Cargando…

Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review

Hajj is a unique gathering with Mecca and Kaaba being spiritually important to many faiths across the globe, especially Muslims. This is because of the proclamation of the prophet's father, Ibrahaam, when he called all mankind to perform Hajj. That is why all Muslims on Earth feel that they hav...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Shujaa, Asaad, Alhamid, Sameer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2015.02.001
_version_ 1782434085346476032
author Shujaa, Asaad
Alhamid, Sameer
author_facet Shujaa, Asaad
Alhamid, Sameer
author_sort Shujaa, Asaad
collection PubMed
description Hajj is a unique gathering with Mecca and Kaaba being spiritually important to many faiths across the globe, especially Muslims. This is because of the proclamation of the prophet's father, Ibrahaam, when he called all mankind to perform Hajj. That is why all Muslims on Earth feel that they have to visit Mecca and Kaaba on a specific date and time, and that is the reason this small location hosts one of the largest human gatherings in the world. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam that every financially and physically able Muslim must perform once in his/her lifetime. For 14 centuries countless millions of Muslim men and women from the four corners of the earth have undertaken pilgrimage to Mecca. In conclusion this review article confirm that Hajj is oldest and largest mass gathering in all mankind and there is some issues influence the health response such as size of gathering. diversity of population, climate and health facilities around hajj site, also we discuss the infectious and non infectious related illness in hajj and their prevention methods.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4882208
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2016
publisher Elsevier
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-48822082016-05-27 Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review Shujaa, Asaad Alhamid, Sameer Turk J Emerg Med Review Article Hajj is a unique gathering with Mecca and Kaaba being spiritually important to many faiths across the globe, especially Muslims. This is because of the proclamation of the prophet's father, Ibrahaam, when he called all mankind to perform Hajj. That is why all Muslims on Earth feel that they have to visit Mecca and Kaaba on a specific date and time, and that is the reason this small location hosts one of the largest human gatherings in the world. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam that every financially and physically able Muslim must perform once in his/her lifetime. For 14 centuries countless millions of Muslim men and women from the four corners of the earth have undertaken pilgrimage to Mecca. In conclusion this review article confirm that Hajj is oldest and largest mass gathering in all mankind and there is some issues influence the health response such as size of gathering. diversity of population, climate and health facilities around hajj site, also we discuss the infectious and non infectious related illness in hajj and their prevention methods. Elsevier 2016-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4882208/ /pubmed/27239622 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2015.02.001 Text en Copyright © 2016 The Emergency Medicine Association of Turkey. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of the Owner. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Review Article
Shujaa, Asaad
Alhamid, Sameer
Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title_full Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title_fullStr Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title_full_unstemmed Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title_short Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
title_sort health response to hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27239622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tjem.2015.02.001
work_keys_str_mv AT shujaaasaad healthresponsetohajjmassgatheringfromemergencyperspectivenarrativereview
AT alhamidsameer healthresponsetohajjmassgatheringfromemergencyperspectivenarrativereview