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4 Reducing Risk and Improving Disaster Recovery
4 Reducing Risk and Improving Disaster Recovery
Pages 18-25
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Their re ASSESSING POSTDISASTER HEALTH IMPACTS Jennifer Horney, an associate professor of epidemarks illustrated some opportunities for preventing and miology and biostatistics at the Texas A&M University mitigating health impacts of disasters and underscored Health Science Center School of Public Health and the the importance of having baseline information about the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, has worked on a health of communities. This information, combined with team of public health practitioners that has responded a greater understanding of the broader, social factors to several hurricanes, including Katrina.
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The MENTAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF DISASTERS U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as part of the activities taking place in its Hurricane San- Psychiatrist and neuropathologist Richard Powers dy Project Management Office, has developed a Sandy offered a ground-level account of the response to both Index of Indicators, which include indicators and data Katrina and the DWH oil spill.
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For example, when an urban annihilation event sues, he said. After Hurricane Katrina and the DWH oil impacts a major urban area such as New Orleans, we spill, the Alabama health department sent out crisis can make predictions about the flow of people that are support counselors through a program called Project leaving, and where they are likely to run out of gas, he Rebound.6 These counselors were local residents who said.
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Major disasters become part of "a community memory," and communities "reset" themselves after Eight years ago, Angela Grajeda began working in each natural disaster knowing that whatever they do in the Gulf region as a member of the American Red Cross's response is also a means to prepare for the next event. recovery team helping communities rebuild after Hurri- In its pilot program, the Red Cross takes advantage of cane Katrina.
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In partnership with the Gulf Region Health Outreach Pro- ACCESS AND USE OF HEALTH INFORMATION gram (GRHOP) , the Louisiana Public Health Institute, with funding from the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Linda McCauley, Emory University, commented is working with central coast communities to build that with many communities increasingly engaged in such platforms, which can provide information about understanding, collecting, and mapping environmenmajor health determinants such as household income tal monitoring data, her dream for the next decade is and education level as well as data on the environ- to see communities access and get engaged in their ment, economy, education, and transportation issues.
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The Maureen Lichtveld of Tulane University added to coastal populations are exposed to periodic disasters, the conversation about democratizing data by noting, and these citizens live with the persistent risk for disaster "It is one thing to put out the data, it is another thing during the increasingly violent hurricane seasons. to make the community truly a partner by being able to In Powers' view, along the Gulf coast there are few interpret the data in a way that the data should be in- major academic centers with schools of public health terpreted." While public health experts can talk all they to advocate for research on these populations and conwant about engaging communities, she said, it will not duct the research, if funded.
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During the isting conditions, such as health and social equity, oil spill many people provided support functions public understanding of risk, and the built environ- (bringing gear, food, etc.) for clean-up work and ment, and by pre- and postdisaster interventions.
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Look across resources that use differ and resilience issues are on the agenda. ent ways of collecting and looking at information (e.g., the Affordable Care Act required community Breakout question: How can the Gulf Research Program benefit surveys, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation improve understanding of baseline health and well-be- county level surveys)
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