Mass gathering in Qatar 2022 World Cup. What should be especially monitored?

OBJECTIVES: At the end of 2022, the football world championship will be held in Qatar. These types of meetings require a risk analysis. It proposes an approach to determine which health risks should be prioritized. METHOD: We use a mixed methodology (Hierarchical Process Analysis, World Health Organization STAR and European Commission INFORM) to determine the risk level of a total of 12 health entities. RESULTS: Our analysis identifies 6 health entities with a moderate risk. There are 4 whose valuation is as low risk and 2 as very low. CONCLUSIONS: In our work we focus the analysis from a point of view of the route of transmission or presentation of health events, which facilitates a visualization of the preventive measures to be implemented, both organizationally and individually by the attendees.

[Mass gatherings: a systematic review of the literature on large events]. / Gestión de la atención médica en las reuniones masivas de personas (mass gatherings): revisión sistemática.

OBJECTIVES: We reviewed the literature on mass gatherings published worldwide to determine event types and topics or epidemiologic aspects covered. Articles using the term mass gatherings indexed in the Scopus database between 2000 and 2015 were reviewed. Of the 518 returned, we selected 96 with relevant information. The main event types studied were related to sports (46%), music (25%) or religious/social content (23%), and the most commonly studied locations were the United States (n=21), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (n=17), Australia (n=11), and the United Kingdom (n=10). The four most often studied events were the Hajj (n=17), the Olympic games (n=13), World Youth Day (n=8), and the FIFA World Cup (n=6). The main topics studied were models of health care (n=55), health care evaluation by means of rates of patients presenting for care or transferred to hospitals (n=21), respiratory pathogens (n=18), syndromic surveillance (n=10), and the global spread of diseases (n=10). Mass gatherings are an emerging area of study addressed by various medical specialties that have focused on studying the health care models used at such events. Emergency medicine is particularly involved with this research topic.

OBJETIVO: Se revisa la gestión de las reuniones masivas de personas a nivel mundial con el propósito de conocer los eventos, temas y aspectos epidemiológicos abordados. Para ello, se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica de los documentos que utilizaban el concepto "mass gathering" indexados en la base de datos Scopus entre 2000 y 2015. De los 518 documentos recuperados se seleccionaron 96 con información relevante para su análisis específico. Los principales tipos de eventos estudiados fueron los deportivos (46%), musicales (25%) y religiosos/sociales (23%) desarrollados en Estados Unidos (n = 21), Reino de Arabia Saudita (n = 17), Australia (n = 11) y Reino Unido (n = 10). Los cuatro principales eventos fueron el Hajj (n = 17), Juegos Olímpicos (n = 13), Día de la Juventud (n = 8) y mundiales de fútbol (n = 6), y se evaluaron los diferentes modelos de asistencia sanitaria (n = 55), los ratios de presentación de pacientes y de traslado a hospitales (n = 21), los patógenos respiratorios (n = 18), la vigilancia sindrómica (n = 10) y la globalización de enfermedades (n = 10). Creemos que las reuniones masivas de personas constituyen un área de conocimiento incipiente vinculada con diferentes especialidades médicas, particularmente la medicina de emergencias, que se centra en la investigación de los modelos de asistencia sanitaria.

Gestión de la atención médica en las reuniones masivas de personas (mass gatherings): revisión sistemática / Mass gatherings: a systematic review of the literature on large events

Se revisa la gestión de las reuniones masivas de personas a nivel mundial con el propósito de conocer los eventos, temas y aspectos epidemiológicos abordados. Para ello, se realizó una búsqueda bibliográfica de los documentos que utilizaban el concepto ‘mass gathering’ indexados en la base de datos Scopus entre 2000 y 2015. De los 518 documentos recuperados se seleccionaron 96 con información relevante para su análisis específico. Los principales tipos de eventos estudiados fueron los deportivos (46%), musicales (25%) y religiosos/sociales (23%) desarrollados en Estados Unidos (n = 21), Reino de Arabia Saudita (n = 17), Australia (n = 11) y Reino Unido (n = 10). Los cuatro principales eventos fueron el Hajj (n = 17), Juegos Olímpicos (n = 13), Día de la Juventud (n = 8) y mundiales de fútbol (n = 6), y se evaluaron los diferentes modelos de asistencia sanitaria (n = 55), los ratios de presentación de pacientes y de traslado a hospitales (n = 21), los patógenos respiratorios (n = 18), la vigilancia sindrómica (n = 10) y la globalización de enfermedades (n = 10). Creemos que las reuniones masivas de personas constituyen un área de conocimiento incipiente vinculada con diferentes especialidades médicas, particularmente la medicina de emergencias, que se centra en la investigación de los modelos de asistencia sanitaria (AU)

We reviewed the literature on mass gatherings published worldwide to determine event types and topics or epidemiologic aspects covered. Articles using the term mass gatherings indexed in the Scopus database between 2000 and 2015 were reviewed. Of the 518 returned, we selected 96 with relevant information. The main event types studied were related to sports (46%), music (25%) or religious/social content (23%), and the most commonly studied locations were the United States (n=21), the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (n=17), Australia (n=11), and the United Kingdom (n=10). The four most often studied events were the Hajj (n=17), the Olympic games (n=13), World Youth Day (n=8), and the FIFA World Cup (n=6). The main topics studied were models of health care (n=55), health care evaluation by means of rates of patients presenting for care or transferred to hospitals (n=21), respiratory pathogens (n=18), syndromic surveillance (n=10), and the global spread of diseases (n=10). Mass gatherings are an emerging area of study addressed by various medical specialties that have focused on studying the health care models used at such events. Emergency medicine is particularly involved with this research topic (AU)