Table 8.
Themes derived from the categories found in the recommendations in the selected studies
| No. | Categories (derived from the recommendations) | f | Location | Sub-themes | Major themes | f |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identification of probable natural disasters and advancing preparation accordingly | 1 | Croatia | Identifying probable natural disasters | Mitigation phase | 1 |
| 2 | Radar detector for real-time traffic data collection in extraordinary situations | 2 | Croatia | Preparing necessary equipment | Preparedness phase | 2 |
| 3 | Expecting more earthquakes | 4 | Utah | |||
| 4 | Provision of psychological first-aid through telemedicine | 2 | Croatia | Mental care response measures | Response phase | 32 |
| 5 | Consciousness raising to mitigate the psychological impacts of the 2 disasters | 4 | Japan | |||
| 6 | Establishing remote mental care support system | 1 | Japan | |||
| 7 | Strict COVID-19 inspection of the entering national-international disaster-response personnel | 2 | Haiti | Healthcare-related COVID-19 curbing measures | ||
| 8 | Well-publicized, strongly supported masking campaign | 1 | Haiti | |||
| 9 | Use of pharmacists’ potentials during COVID-19 pandemic era | 5 | Japan | |||
| 10 | Possible community empowerment measures at evacuation centers | 2 | Japan | |||
| 11 | Immediate measures to support the health system to curb COVID-19 pandemic | 1 | Nepal | |||
| 12 | Possible business-sustaining measures | 4 | Japan | Economic improvement measures | ||
| 13 | Ongoing reforms to system of economic governance | 1 | Albania | |||
| 14 | loss compensation through social productivity | 2 | Albania | |||
| 15 | Recognizing the women’s capabilities for local mitigation planning by remembering their role in Nepal’s postearthquake recovery and resilience | 2 | Nepal | Recognizing Community-based capabilities | ||
| 16 | Determining citizen-driven local Ombudsman to monitor the responses, use of funds, and recovery measures | 2 | Nepal | |||
| 17 | Community-based civil society campaign to monitor government budget and expenditure, to conduct media scrutiny, focused on the conduct and performance of officials handling the response at national and local level | 2 | Nepal | |||
| 18 | Citizen-driven forms of participatory and accountability politics to reveal governance weaknesses | 1 | Nepal | |||
| 19 | Embracing more responsibility by government actors in the absence of international interference | 1 | Nepal | Government-related boosting measures | ||
| 20 | Providing rapid and accurate information for the public | 2 | Utah | |||
| 21 | Providing continuous lines of data from aftershock stations (multi-layered communication network) | 1 | Utah | |||
| 22 | Having a plan, practicing it, and updating it! | 1 | Utah |