Appendix A

Preliminary Literature Review Strategy

The committee conducted a primary literature review at the beginning of its deliberations and the articles obtained by this preliminary literature review were then assessed by the committee and staff for relevance to the committee’s charge. The search parameters for this primary review of the literature are detailed below. This is not an exhaustive list of all research conducted as additional, targeted searches were conducted throughout the course of the committee’s work as new areas of focus emerged and additional information was gathered through public sessions, workshops, and webinars.

Search Parameters

• Date range: 1980–present
• Type: Peer-review/grey literature
• Range: International, English only

Databases Reviewed

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
• Embase
• Medline
• News Abstracts
• PAIS
• Periodicals Abstracts
• ProQuest
• PsycInfo
• PubMed

• Scopus
• SocINDEX
• Worldcat

Primary Search Terms

• Morbidity
• Mortality

AND

Primary Search Terms

• Disaster impact
• Disaster preparedness
• Disaster-related
• Hazard
• Large-scale disasters
• Natural disasters
• Natural hazard

AND KEY WORDS

Causalities

• Chronic illness/injury/disease
  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Dialysis
  • End-stage renal disease
  • Noncommunicable diseases
  • Nursing homes
• Death certification
• Death certification process
• Death certification timeliness
• Death counts
• Death data
• Death scene investigation
• Death statistics
• Death tolls
• Direct deaths/injury
• Disability
• Excess death
• Excess morbidity
• Excess mortality

• Indirect deaths/injury
• Infectious diseases
• Quality-adjusted life-year

Crisis Coordination

• Agency capacity
• Capacity
• Crisis coordination
• Crisis management
• Disaster mortuary operation teams
• Incident Command System
• Incident management
• Medical examination
• Military government coordination
• Red Cross
• Risk assessment
• Risk planning

Emergency Preparedness

• Displacement
• Emergency management
• Emergency preparedness
• Emergency responders
• Emergency response

Human-Induced Disaster

• Bioterrorism
• Biowarfare
• Mass shootings
• Terror attacks
• Terrorism
• Warfare

Infrastructure

• Collapses
• Infrastructure failure
• Structural failures

Insurance

• Funeral assistance
• Home insurance
• Life insurance

Medicolegal

• Medical law
• Medicolegal

Natural Disasters

• Avalanche
• Blizzard
• Cold wave
• Cyclone
• Drought
• Earthquake
• Floods
• Heat wave
• Hurricane
• Landslide
• Mudslide
• Sinkhole
• Tornado
• Typhoon
• Volcano
• Wildfire
• Winter storm

Psychosocial Health

• Interviews
• Medical examinations
• Psychosocial health

Public Health

• Community mental health
• Lasting effects of disasters
• Medical examination
• Neighborhood social processes
• Public health communications
• Public health policies

Social Determinants of Health

• Social capital
• Social networks

Survey Implementation/Data Collection

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Data collection capabilities
• Disaster data collection
• Electronic death registration system
• Electronic health records
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Formative assessment
• National Center for Health Statistics
• Network scale-up method
• Sampling
• Summation method
• Survey monitoring
• Years of potential life lost

Vulnerable Populations

• Affected populations
• At-risk
• Culturally appropriate
• Disability
• Hidden populations
• Marginalized
• Vulnerability assessment
• Vulnerable populations

PubMed Search Strategy Example

((((“disasters”[MeSH] OR “weather”[mesh] OR “geological phenomena”[mesh] OR disaster*[tiab] OR post-disaster[tiab] OR “relief planning”[tiab] OR “climatic processes”[MeSH] OR “climatic processes”[tiab] OR hurricane*[tiab] OR tornado*[tiab] OR typhoon*[tiab] OR cyclone*[tiab] OR earthquake*[tiab] OR flood*[tiab] OR storm*[tiab] OR drought*[tiab] OR tsunami*[tiab] OR snow[tiab] OR rain[tiab] OR “tidal wave”[tiab] OR “tidal waves”[tiab] OR landslide*[tiab] OR wildfire*[tiab] OR “forest fire”[tiab] OR “forest fires”[tiab] OR avalanche*[tiab] OR volcan*[tiab] OR blizzard*[tiab] OR lightning[tiab] OR windstorm*[tiab] OR snowstorm*[tiab] OR fire[tiab] OR windstorm*[tiab] OR “heat wave”[tiab] OR “heat waves”[tiab] OR heatwave*[tiab] OR blizzard*[tiab] OR sinkhole*[tiab]

This page intentionally left blank.