1. Community Engagement in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
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Alonzo L. Plough, Kenneth B. Wells, Benjamin Springgate, Elizabeth Lizaola, and Felicia Jones
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Community resilience ,Community engagement ,business.industry ,Disaster recovery ,Community-based participatory research ,Participatory action research ,Public relations ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Preparedness ,Public participation ,Environmental health ,Political science ,Community health ,business - Abstract
Awareness of the impact of disasters globally on mental health is increasing. Known difficulties in preparing communities for disasters and a lack of focus on relationship building and organizational capacity in preparedness and response have led to a greater policy focus on community resiliency as a key public health approach to disaster response. In this article, the authors describe 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.
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- 2013
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