Building Capacity for Community Disaster Preparedness: A Call for Collaboration Between Public Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs

Gamboa-Maldonado, Thelma; Marshak, Helen Hopp; Sinclair, Ryan; Montgomery, Susanne; Dyjack, David T.

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Building Capacity for Community Disaster Preparedness: A Call for Collaboration Between Public Environmental Health and Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs

9 2012
By Gamboa-Maldonado, Thelma ; Marshak, Helen Hopp ; Sinclair, Ryan ; ...
Source: J Environ Health. 75(2):24-29

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J Environ Health
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Gamboa-Maldonado, Thelma ; Marshak, Helen Hopp ; Sinclair, Ryan ; Montgomery, Susanne ; Dyjack, David T.

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Partnerships among local public environmental health (EH), emergency preparedness and response (EPR) programs, and the communities they serve have great potential to build community environmental health emergency preparedness (EHEP) capacity. In the study described in this article, the beliefs and organizational practices pertaining to community EHEP outreach and capacity were explored through key informant (KI) interviews (N = 14) with a sample of governmental EH and EPR administrators and top-level managers from Riverside and San Bernardino counties in Southern California. The results indicate that KIs were highly confident in their workforces' efficacy, ability, willingness, and motivation to directly engage local communities in EHEP. Best practices to combat organizational and systematic barriers to community EHEP outreach were identified. Based on the authors' results, training in participatory methods is needed to bridge technical knowledge in emergency management to daily practice. The lessons learned will form the basis of future interventions aimed to prepare EH and EPR professions to implement community-focused emergency preparedness strategies.
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California Community-Institutional Relations Disaster Planning Emergency Responders Environmental Health Financing, Organized Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Humans Motivation Professional Role Qualitative Research
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J Environ Health. 75(2):24-29
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22984732
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PMC4651206
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Journal Article
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P01 TP000303/TP/OPHPR CDC HHSUnited States/ ; P20 MD001632/MD/NIMHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; 1P01TP000303-01/TP/OPHPR CDC HHSUnited States/

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75
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2
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