Open AccessCultural-Religious Approach: An Effective Community-Based Disaster Management Strategy for Reducing the Mortality and Morbidity of the Fourth Wave of Coronavirus Pandemic Caused by the Lineage B.1.1.7 (the British Variant) in Iran (Spring 2021)
Author(s) -
Hossein Ghaedamini,
Hamid Jafari,
Salman Farahbakhsh,
Hesan Arefi,
Zahra Saghafi
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the malaysian journal of medical sciences/the malaysian journal of medical science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2180-4303
pISSN - 1394-195X
DOI - 10.21315/mjms2022.29.1.16
Subject(s) - pandemic , lineage (genetic) , covid-19 , emergency management , coronavirus , political science , economic growth , geography , development economics , history , environmental planning , medicine , virology , biology , economics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , gene , biochemistry , pathology , outbreak
Lineage B.1.1.7 (the British variant) is a new variant of SARS-CoV-2. The virus was first identified in the UK in October 2020. Since Iran is one of the most disaster risk countries in the world, disaster management is one of the most important issues. One of the effective approaches of this field is community-based disaster management (CBDM). Altogether, planning and policymaking through using various cultural-religious role models with emphasis on the cultural points can be useful to reduce the mortality and morbidity rate caused by the fourth wave of coronavirus in Iran.