Hurricanes and Health A Scoping Review of Recent Developments in Physical Injuries Mental Health and Emergency Interventions

In this review of 20 articles on the effect of hurricanes on health, the authors focused on four categories: physical injuries and fatalities, mental health impacts, hurricane-COVID-19 interplay, and EMS interventions. These reviews of storms from 2019-2022 highlight the increase in research on the short- and long-term mental health impacts of disasters; the challenges posed by concurrent disasters, and the need for multifaceted EMS approaches (e.g., using artificial intelligence to bolster response).
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