Emergency Decision Making

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

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

This presentation promotes a marketing based approach to foster emergency preparedness and discusses why the context of preparedness action is crucial to reaching vulnerable populations.

The American Community Survey provides information on demographics, housing, language, socioeconomic, and transportation, for single and three-year averages.

The American Housing Survey collects information on housing, apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant housing units, household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels, size of housing unit, and recent movers.

This audio presentation discusses emergency plans, decontamination, and hazardous material drills for people who are deaf whose primary language is American Sign Language, individuals with physical disabilities whose primary language is English, and people whose primary language is Spanish and who have limited or no English.
 

The goal of this report was to determine whether individuals in categories of English as a Second Language, Urban Asian, and Urban Caucasian have differing beliefs and perceptions about types of terrorism agents and events.

CDC SNAPS has pooled various data sources to develop national, state, and county profiles consisting of indicators relevant to emergency preparedness.

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.

This comprehensive manual serves as a guide for developing an emergency response plan from the ground up.

This article from the Contra Costa Times in California reports that Los Angeles County Residents are not fully prepared for a disaster.   Barriers to preparedness include distrust of service providers and limited English proficiency (LEP) in immigrants.

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

This matrix presents in depth results of a pilot study conducted by the Northwest Oregon Health Preparedness Organization

This press release describes the results of a survey administered in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas by the Harvard School of Public Health on emergency evacuations.
 

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

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

This audio file provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This handout provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This mobile video provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This multimedia presentation provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This web-video provides information on what to do in the case of a downed power line, and is available in multiple languages.

This Op-Ed piece discusses policies on illegal immigrants during emergency evacuations in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.

These Emergency Information cards provide basic questions on a person's emergency status in Kirundi and Swahili.

This slideshow presentation provides findings from a comprehensive review of literature and websites which assessed current initiatives and information available on emergency preparedness for racially and ethnically diverse communities.

This audio file provides information on evacuation and community shelters, and is available in multiple languages.

This handout provides information on evacuation and community shelters, and is available in multiple languages.

This mobile video provides information on evacuation and community shelters, and is available in multiple languages.

This multimedia presentation provides information on evacuation and community shelters, and is available in multiple languages.

This web-video provides information on evacuation and community shelters, and is available in multiple languages.

This resource guide is available in English and Chinese, and provides information on where to go, how to prepare, what to do, and where to call during an emergency.