Department of Health in Emergencies and Disasters, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
Research Center for Health Sciences and Technologies, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
Public Health Nurs. 2022 Sep;39(5):1142-1155. doi: 10.1111/phn.13075. Epub 2022 Apr 7.
Social factors can affect the vulnerability of disaster-prone communities. This review aimed to identify and categorize social vulnerability indicators in the COVID-19 pandemic.
This systematic review was conducted in February 2021. Bibliographies, citation databases, and other available records were investigated based on the aim of the study. The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools were applied for assessing the included articles retrieved through the comprehensive and systematic literature search. Descriptive and thematic analyses were done to extract the indicators affecting social vulnerability in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thirty-one eligible articles were included and 85 indicators of social vulnerability were extracted. The indicators were categorized in seven main categories, including; Household, community composition; Race, minority status and language; Socioeconomic status; Community health status; Public health infra-structures; Education; Information, technology and communication.
Regions with higher social vulnerability experienced greater mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional research is needed to measure the social vulnerability index in pandemics to prioritize distribution of scarce resources and ensure effectiveness and equity for all regions of countries.
社会因素会影响易受灾社区的脆弱性。本研究旨在确定和分类 COVID-19 大流行期间的社会脆弱性指标。
本系统评价于 2021 年 2 月进行。根据研究目的，对参考文献、引文数据库和其他可用记录进行了调查。采用 Joanna Briggs 研究所（JBI）的批判性评估工具对通过全面系统文献检索获得的纳入文章进行评估。采用描述性和主题分析方法提取影响 COVID-19 大流行中社会脆弱性的指标。
共纳入 31 篇符合条件的文章，提取了 85 个社会脆弱性指标。这些指标分为七个主要类别，包括：家庭、社区构成；种族、少数民族地位和语言；社会经济地位；社区健康状况；公共卫生基础设施；教育；信息、技术和通信。
在 COVID-19 大流行期间，社会脆弱性较高的地区死亡率更高。需要进一步研究衡量大流行期间的社会脆弱性指数，以便为各国各地区稀缺资源的分配提供优先次序，并确保其有效性和公平性。
