not in English, not published in a peer-reviewed journal, about occupational accidents, and were resource manuals or international frameworks. The final exclusion criteria related to alternative meanings of the search keywords for example, the term disaster used to describe the global financial crisis. Review phase Search results The first search undertaken in March 2014 returned over 800 papers (n=805). After duplicates and excluded papers were removed one hundred and seven papers were retained for screening. A further 64 papers were obtained from the updated search of Medline, Sociological Abstracts, Scopus and Web of Science in May 2015. The new searches of the 8 additional databases (Embase, Premedline, Cinahl, APA FT, Environmental Abstracts, Geobase, Compendex, and GreenFILE) added a further 231 papers. After screening the total 502 papers using the exclusion criteria above, 88 papers were considered relevant for this scoping review. Five papers identified through snowballing and hand searching were also added making a total of 93 papers included in the pre-analysis and coding phase. Pre-analysis and coding phase In the pre-analysis and coding phase, four coding frameworks were developed following review of all abstracts. The first framework was related to country of location of the paper. Papers were divided into North America and other countries. This was based on understanding of the recent efforts in North America and particularly the United States of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ( in relation to people with disabilities in natural hazard emergencies (). The second coding framework related to type of paper and methods employed based on the diversity of approaches in this newly emerging field. The third framework developed at this pre-analysis phase was in relation to preparedness and response. Although the primary aim of the review was to scope papers addressing preparedness, it became apparent that many papers also addressed response as part of their preparedness topic and some papers combined discussion of both preparedness and response. During this phase, one paper was identified as not meeting the inclusion criteria and thus excluded. A further seven papers were also excluded as these did not include abstracts in the exported file from the database and we were unable to locate the full article. These exclusions resulted in a final number of 85 papers included in this scoping review. Of these the majority (n=55) came from North America; the remaining 30 papers were from other countries.
Sociological Abstracts disab* OR handicap* OR "mental* retard*" OR "development* disabilit*" OR "intellectual disabilit*" OR "learning disabilit*" OR "learning disorder*" OR "vision impairment*" OR "hearing impairment*" OR "vision disorder*" OR "hearing disorder*" disaster* OR Avalanche* OR Earthquake* OR Volcan* OR Flood* OR Tsunami* OR Blizzard* OR Cyclon* OR Drought* OR Hurricane* OR Typhoon* OR Hail* OR "Heat wave*" OR Tornado* OR Wildfire* OR storm* OR landslide* OR "natural disaster*" OR "natural hazard*" OR mitigation prep* OR OR planning OR "risk reduction" Scopus OR handicap* OR "mental* retard*" OR "development* disabilit*" OR "intellectual disabilit*" OR "learning disabilit*" OR "learning disorder*" OR "vision impairment*" OR "hearing impairment*" OR "vision disorder*" OR "hearing disorder*" disaster* OR avalanche* OR earthquake* OR volcan* OR flood* OR tsunami* OR blizzard* OR cyclon* OR drought* OR hurricane* OR typhoon* OR hail* OR "Heat wave*" OR tornado* OR wildfire* OR storm* OR landslide* OR "natural disaster*" OR "natural hazard*" OR mitigation prep* OR OR planning OR "risk reduction" Web of Science disab* OR handicap* OR "mental* retard*" OR "development* disabilit*" OR "intellectual disabilit*" OR "learning disabilit*" OR "learning disorder*" OR "vision impairment*" OR "hearing impairment*" OR "vision disorder*" OR "hearing disorder*" disaster* OR avalanche* OR earthquake* OR volcan* OR flood* OR tsunami* OR blizzard* OR cyclon* OR drought* OR hurricane* OR typhoon* OR hail* OR "Heat wave*" OR tornado* OR wildfire* OR storm* OR landslide* OR "natural disaster*" OR "natural hazard*" OR mitigation prep* OR OR planning OR "risk reduction"
OR "hearing disorder*” "natural disaster*" OR "natural hazard*" OR mitigation OR emergenc* Compendex via Engineering Village disab* OR handicap* OR "mental* retard*" OR "development* disabilit*" OR "intellectual disabilit*" OR "learning disabilit*" OR "learning disorder*" OR "vision impairment*" OR "hearing impairment*" OR "vision disorder*" OR "hearing disorder*” disaster* OR avalanche* OR earthquake* OR volcan* OR flood* OR tsunami* OR blizzard* OR cyclon* OR drought* OR hurricane* OR typhoon* OR hail* OR "Heat wave*" OR tornado* OR wildfire* OR storm* OR landslide* OR "natural disaster*" OR "natural hazard*" OR mitigation OR emergenc* prep* OR plans OR planning OR "risk reduction" GreenFILE via Proquest disab* or handicap* or "mental* retard*" or "development* disabilit*" or "intellectual disabilit*" or "learning disabilit*" or "learning disorder*" or "vision impairment*" or "hearing impairment*" or "vision disorder*" or "hearing disorder*" disaster* or avalanche* or earthquake* or volcan* or flood* or tsunami* or blizzard* or cyclon* or drought* or hurricane* or typhoon* or hail* or "Heat wave*" or tornado* or wildfire* or storm* or landslide* or "natural disaster*" or "natural hazard*" or mitigation or emergenc* prep* OR plans OR planning OR "risk reduction" **Differences between April 2014 and May 2015 search - mitigation, natural hazard, natural disaster, storm, and landslide - took out keywords "emergency plan*, emergency prep*, management