TY - JOUR
T1 - Toward informatics-enabled preparedness for natural hazards to minimize health impacts of climate change
AU - Phuong, Jimmy
AU - Riches, Naomi O.
AU - Calzoni, Luca
AU - Datta, Gora
AU - Duran, Deborah
AU - Lin, Asiyah Yu
AU - Singh, Ramesh P.
AU - Solomonides, Anthony E.
AU - Whysel, Noreen Y.
AU - Kavuluru, Ramakanth
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved.
PY - 2022/12/1
Y1 - 2022/12/1
N2 - Natural hazards (NHs) associated with climate change have been increasing in frequency and intensity. These acute events impact humans both directly and through their effects on social and environmental determinants of health. Rather than relying on a fully reactive incident response disposition, it is crucial to ramp up preparedness initiatives for worsening case scenarios. In this perspective, we review the landscape of NH effects for human health and explore the potential of health informatics to address associated challenges, specifically from a preparedness angle. We outline important components in a health informatics agenda for hazard preparedness involving hazard-disease associations, social determinants of health, and hazard forecasting models, and call for novel methods to integrate them toward projecting healthcare needs in the wake of a hazard. We describe potential gaps and barriers in implementing these components and propose some high-level ideas to address them.
AB - Natural hazards (NHs) associated with climate change have been increasing in frequency and intensity. These acute events impact humans both directly and through their effects on social and environmental determinants of health. Rather than relying on a fully reactive incident response disposition, it is crucial to ramp up preparedness initiatives for worsening case scenarios. In this perspective, we review the landscape of NH effects for human health and explore the potential of health informatics to address associated challenges, specifically from a preparedness angle. We outline important components in a health informatics agenda for hazard preparedness involving hazard-disease associations, social determinants of health, and hazard forecasting models, and call for novel methods to integrate them toward projecting healthcare needs in the wake of a hazard. We describe potential gaps and barriers in implementing these components and propose some high-level ideas to address them.
KW - climate change
KW - hazard preparedness
KW - health informatics
KW - social determinants of health
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U2 - 10.1093/jamia/ocac162
DO - 10.1093/jamia/ocac162
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36094062
AN - SCOPUS:85142400895
SN - 1067-5027
VL - 29
SP - 2161
EP - 2167
JO - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
IS - 12
ER -