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Table 4

Identification of focus and lack of knowledge

Aspect	Majority focus	Research gap
1. The literature focuses primarily on earthquakes and terrorist attacks, limited attention is given to other disaster types despite their frequency
Disaster types	Earthquakes, terrorist attacks	Climate related disasters
2. Focus on formal actors, communities and informal actors are neglected or have a passive role
Actors	Emergency health actors in hospital, civil protection, military, emergency health actors outside hospital	NGOs and their volunteers, affectedpopulation, spontaneous volunteers, patients, informal carers
3.Literature assumes that actors follow standardized protocols, neglecting behavioural change in disasters and emergence
Focus	Professional responders and codified decision rules	Emergentbehaviourand complexity
Transport modes	Ambulances	Private vehicle, walking to hospital, self-transportation
Departure points	Disaster scene	Evacuationpointshelter, field hospitals
Arrival points	Hospitals	Homeandcommunities, shelters, field hospitals
Decision problems	Triage decisions, Location- Allocation; routing	Schedulingcombined problems
4.Focus primarily on efficiency (and effectiveness), less attention for multiple objectives and fairness
Objectives	Efficiency or effectiveness	Equity

Aspect	Majority focus	Research gap
1. The literature focuses primarily on earthquakes and terrorist attacks, limited attention is given to other disaster types despite their frequency
Disaster types	Earthquakes, terrorist attacks	Climate related disasters
2. Focus on formal actors, communities and informal actors are neglected or have a passive role
Actors	Emergency health actors in hospital, civil protection, military, emergency health actors outside hospital	NGOs and their volunteers, affectedpopulation, spontaneous volunteers, patients, informal carers
3.Literature assumes that actors follow standardized protocols, neglecting behavioural change in disasters and emergence
Focus	Professional responders and codified decision rules	Emergentbehaviourand complexity
Transport modes	Ambulances	Private vehicle, walking to hospital, self-transportation
Departure points	Disaster scene	Evacuationpointshelter, field hospitals
Arrival points	Hospitals	Homeandcommunities, shelters, field hospitals
Decision problems	Triage decisions, Location- Allocation; routing	Schedulingcombined problems
4.Focus primarily on efficiency (and effectiveness), less attention for multiple objectives and fairness
Objectives	Efficiency or effectiveness	Equity

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