Social impacts of the American Red Cross (ARC) disaster interventions: a scoping review

This scoping review aims to address both issues by summarizing and evaluating the social impact of the American Red Cross (ARC’s) national disaster interventions. As a secondary objective, this review will also provide important information to guide ARC and other organizations in truly fulfilling their missions.

This investigation found that ARC makes general efforts to address the needs of communities they assist before, during, and after disasters. Because the results suggest that ARC is moving in the correct direction in reducing the nationwide harm disasters cause, ARC's social impact on studied populations is mostly positive.