Health Aspects of bushfire in Australia 13 Health Aspects of bushfire in Australia
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Running head: HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIAHealth Aspects of bushfire in AustraliaName of the studentName of the UniversityAuthor note
1HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIAAbstract:Introduction:The report is based on the peer-reviewed articles based on the bushfire and its socialimpacts. Discuss bushfire preparedness, recovery guidelines and responses. Besides this, thereport will provide focus on the psychological impacts of the bushfires and providesrecommendation to deal with this disaster. Methods:Systematic review mechanism has been utilized to form this report. The report has usedpeer reviewed articles from 1950 to 2017 on the psychological effect of bushfire. And it has triedto trace the PTDS syndrome appears due to bushfire. Results:The study has identified 522potential papers for the screening and out of them, theresearches has selected 9 articles that fulfil the inclusion criteria as decided for the mini-systematic review. Out of the 522 papers, 139 was sourced from PsychINFO, 289 were fromPubmed, 383 from Scopus and 40 from Google Scholar. Conclusion:This report has found that most of the researches are related with the bushfire and itseffect on environment, animal life and various other things. However, lack of journals hasn’tstoped the researches n the relationship of bushfire and mental as well as physical health.Disaster victims are the targeted source of data for this research.
2HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIATable of ContentsIntroduction:....................................................................................................................................3Methods:..........................................................................................................................................4Search terms:...............................................................................................................................4Information of sources:................................................................................................................5Eligibility criteria:........................................................................................................................5Study selection:............................................................................................................................6Risk of biasness:..........................................................................................................................6Results:........................................................................................................................................6Mortality:.....................................................................................................................................6Theme of study:...............................................................................................................................7Medical issues related to bushfire:..............................................................................................7Mitigation of psychological factors:............................................................................................8Psychological screening:.............................................................................................................9Discussion:.....................................................................................................................................10Problem of bushfire management:.............................................................................................10Psychological influences of bushfires:......................................................................................11Limitation:.....................................................................................................................................11Solution for Australia’s bushfire:..................................................................................................12Role of NGO:.............................................................................................................................12Role of medical students:...........................................................................................................13Conclusion:....................................................................................................................................13References:....................................................................................................................................15Appendix:......................................................................................................................................19
3HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIAIntroduction: Bushfires are one of the one of the most disasters natural disaster that arises due to theextreme weather conditions; it can be lightning storm, unattended back brining or uncontrolledfire, which gives rise in the bushfires (Lohm & Davis, 2015), . These disasters not only possesthreats to the environment, moreover affects lot of individuals who lives in rural areas due to theproximity to the areas, which are prone to the bushfires. Occurrence of bushfire can be seen at alarge scale in Australia owing to its arid and dry landscape. Dry weather condition of Australiagives fume to the sustainability of the bushfires and due this, magnitude of the disaster getsaggravated largely (Underwood, 2017). One of the horrific incidents of the bushfire in Australiais known as the Black Saturday, which took place on 7th February of 2009. There were more thanfour hundred cases of fire on that day, which was effect of dry climatic condition andtemperature of 46.40C temperature of that day. It cost the country 460,000 hectares of destroyedland and 78 or more affected communities.Bushfire possess substantial threat toward the healthcare system and the scenario is samewith Australia to. For instance, Black Saturday caused 414 casualties and 13 deaths, whichsuppress the figures of Ash Wednesday that took place 26 years ago in 1983 (Bryant, et al.,2014). According to the estimations, bushfires in Australia from 1983 to 2009 has caused thecountry almost $ billion AUD (Booth, Tranter & Eriksen, 2015). Moreover, Australianpsychological institutes argue that bushfire in the country has victimised many people, who nowsuffer from mental and physical trauma due to exposure to the extensive heat (Gibbs et al.,2015). Coming to the environmental implication of the bushfire in Australia, it can has beenestimated that almost one third of the country’s pollution is produced do this natural disaster.
4HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIAEver growing instance of bushfire in the country possesses significant damage to the property,health as well as mental problem to the Australian citizens. This report includes systematicapproach to search appraising and synthesising the literature it is aimed to discuss bushfirepreparedness, recovery guidelines and responses. Besides this, the report will provide focus onthe psychological impacts of the bushfires and provides recommendation to deal with thisdisaster. Methods:This report is based according to the PRISMA guideline using the systematic review ofthe published journals (Fleming, Koletsi & Pandis, 2014). A comprehensive literature review hasbeen done from the relevant documents, which are published during the year 1950 to 2017. Keywords for searching relevant documents for literature review has been done base on the keypublication found during the preliminary screening process. Search terms:For the search strategy, search terms used are as follows:Bush fire BushfireForest fire WildfireFor the exposure of the study, search terms used are as follows:PsychopathologyPost traumatic Stress DisorderPTSDSocial welfare
5HEALTH ASPECTS OF BUSHFIRE IN AUSTRALIAPosttraumatic Stress DisorderMental healthPost traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Information of sources:Research for appropriate documents has been done mainly from four databases, whichare:PubMed – an online database for biomedical and life science literaturePsycINFO – an online database for mental health care and behavioural scienceScopus – an online database that provides comprehensive literature on medicine, science,arts, social science, technology and humanitiesGoogle Scholar – an online database that provides literature on various fields likemedicine, science, technology, arts, humanities and othersWeb of Science – Another online database provides literature on science, medicine,technologiesBesides this, additional references for the literature related to bushfire in Australia hasbeen sourced from the papers and journals published. Eligibility criteria:The report is based on the peer-reviewed articles based on the bushfire and its socialimpacts, which were published between 1950 to 2017. The researcher has used only thosearticles for detailed screening which sets the predetermined criteria for selection (Moher et al.,2015). As the benchmark of selection, the researcher has decided that only those articles, whichare written in English completely , will be selected. Besides this, the researcher has omitted those
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