Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees
To provide services safely to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have instituted public health safety protocols to mitigate the risk of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, it can be difficult for people to adhere to protocols under the best...
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| description | To provide services safely to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have instituted public health safety protocols to mitigate the risk of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, it can be difficult for people to adhere to protocols under the best of circumstances, and in situations of nested crises, in which one crisis contributes to a cascade of additional crises, adherence can further deteriorate. Such a nested crises situation occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, when a massive explosion in the city injured or killed thousands and destroyed essential infrastructure. Using data from a study on COVID-19 safety protocol adherence during refugee humanitarian assistance in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, we conduct a cross-country comparison to determine whether the nested crises in Beirut led to a deterioration of protocol adherence–the “fragile rationalism” orientation–or whether adherence remained robust–the “collective resilience” orientation. We found greater evidence for collective resilience, and from those findings make public health recommendations for service provision occurring in disaster areas. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d1090d68efb4a46b6892e6627203b762022-12-22T02:43:54ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652022-07-011010.3389/fpubh.2022.870158870158Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to RefugeesStephanie Nawyn0Ezgi Karaoğlu1Stephen Gasteyer2Rania Mansour3Ali Ghassani4Sandra Marquart-Pyatt5Sandra Marquart-Pyatt6Department of Sociology, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United StatesDepartment of Sociology, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United StatesDepartment of Sociology, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United StatesProgram of Social Work, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, QatarFaculty of Health Sciences, Amel Association International, American University of Beirut, Beirut, LebanonDepartment of Geography College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United StatesDepartment of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences and Department of Political Science, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United StatesTo provide services safely to refugees during the COVID-19 pandemic, humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have instituted public health safety protocols to mitigate the risk of spreading the SARS-CoV-2 virus. However, it can be difficult for people to adhere to protocols under the best of circumstances, and in situations of nested crises, in which one crisis contributes to a cascade of additional crises, adherence can further deteriorate. Such a nested crises situation occurred in Beirut, Lebanon, when a massive explosion in the city injured or killed thousands and destroyed essential infrastructure. Using data from a study on COVID-19 safety protocol adherence during refugee humanitarian assistance in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, we conduct a cross-country comparison to determine whether the nested crises in Beirut led to a deterioration of protocol adherence–the “fragile rationalism” orientation–or whether adherence remained robust–the “collective resilience” orientation. We found greater evidence for collective resilience, and from those findings make public health recommendations for service provision occurring in disaster areas.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.870158/fullrefugeesMiddle EastTurkeyCOVID-19Arab |
| spellingShingle | Stephanie Nawyn Ezgi Karaoğlu Stephen Gasteyer Rania Mansour Ali Ghassani Sandra Marquart-Pyatt Sandra Marquart-Pyatt Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees Frontiers in Public Health refugees Middle East Turkey COVID-19 Arab |
| title | Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees |
| title_full | Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees |
| title_fullStr | Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees |
| title_full_unstemmed | Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees |
| title_short | Resilience to Nested Crises: The Effects of the Beirut Explosion on COVID-19 Safety Protocol Adherence During Humanitarian Assistance to Refugees |
| title_sort | resilience to nested crises the effects of the beirut explosion on covid 19 safety protocol adherence during humanitarian assistance to refugees |
| topic | refugees Middle East Turkey COVID-19 Arab |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.870158/full |
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