Community engagement in disaster preparedness and recovery: a tale of two cities--Los Angeles and New Orleans.
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How an approach to community engagement for improving mental health services, disaster recovery, and preparedness from a community resiliency perspective emerged from their work in applying a partnered, participatory research framework, iteratively, in Los Angeles County and the City of New Orleans is described.About:
This article is published in Psychiatric Clinics of North America.The article was published on 2013-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Preparedness & Community engagement.read more
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Nuclear disasters and health: lessons learned, challenges, and proposals
Akira Ohtsuru,Koichi Tanigawa,Atsushi Kumagai,Ohtsura Niwa,Noboru Takamura,Sanae Midorikawa,Kenneth E. Nollet,Shunichi Yamashita,Hitoshi Ohto,Rethy K. Chhem,Mike Clarke +10 more
TL;DR: To overcome difficulties of risk communication and provide decision aids to protect workers, vulnerable people, and residents after a nuclear disaster, physicians should receive training in nuclear disaster response, which should include evidence-based interventions.
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How engaging are disaster management related social media channels? The case of Australian state emergency organisations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the levels of community engagement by various social media channels and found that social media acts as a promising vehicle to capture dispersed community knowledge on disaster management, but it still needs more utilisation.
Strengthening the Social Response to the Human Impacts of Environmental Change
Susan P. Kemp,Lawrence A. Palinkas,Marleen Wong,Kristen Wagner,Lisa Reyes Mason,Iris Chi,Paula S. Nurius,Jerry Floersch,Andreas Rechkemmer +8 more
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From “Earthquake and safety” school drills to “safe school-resilient communities”: A continuous attempt for promoting community-based disaster risk management in Iran
TL;DR: The Safe Schools-Resilient Communities (SS-RC) program as discussed by the authors was proposed by the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) in Iran to increase preparedness of students to potential earthquakes.
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Participatory Technology Development to Enhance Community Resilience.
Armen C. Arevian,Jennifer O'Hora,Felica Jones,Joseph Mango,Loretta Jones,Pluscedia Williams,Juanita Booker-Vaughns,Andrea Jones,Esmeralda Pulido,Denishia Banner-Jackson,Kenneth B. Wells +10 more
TL;DR: This is the first study, to the authors' knowledge, to demonstrate the feasibility of participatory technology development, an approach involving direct participation in the development, tailoring and maintenance of a mobile app by a broad set of stakeholders with high representation from racial/ethnic minorities from an under-resourced community.
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60,000 disaster victims speak: Part I. An empirical review of the empirical literature, 1981-2001.
Fran H. Norris,Matthew J. Friedman,Patricia J. Watson,Christopher M Byrne,Eolia M. Diaz,Krzysztof Kaniasty +5 more
TL;DR: Within adult samples, more severe exposure, female gender, middle age, ethnic minority status, secondary stressors, prior psychiatric problems, and weak or deteriorating psychosocial resources most consistently increased the likelihood of adverse outcomes.
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Collaborative Care Management of Late-Life Depression in the Primary Care Setting: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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TL;DR: The IMPACT collaborative care model appears to be feasible and significantly more effective than usual care for depression in a wide range of primary care practices.
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Community-Based Participatory Research for Health
TL;DR: Minkler and Wallerstein this article provide evidence that the field of community-based participatory research (CBPR) has reached an important developmental point as a field, even if we cannot as yet agree on a single name.
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Practical clinical trials: increasing the value of clinical research for decision making in clinical and health policy.
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Methods For Community - Based Participatory Research For Health
Barbara A. Israel,David Satcher +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of CBPR methods in community-based participatory research for health and discuss the role of focus groups in the development of these methods.