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  • Public Health Policy
  • Disaster Medicine

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  • Climate change intensifies extreme weather events, threatening community health and safety.
  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems face significant disruption from climate-related disasters.
  • Developing robust resilience strategies and assessment tools is crucial for EMS preparedness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a comprehensive tool for assessing the resilience of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems to climate change.
  • To create the Emergency Medical Services Resilience Assessment (EMSRA) tool.

Main Methods:

  • An applied, mixed-methods approach was used, combining a global scoping review with qualitative interviews in Iran.
  • The study involved four phases: scoping review, qualitative inquiry, pilot tool development, and psychometric validation.
  • The Emergency Medical Services Resilience Assessment (EMSRA) tool was developed based on synthesized findings.

Main Results:

  • The research successfully developed a pilot version of the EMSRA tool.
  • The tool integrates global dimensions and context-specific components of EMS resilience.
  • Validation included assessing psychometric properties for robust evaluation.

Conclusions:

  • The EMSRA tool will enable systematic assessment and enhancement of EMS resilience to climate change.
  • It provides critical data for evidence-based strategies to strengthen EMS against climate impacts.
  • The tool supports national and provincial EMS systems in adapting to severe climate changes.