Health-related nonprofit response to concurrent disaster events

García, Ivis; Chandrasekhar, Divya; Ganapati, N. Emel; Ojeda, Kevin Fagundo; Diaz, Jose E. Velázquez; Witkowski, Kaila

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103279

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“…Such practices are built on the strengths of local people, culture, and Country in alliance with community organisations and members to enable recovery, healing, health and well-being. This paper joins calls [45,3,25] to recognise and fund the signi cant work of ACCHOs and other community-based organisations in disaster response and recovery.…”

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confidence: 86%

Supporting recovery, healing and wellbeing with Aboriginal communities of the southeast coast of Australia: a practice-based study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health corganisation’s response to cumulative disasters

Keevers,

Mackay,

Cutmore

et al. 2023

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Background The recent crises of bushfires, floods, and the COVID-19 pandemic on the southeast coast of Australia were unprecedented in their extent and intensity. Few studies have investigated responses to cumulative disasters in First Nations communities, despite acknowledgement that these crises disproportionately impact First Nations people. This study was conducted by a team of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal researchers in partnership with Waminda, South Coast Women’s Health and Wellbeing Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. It investigated the collective experiences of people affected by cumulative disasters to identify the practices that support healing, and recovery for Aboriginal communities. The study addresses a knowledge gap of how Waminda, designs, manages and delivers responses to address complex health and social issues in the context of cumulative disasters. Methods Underpinned by practice theory this study employed Indigenous-Informed, Narrative Inquiry. Healthcare settings and organisations are turning to practice theory to understand health system responses and service user experience. Culturally-appropriate, multiple interpretive methods were used to collect data including: observations; yarns with Aboriginal community members, yarns with Waminda practitioners, management and board members; interviews-to-the-double, visual images and documentation. The data were collated and analysed using the phases of reflexive thematic analysis. Results The paper articulates a suite of culturally safe and place-based practices that enhance social, emotional and spiritual well-being following cumulative disasters. These practice bundles include: adopting a Country-centred conception of local communities; being community-led; viewing care as a collective, relational sociomaterial accomplishment and having fluid boundaries. These practice bundles ‘hang together’ through organising practices including the Waminda Model of Care, staff wellbeing framework and emergency management plan which orient action and manage risks. Conclusions The paper suggests crafting responses that focus on assisting communities (re)gain their sense of belonging, hope for the future, control over their lives and their capacities to care for and to be cared for by Country, are key to enhancing healing, health and well-being. ACCHOs are shown to play a crucial role, and their local responses to immediate community needs are grounded in contextual knowledge and use existing resources rather than relying on mainstream system-wide interventions.

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Supporting recovery, healing and wellbeing with Aboriginal communities of the southeast coast of Australia: a practice-based study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health corganisation’s response to cumulative disasters

Keevers,

Mackay,

Cutmore

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…8 • Impacts and interactions of COVID-19 with other concurrent or sequential disasters, and capacity and preparedness to deal with multiple or compound disasters. 9 Based on these factors, there is great variation in global disaster management performance during the COVID-19 pandemic between different countries and regions. Some countries and regions have successfully controlled the spread of COVID-19 and minimized its impacts, while others have had great difficulty in dealing with COVID-19 and its impacts.…”

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Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of Global Disaster Management in the Post-COVID-19 Era

Suarjana

2024

Disaster med. public health prep.

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“…Fujimoto et al 2022) (see Tatsuki in this in this Special Issue), the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami (e.g. Frankenberg et al 2017Frankenberg et al , 2023Gray et al 2014), the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake (Wu 2021), the 2015 Nepal Earthquake (Loos et al 2023;The Asia Foundation 2021), and the 2020 Hurricanes and Earthquake in Puerto Rico (Garcia et al 2022). The many more papers presented at this Researchers Meeting featured engaging presentations covering additional topics including approaches to conduct longitudinal recovery studies, methods to model recovery, and evaluations of unequal recovery outcomes, among others.…”

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confidence: 99%

IJMED special issue: Longitudinal recovery

Hamideh,

Loos,

Rivera

et al. 2023

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Health-related nonprofit response to concurrent disaster events

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Supporting recovery, healing and wellbeing with Aboriginal communities of the southeast coast of Australia: a practice-based study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health corganisation’s response to cumulative disasters

Supporting recovery, healing and wellbeing with Aboriginal communities of the southeast coast of Australia: a practice-based study of an Aboriginal community-controlled health corganisation’s response to cumulative disasters

Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities of Global Disaster Management in the Post-COVID-19 Era

IJMED special issue: Longitudinal recovery

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