TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Core competencies in disaster management and humanitarian assistance: a systematic review
JO  - Disaster medicine and public health preparedness
A1  - Ripoll Gallardo, Alba
A1  - Djalali, Ahmadreza
A1  - Foletti, Marco
A1  - Ragazzoni, Luca
A1  - Della Corte, Francesco
A1  - Lupescu, Olivera
A1  - Arculeo, Chris
A1  - von Arnim, Gotz
A1  - Friedl, Tom
A1  - Ashkenazi, Michael
A1  - Fisher, Philipp
A1  - Hreckovski, Boris
A1  - Khorram-Manesh, Amir
A1  - Komadina, Radko
A1  - Lechner, Konstanze
A1  - Stal, Marc
A1  - Patru, Cristina
A1  - Burkle, Frederick M.
A1  - Ingrassia, Pier Luigi
SP  - 430
EP  - 439
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - Disaster response demands a large workforce covering diverse professional sectors. Throughout this article, we illustrate the results of a systematic review of peer-reviewed studies to identify existing competency sets for disaster management and humanitarian assistance that would serve as guidance for the development of a common disaster curriculum. A systematic review of English-language articles was performed on PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ERIC, and Cochrane Library. Studies were included if reporting competency domains, abilities, knowledge, skills, or attitudes for professionals involved disaster relief or humanitarian assistance. Exclusion criteria included abstracts, citations, case studies, and studies not dealing with disasters or humanitarian assistance. Thirty-eight papers were analyzed. Target audience was defined in all articles. Five references (13%) reported cross-sectorial competencies. Most of the articles (81.6%) were specific to health care. Eighteen (47%) papers included competencies for at least 2 different disciplines and 18 (47%) for different professional groups. Nursing was the most widely represented cadre. Eighteen papers (47%) defined competency domains and 36 (94%) reported list of competencies. Nineteen articles (50%) adopted consensus-building to define competencies, and 12 (31%) included competencies adapted to different professional responsibility levels. This systematic review revealed that the largest number of papers were mainly focused on the health care sector and presented a lack of agreement on the terminology used for competency-based definition. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2015;0:1-10).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1935-7893
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2015.24
ID  - ref1
ER  -