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Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: Every year, a large number of people lose their lives or become injured seriously as a result of fires. Fires in buildings pose a great threat to resident safety. The aim of this systematic review is to identify preventive measures for fire-related injuries in residential buildings, taki...
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Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416192 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1057 |
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author | Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Cheraghi, Zahra Ardalan, Ali Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud |
author_facet | Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Cheraghi, Zahra Ardalan, Ali Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud |
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description | BACKGROUND: Every year, a large number of people lose their lives or become injured seriously as a result of fires. Fires in buildings pose a great threat to resident safety. The aim of this systematic review is to identify preventive measures for fire-related injuries in residential buildings, taking into account associated risk factors. METHODS: In this study, a systematic review was performed of all studies conducted in the field of residential building fires, influencing factors and available safety procedures. From the earliest record up to 7 July 2017, databases of PubMed, Web of Science/Knowledge, and Scopus were searched and selected articles included in the study. RESULTS: A total of 5,613 published articles were examined, of which 30 were finally found to meet the inclusion criteria. The findings of the study were included in two main groups of preventive measures and risk factors for residential building fires and related injuries. Regarding preventive measures, the factors to reduce the risk of fire-related injuries raised in the studies under review included rule amendments, changes and modification of the environment, behavior change such as emergency evacuation during fire occurrence, improvements to emergency medical services, and awareness-raising. Also, many of the studies showed that areas with a large number of young children, older people, people with physical and mental disabilities, alcohol and drug addicts, smokers, single-family households and low-income families were particularly at risk of fire-related injuries and deaths. CONCLUSIONS: There are features in residential buildings and attributes among residents that can be related to fire hazard and fire-related injuries and deaths. The most important point of this study is to focus on preventive strategies including environmental modification, promotion of safety rules and changes in risk behavior among residents. Policy makers should pay more attention to these important issues in order to promote safety and injury prevention in relation to building fires. |
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spelling | pubmed-64209222019-03-20 Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Cheraghi, Zahra Ardalan, Ali Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud J Inj Violence Res Injury &Violence BACKGROUND: Every year, a large number of people lose their lives or become injured seriously as a result of fires. Fires in buildings pose a great threat to resident safety. The aim of this systematic review is to identify preventive measures for fire-related injuries in residential buildings, taking into account associated risk factors. METHODS: In this study, a systematic review was performed of all studies conducted in the field of residential building fires, influencing factors and available safety procedures. From the earliest record up to 7 July 2017, databases of PubMed, Web of Science/Knowledge, and Scopus were searched and selected articles included in the study. RESULTS: A total of 5,613 published articles were examined, of which 30 were finally found to meet the inclusion criteria. The findings of the study were included in two main groups of preventive measures and risk factors for residential building fires and related injuries. Regarding preventive measures, the factors to reduce the risk of fire-related injuries raised in the studies under review included rule amendments, changes and modification of the environment, behavior change such as emergency evacuation during fire occurrence, improvements to emergency medical services, and awareness-raising. Also, many of the studies showed that areas with a large number of young children, older people, people with physical and mental disabilities, alcohol and drug addicts, smokers, single-family households and low-income families were particularly at risk of fire-related injuries and deaths. CONCLUSIONS: There are features in residential buildings and attributes among residents that can be related to fire hazard and fire-related injuries and deaths. The most important point of this study is to focus on preventive strategies including environmental modification, promotion of safety rules and changes in risk behavior among residents. Policy makers should pay more attention to these important issues in order to promote safety and injury prevention in relation to building fires. Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6420922/ /pubmed/30416192 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1057 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Injury &Violence Shokouhi, Mohammadreza Nasiriani, Khadijeh Cheraghi, Zahra Ardalan, Ali Khankeh, Hamidreza Fallahzadeh, Hosein Khorasani-Zavareh, Davoud Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title | Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title_full | Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title_short | Preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
title_sort | preventive measures for fire-related injuries and their risk factors in residential buildings: a systematic review |
topic | Injury &Violence |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6420922/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30416192 http://dx.doi.org/10.5249/jivr.v11i1.1057 |
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