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This book chapter provides an overview of literature on crisis communication and diverse populations.
Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Message Content, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception
Language(s): English
Communicating Risk in Multicultural Communities examines methods used to inform multicultural communities of risks that either do or may affect their lives.
Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Message Content, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This book provides a range of perspectives and strategies for providing mental health services to diverse populations following a disaster.
Subtopics: Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This book chapter focuses on the concepts and skills of health-related counseling needed to provide effective, culturally competent, family health counseling in disasters and reimbursement with families of diverse cultures.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Building Knowledge, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This book provides a qualitative assessment of the social and political factors which contributed to the 793 deaths attributed to the 1995 Chicago heat wave.
Subtopics: Organizational Supports, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This book examines socioeconomic inequalities in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.
Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters, Phase 8 - Reconstruction
Language(s): English
This book discusses how race and ethnicity contribute to behavior during a disaster. It focuses on the actions of Blacks, Whites, and Mexican Americans in various communities during different types of disasters.
Subtopics: Phase 6 - Response, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters, Chemical
Language(s): English
This book chapter provides an overview of the research literature on the psychological effects of disasters and terrorism on children and youth.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Bioterrorism, Building Knowledge, Natural Disasters, Terrorism
Language(s): English
This book contains 8 articles which examine the role of cultural in disasters form an anthropological perspective.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
This resource is a comic intended to communicate pandemic flu preparedness messages to low-literacy, limited- and non-English proficient groups.
Subtopics: Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Khmer/Cambodian, Somali, Vietnamese, Laotian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic
Subtopics: Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Khmer/Cambodian, Somali, Vietnamese, Laotian, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Ukrainian, Amharic
This handbook teaches families what to do before, during and after an earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area.
Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
This book uses four individual case studies to examine disaster recovery within the context of race, religion and ethnicity.
Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English