Cultural-Religious Approach: An Effective Community-Based Disaster Management Strategy for Reducing the Mortality and Morbidity of the Fourth Wave of Coronavirus Pandemic Caused by the Lineage B.1.1.7 (the British Variant) in Iran (Spring 2021)

Hossein Ghaedamini; Hamid Jafari; Salman Farahbakhsh; Hesan Arefi; Zahra Saghafi

doi:10.21315/mjms2022.29.1.16

Cultural-Religious Approach: An Effective Community-Based Disaster Management Strategy for Reducing the Mortality and Morbidity of the Fourth Wave of Coronavirus Pandemic Caused by the Lineage B.1.1.7 (the British Variant) in Iran (Spring 2021)

Malays J Med Sci. 2022 Feb;29(1):154-156. doi: 10.21315/mjms2022.29.1.16. Epub 2022 Feb 23.

Authors

Hossein Ghaedamini¹, Hamid Jafari², Salman Farahbakhsh³, Hesan Arefi⁴, Zahra Saghafi⁵

Affiliations

¹ Geriatric Care Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
² Department of Medical Emergencies, Sirjan School of Medical Sciences, Serjan, Iran.
³ Department of Occupational Health, School of Medical Sciences, Sirjan Faculty of Medical Sciences, Serjan, Iran.
⁴ Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
⁵ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Geriatric Care Research Center, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.

Abstract

Lineage B.1.1.7 (the British variant) is a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. The virus was first identified in the UK in October 2020. Since Iran is one of the most disaster risk countries in the world, disaster management is one of the most important issues. One of the effective approaches of this field is community-based disaster management (CBDM). Altogether, planning and policy-making through using various cultural-religious role models with emphasis on the cultural points can be useful to reduce the mortality and morbidity rate caused by the fourth wave of coronavirus in Iran.

Keywords: COVID-19; Iran; community-based disaster management.