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Stakeholder Perspectives on Evaluating Emergency Medical Teams Deployments.

Tiffany Yeung¹, Daniel Bausch^1,2, Arlinda Cerga Pashoja³

¹Department of Disease Control, https://ror.org/00a0jsq62London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

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Developing a standardized framework for evaluating Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) is crucial. Stakeholders emphasize external, objective evaluations incorporating local perspectives to improve global health emergency response.

Keywords:

disaster aid emergencies evaluation humanitarian natural disasters

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Background:

A lack of standardized evaluation frameworks for Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) hinders the systematic improvement of international disaster response.
Understanding stakeholder perspectives is vital for developing effective and contextually relevant evaluation practices for EMT deployments.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify current practices for evaluating Emergency Medical Team (EMT) deployments.
To elucidate diverse stakeholder perspectives on the evaluation of EMT deployments.

Main Methods:

Conducted qualitative interviews with 17 international stakeholders, including EMT members, funders, and host government representatives.
Applied thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke's 6-step process) to interview data to identify key themes and codes.

Main Results:

Stakeholders universally support evaluating EMT deployments and sharing lessons learned to establish best practices.
Recommended external, objective evaluations using mixed methods (qualitative and quantitative data), emphasizing the inclusion of local stakeholder voices.
Identified key evaluation domains: leadership, coordination, information management, health operations, logistics, and finance.

Conclusions:

A standardized evaluation framework for EMT deployments is valued by stakeholders for fostering best practices and continuous improvement.
Future research should focus on prioritizing evaluation areas and piloting a framework in training and deployment settings.