews with 25 health professionals in disaster. Directed content analysis was used to analyze the data, which extracted the initial codes after performing the recorded interviews on paper and immersing them in the data analysis.

Results:

The data analysis resulted in the production of 100 initial codes, 14 subcategories, 6 main categories of “coordination and information management,” “standards and indicators,” “conduction and control of the process,” “logistic management and supplies,” “management of treatment operation,” and “management of health operation,” under the original theme of “implementation of exercise.”

Conclusions:

The findings of this study can greatly increase the attention of senior managers to preparedness in all areas of the health system, especially managers of prehospitals and hospitals who are the forefront of the response to the disaster. The findings of this study can be considered as a guideline for the implementation of principle and standardized health system preparedness exercises.

Keywords

emergencyexercisedisasterhealth systempreparedness

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Original Research
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2022 , pp. 500 - 509
Copyright
© 2020 Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.

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