Figure 1.

Role of burnout in health care provision after mass disasters. Overall, there is an increased demand for health care, while there is a decreased supply. Various factors play an important role in ineffective health care provision, which differ depending on the type of disaster (e.g., damaged health care facilities are very frequent after earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, and wars, whereas a shortage of medical material is common after pandemics, and insufficient planning is an almost consistent part of all mass disasters). These factors and safety concerns form the basis of burnout, which further negatively affects health care services, and differ depending on the disaster (e.g., shotgun wounds or bombing injuries during wars, being crushed under collapsed buildings during earthquakes, or being infected during pandemics).