The Impact of Typhoon Haiyan on Health Staff: A Qualitative Study in Two Hospitals in Eastern Visayas, The Philippines.

ABSTRACT: Background and objective: Understanding how natural disasters affect their victims is key to improve prevention and mitigation. Typhoon Haiyan strongly hit the Philippines in 2013. In Leyte, health staff of two hospitals had a key role as responders, but also as victims. Scarce literature is available on how health staff may be affected when being disasters' victims. We therefore aimed to understand Haiyan's impact for health staff at personal and work level. Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews in the two hospitals with doctors, nurses, midwives, watchmen and administrative staff in September 2016. We used a thematic analysis. Results: The three main aspects reported as influencing staff were accessibility, safety and emotional aspects. Accessibility was a

SUBMITTER: Gil Cuesta J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6128081 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature