Corrigendum to “Impacts of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster on healthcare facilities: A systematic literature review” [Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduct. 42 (2020) 101350]

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 101481
Author(s):  
Sae Ochi ◽  
Claire Leppold ◽  
Shigeaki Kato
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

scholarly journals Industry 4.0, Disaster Risk Management and Infrastructure Resilience: A Systematic Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Mahyar Habibi Rad ◽  
Mohammad Mojtahedi ◽  
Michael J. Ostwald
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Disaster Risk Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Resilient Infrastructure

The fourth industrial era, known as ‘Industry 4.0’ (I4.0), aided and abetted by the digital revolution, has attracted increasing attention among scholars and practitioners in the last decade. The adoption of I4.0 principles in Disaster Risk Management (DRM) research and associated industry practices is particularly notable, although its origins, impacts and potential are not well understood. In response to this knowledge gap, this paper conducts a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis of the application and contribution of I4.0 in DRM. The systematic literature review identified 144 relevant articles and then employed descriptive and content analysis of a focused set of 70 articles published between 2011 and 2021. The results of this review trace the growing trend for adoption of I4.0 tools and techniques in disaster management, and in parallel their influence in resilient infrastructure and digital construction fields. The results are used to identify six dominant clusters of research activity: big data analytics, Internet of Things, prefabrication and modularization, robotics and cyber-physical systems. The research in each cluster is then mapped to the priorities of the Sendai framework for DRR, highlighting the ways it can support this international agenda. Finally, this paper identifies gaps within the literature and discusses possible future research directions for the combination of I4.0 and DRM.

scholarly journals Indoor Air Quality in Healthcare Units—A Systematic Literature Review Focusing Recent Research

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 967
Author(s):  
Ana Fonseca ◽  
Isabel Abreu ◽  
Maria João Guerreiro ◽  
Nelson Barros
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Indoor Air Quality ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Indoor Air ◽  
Environmental Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Research Interest ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Quality In Healthcare

The adequate assessment and management of indoor air quality in healthcare facilities is of utmost importance for patient safety and occupational health purposes. This study aims to identify the recent trends of research on the topic through a systematic literature review following the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) methodology. A total of 171 articles published in the period 2015–2020 were selected and analyzed. Results show that there is a worldwide growing research interest in this subject, dispersed in a wide variety of scientific journals. A textometric analysis using the IRaMuTeQ software revealed four clusters of topics in the sampled articles: physicochemical pollutants, design and management of infrastructures, environmental control measures, and microbiological contamination. The studies focus mainly on hospital facilities, but there is also research interest in primary care centers and dental clinics. The majority of the analyzed articles (85%) report experimental data, with the most frequently measured parameters being related to environmental quality (temperature and relative humidity), microbiological load, CO2 and particulate matter. Non-compliance with the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality is frequently reported. This study provides an overview of the recent literature on this topic, identifying promising lines of research to improve indoor air quality in healthcare facilities.

scholarly journals Advancing Resilience of Critical Health Infrastructures to Cascading Impacts of Water Supply Outages—Insights from a Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nathalie Sänger ◽  
Christine Heinzel ◽  
Simone Sandholz
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Resilience

The current understanding of critical health infrastructure resilience is still dominated by a technical perspective. Reality however is different, as past events including the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed: emergency situations are only rarely exclusively technical in nature. Instead they are a product of prior circumstances, often linked to natural hazards, technical mishaps, and insufficient social and organizational preparedness structures. However, experiences and lessons learned from past events are still largely overlooked and have not sufficiently found their way into conceptual understandings of critical health infrastructure resilience. This paper addresses this gap by challenging the one-sided and technically oriented understanding of resilience in the context of critical health infrastructure. Based on a systematic literature review, it assesses real-world cases of water supply failures in healthcare facilities, a serious threat largely overlooked in research and policy. The results underscore the need for targeted organizational strategies to deal with cascading impacts. The overall findings show that addressing technical aspects alone is not sufficient to increase the overall resilience of healthcare facilities. Broadening the dominant resilience understanding is hence an important foundation for healthcare infrastructures to improve risk management and emergency preparedness strategies to increase their resilience towards future disruptions.

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