Analysis of the intellectual and social structure of health system response plan to earthquake studies adopting word co-occurrence and narrative approaches

Seyed Hossein Mousavi; Hamidreza Khankeh; Golrokh Atighechian; Mohammad H Yarmohammadian; Mehrdad Memarzadeh

doi:10.4103/jehp.jehp_1632_21

Analysis of the intellectual and social structure of health system response plan to earthquake studies adopting word co-occurrence and narrative approaches

J Educ Health Promot. 2022 Nov 26:11:362. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1632_21. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Seyed Hossein Mousavi¹, Hamidreza Khankeh², Golrokh Atighechian³, Mohammad H Yarmohammadian⁴, Mehrdad Memarzadeh⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health in Disaster and Emergencies, School of Management and Medical Information Sciences, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Research Center for Emergency and Disaster Health, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Department of Health in Emergencies and Disasters, Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
⁴ Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
⁵ Department of Surgery, School of Medicine Craniofacial and Cleft Research Center, Imam Hossein Children Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Background and aim: Earthquake is a natural disaster severely affecting the societies' health, hygiene, and welfare as such the most effective method to respond to its damages is to develop a readiness plan. This study aimed to discover thematic patterns and co-author relationships extracted from relevant publications to plan an earthquake response.

Materials and methods: This descriptive-analytical study adopted the scientometric approach and used word co-occurrence and social network analysis. The published articles indexed in PubMed were retrieved from 1970 to 2021 using a combination of keywords "earthquake and response." The data were analyzed in VOSviewer, UCINET, and NetDraw software.

Results: The following six thematic clusters with a social map were extracted: Initial response of the healthcare system, response to probabilistic risks after the hazard, response to mental health and community resilience, response to public health, response to post-traumatic stress disorders, and staff's response to the needs assessment and continuity of diagnostic treatment services. Moreover, social network analysis revealed the great impact of Japanese and Chinese authors and institutes.

Conclusion: The present study detected many gaps in the literature on earthquake response, which can contribute to developing a general framework to prepare integrated healthcare earthquake response plans to promote the performance of this system.

Keywords: Co-authorship network; co-word analysis; earthquake; narrative approach; response plan.