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“They Blew the Levee”: Distrust of Authorities among Hurricane Katrina Evacuees

Drawing from qualitative research, this article examines how trust in authorities influenced New Orleans residents’ reactions to warnings and the public health advice.

Subtopics: Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Building Trust, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

A Mobile Medical Care Approach Targeting Underserved Populations in Post-Hurricane Katrina Mississippi

This article highlights the importance of staffing clinicians who are familiar with social and cultural needs of diverse populations in post- disaster mobile medical care.

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Phase 6 - Response
Language(s): English

Adjusting to Uncertainty: Coping Strategies Among the Displaced After Hurricane Katrina

This qualitative study examines differences in coping strategies by gender, race, and income of individuals who were displaced after Hurricane Katrina.

Subtopics: Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

African Americans’ Decisions Not to Evacuate New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina: A Qualitative Study

In this study, focus groups were conducted to identify themes in African Americans’ decisions not to evacuate New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina.

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Message Content, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning
Language(s): English

An Assessment of the Cultural Appropriateness of Emergency Preparedness Communication for Low Income Minorities

For this article, a content analysis of web-based emergency preparedness risk communication materials was conducted to determine their appropriateness in reaching low income African Americans and Latinos in Maryland.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Message Content, Phase 3 - Warning, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English

Assessment of Public Health Workforce Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Readiness Among Tribes in Washington State: A Collaborative Approach Among the Northwest Center for Public Health Practice, the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, and the Washington State Department of Health

This article examines the collaboration, methodology, results, and lessons learned stemming from the experience of a unique university, state, and tribal collaborative model for public health emergency preparedness assessment activities.

Subtopics: Building Partnerships, Building Knowledge, Building Trust
Language(s): English

Attending to Social Vulnerability when Rationing Pandemic Resources

This article presents recommendations from the Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project regarding health resource rationing in pandemics with an explicit focus on socially vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic minorities.

 

Subtopics: Outbreaks
Language(s): English

Bon Feerey: A Teaching and Learning Methodology for Healing the Wounds of Distance, Displacement, and Loss Caused by Hurricane Katrina

This article discusses the utilization of new ideas and approaches to help students and teachers study and understand how Hurricane Katrina continues to impact African American youth in New Orleans.

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Partnerships
Language(s): English

Bridging The Cultural Divide: Cultural Competence In Public Safety

This article reviews cultural competence in emergency settings and is specifically geared towards 911 operators.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response
Language(s): English

Carbon monoxide epidemic among immigrant populations: King County, Washington, 2006.

This article presents the findings from a study of a carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning outbreak and that disproportionately affected immigrant populations.

Subtopics: Language Access Services, Phase 7 - Recovery, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

Church-based social capital, networks and geographical scale: Katrina evacuation, relocation, and recovery in a New Orleans Vietnamese American community

This research examines the role of social capital and networks to explain the evacuation, relocation, and recovery experiences of a Vietnamese American community in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  

Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Building Partnerships, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

Clinical findings and demographic factors associated with ICU admission in Utah due to novel 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection.

This cohort study found that young non-whites without medical insurance were disproportionately likely to require ICU care for H1N1.

Subtopics: Outbreaks
Language(s): English

Communicating Across Cultures: Improving Translation to Improve Complex Emergency Program Effectiveness

This paper describes many of the common issues surrounding translation that frequently are not appreciated by aid workers, including clinicians, in Complex Emergencies.

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Phase 6 - Response
Language(s): English

Communicating Effectively with Vulnerable Populations during Water Contamination Events

This article focuses on strategies to effectively communicate with vulnerable populations, including racial/ethnic minorities and individuals with limited English proficiency (LEP), in the event of a water contamination crisis.  

Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning
Language(s): English

Communicating the Risks of Bioterrorism and Other Emergencies in a Diverse Society: A Case Study of Special Populations in North Dakota

The objective of this study was to identify differences in preferred sources of emergency information and identify attitudes about the agencies the affect risk communication among special populations.

Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Message Content, Bioterrorism
Language(s): English

Communicating Throughout Katrina: Competing and Complementary Conceptual Lenses on Crisis Communication

Using the case of Hurricane Katrina to illustrate the collapse of the standard model of emergency management without a clear focus on the role of cognition, the authors reframe the concept of intergovernmental crisis management as a complex, adaptive system.

Subtopics: Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Channels of Communication, Message Content, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 3 - Warning, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

Communication for Public-Decision Making in a Negative Historical Context: Building Intercultural Relations in the British Columbia Treaty Process

This qualitative work emphasizes the importance of accounting for differences in the communication structures of culturally diverse populations in the public decision making process.  

Subtopics: Building Partnerships, Building Trust
Language(s): English

Continually Neglected: Situating Natural Disasters in the African American Experience

This article addresses the neglect of African American communities socially, politically, geographically, and economically, particularly with respect to natural disasters and environmental injustice.

Subtopics: Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 4 - Physical Impact
Language(s): English

Crisis and emergency risk communication in a pandemic: a model for building capacity and resilience of minority communities

This article proposes a model of community engagement, disaster risk education, and crisis and emergency risk communication to prepare minority communities and government agencies to work effectively in a pandemic, build the capacity of each to respond, and strengthen the trust that is critical at such moments.

Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Message Content, Outbreaks, Emergency Decision Making
Language(s): English

Crisis Communication, Race and Natural Disasters

This study compares differences in crisis preparation, information-seeking patterns, and media use on the basis of race in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English

Crisis Communications: Ethnic Differentials in Interpreting and Acting on Disaster Warnings

This report examines the problem of communicating emergency information to communities which are multi-ethnic.

Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Message Content, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning
Language(s): English

Crisis Preparation, Media Use, and Information Seeking: Patterns across Katrina Evacuees and Lessons Learned for Crisis Communication

This qualitative study examined crisis preparation, information seeking patterns, and media use in 964 Hurricane Katrina evacuees.   

Subtopics: Channels of Communication, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English

Cultural, Ethical, and Spiritual Competencies of Health Care Providers Responding to a Catastrophic Event

This article discusses the importance of providing health care that is culturally, ethically, and spiritually appropriate in crisis situations and provides an overview of resources to enhance competence in each domain.

 

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Phase 6 - Response
Language(s): English

Deaths Related to 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Among American Indian/Alaska Natives

This MMWR article descrives the disproportionate number of H1N1 related deaths among American Indian/Alaska Natives. According to an investigation which spanned 12 states, the rate of H1N1 related deaths in AI/AN was 4.0 times higher than death rates for all other racial/ethnic populations.

Subtopics: Outbreaks
Language(s): English

Defining Cultural Competence: A Practical Framework for Addressing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care

This article aims to define cultural competence based upon review of the relevant literature of academic, foundation, and government publications.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Language Access Services, Organizational Supports
Language(s): English

Developing a Disaster Preparedness Campaign Targeting Low-Income Latino Immigrants: Focus Group Results for Project PREP

This article describes the methods and findings of a study to develop a disaster preparedness program for low-income Latino immigrants.  

Subtopics: Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English

Differences in Individual-Level Terrorism Preparedness in Los Angeles County

This study analyzed the individual preparedness of people in Los Angeles County following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax attacks.

Subtopics: Bioterrorism, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English

Disaster Planning and Risk Communication with Vulnerable Communities: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

This qualitative study examines factors influencing evacuation decisions of impoverished, mainly minority communities in New Orleans who were severely affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Subtopics: Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English

Disaster Preparedness of Linguistically Isolated Populations: Practical Issues for Planners

This article presents the findings from a series of focus groups that were conducted in Houston, Texas to inform the development of effective emergency communication and service delivery strategies in linguistically isolated communicates.     

Subtopics: Language Access Services, Channels of Communication, Message Content
Language(s): English

Disparities by race in heat-related mortality in four US cities: The role of air conditioning prevalence

This article explores the role of air conditioning prevalence in explaining racial disparities in heat-related outcomes.

Subtopics: Natural Disasters
Language(s): English
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