CDC Social Vulnerability Index : a tool to identify socially vulnerable communities

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• Corporate Authors:
  United States. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Geospatial Research, Analysis & Services Program.
• Description:
  Every community must prepare for and respond to hazardous events, whether a natural disaster like a tornado or disease outbreak, or a human-made event such as a harmful chemical spill. A number of factors, including poverty, lack of access to transportation, and crowded housing may weaken a community’s ability to prevent human suffering and financial loss in a disaster. These factors are known as social vulnerability.
  
  What is CDC Social Vulnerability Index?: ATSDR’s Geospatial Research, Analysis & Services Program (GRASP) created databases to help emergency response planners and public health officials identify and map communities that will most likely need support before, during, and after a hazardous event.
  
  Publication date from document properties.
  
  VI_FactSheet_v10152020-H.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Geographic Information Systems Risk Assessment Social Justice Social Vulnerability Socioeconomic Factors Vulnerable Populations
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:30768b61055f9630994b7bc6e33687689c9ea07804d0d647dadad34fd14f9ca8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/111729/cdc_111729_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 384.97 KB ]