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Worldwide disaster loss and damage databases: A systematic review.
Sadegh Ahmadi Mazhin1,2, Mehrdad Farrokhi1, Mehdi Noroozi3
1Health in Emergency and Disaster Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Journal of Education and Health Promotion
|November 11, 2021
Summary
Disaster databases are crucial for risk management. This review identifies their objectives, data, and limitations, highlighting the need for improved global, regional, and national disaster data collection.
Area of Science:
- Disaster Management
- Public Health
- Information Science
Background:
- Disaster databases are essential tools for effective disaster risk management and health promotion.
- Understanding the characteristics of existing disaster databases is crucial for their optimal utilization and development.
Purpose of the Study:
- To systematically review global disaster databases.
- To identify the objectives, information sources, data registration criteria, and variables used in reputable disaster databases worldwide.
Main Methods:
- A systematic review of English-language articles published up to September 2020.
- Searches conducted across major academic databases (Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, etc.).
- Data extraction using a researcher-made questionnaire focusing on database dimensions and indicators.
Main Results:
- Twenty-two studies were reviewed, focusing on global and regional disaster databases.
- Identified variations in data collection methods, quality, and scope among databases.
- Highlighted limitations including risk, time, accounting, threshold, and geographical biases.
Conclusions:
- Some disaster databases offer high-quality data and well-defined collection methods, serving as models for others.
- Complementing existing global, regional, and national databases is necessary for informed disaster risk reduction decisions.
- Establishment of national disaster databases is recommended for countries.
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