Components and entities of post-disaster Damage and loss Assessment Program in the health sector: a Scoping Review Protocol

Introduction: Annual natural and man-made disasters in Iran eventually lead to casualties and significant financial loss. The fourth priority of the Sendai Framework is that damaged areas must be better built back. The success of reconstruction programs depends on accurate post-disaster damage and loss assessment. The approaches, goals, priorities, and measures required for reconstruction are prepared and formulated based on these assessments. To effectively implement a reconstruction and rehabilitation program in the country's health sector, preparing and compiling a post-disaster damage and loss assessment program is necessary. Methods: This qualitative study will use the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews to identify the components and entities of the disaster damage assessment program. This study will be conducted using a souping review methodology. Inspired by the JBI methodological framework, this review examines the extent, scope, and nature of research activities on the components and entities of disaster damage and loss assessment programs in the health sector. Documents will be searched in the PubMed, ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases for English articles and the IranDoc, Magiran, and SID databases for Persian articles from 2011 to April 2022. In this phase, in addition to articles and books published in reputable global databases, damage assessment guidelines, the websites of reputable international organizations such as the World Bank, and several disaster assessment reports will be reviewed. Results: Studies will be grouped according to the consequences of disasters, health sector, damage assessment approaches, study objective, environment, methodology, collection techniques, and analysis of key data and findings. The main findings will be expressed based on the purpose and question of the research. Conclusions: The health sector is affected by disasters like other sectors of society. Given the importance of the health sector in responding to disasters, post-disaster damage and loss assessment and developing a disaster reconstruction program in this sector are imperative. Despite the long history of reconstruction in Iran, many challenges in assessing the damage and loss of disasters are seen. Therefore, this study will be conducted to explain the conceptual model of disaster damage and loss assessment program in the health sector. Keywords: Disasters, Iranian national health system, Assessment, Damage, and Loss Assessment, Reconstruction, Conceptual model