Interactions between climate and COVID-19

JD Ford, C Zavaleta-Cortijo, T Ainembabazi… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Summary In this Personal View, we explain the ways that climatic risks affect the
transmission, perception, response, and lived experience of COVID-19. First, temperature …

A scoping review of non-professional medication practices and medication safety outcomes during public health emergencies

D Kelly, A Koay, G Mineva, M Volz, A McCool… - Public health, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives Public health emergencies (PHE) can disrupt personal medication practices and
increase the risk of medication-related harm and other negative medication-related …

A fuzzy hybrid MCDM approach for assessing the emergency department performance during the COVID-19 outbreak

M Ortíz-Barrios, N Jaramillo-Rueda, M Gul… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The use of emergency departments (EDs) has increased during the COVID-19 outbreak,
thereby evidencing the key role of these units in the overall response of healthcare systems …

Alarming drop in early stage colorectal cancer diagnoses after COVID-19 outbreak: a real-world analysis from the Italian COVID-DELAY study

G Mentrasti, L Cantini, C Zichi, N D'Ostilio… - The …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has triggered the disruption of
health care on a global scale. With Italy tangled up in the pandemic response, oncology care …

Camping, weather, and disasters: extending the construal level theory

CA Craig, S Ma, I Karabas, S Feng - Journal of Hospitality and Tourism …, 2021 - Elsevier
Camping is an outdoor accommodation and type of recreation that is susceptible to weather
and climate change. Camping—in addition to the relationships camping shares with weather …

Reimagining natural hazards and disaster preparedness: charting a new course for the future

K Goniewicz, MNI Sarker, M Schoch-Spana - BMC public health, 2023 - Springer
(2023) 23: 581 efforts, and engaging in community outreach to ensure that everyone is on
the same page. Training for mass casualty incidents and disasters should be conducted …

Nurse practitioner led model of after-hours emergency care in an Australian rural urgent care Centre: health service stakeholder perceptions

E Wilson, LC Hanson, KE Tori, BM Perrin - BMC health services research, 2021 - Springer
Background The challenges of providing and accessing quality health care in rural regions
have long been identified. Innovative solutions are not only required but are also vital if …

Global emergency medicine: a scoping review of the literature from 2021

SM Kivlehan, BJ Hexom, J Bonney… - Academic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The objective was to identify the most important and impactful peer‐reviewed
global emergency medicine (GEM) articles published in 2021. The top articles are …

Case series: managing severe mental illness in disaster situation: the Croatian experience after 2020 earthquake

S Medved, AS Imširagić, I Salopek, D Puljić… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
On the 29th of December 2020, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Petrinja in the Croatian
Sisak-Moslavina County experienced a strong earthquake, resulting in a severe disruption …

Exposure to a virtual reality mass-casualty simulation elicits a differential sympathetic response in medical trainees and attending physicians

MA Tovar, JA Zebley, M Higgins… - … and disaster medicine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Background: Previous studies have demonstrated the use of virtual reality (VR) in mass-
casualty incident (MCI) simulation; however, it is uncertain if VR simulations can be a …