Mississippi front-line recovery work after Hurricane Katrina: An analysis of the intersections of gender, race, and class in advocacy, power relations, and health

Risk and resilience factors affecting the psychological wellbeing of individuals deployed in humanitarian relief roles after a disaster

“…Poor organisational support was significantly associated with increased likelihood of depression post-deployment in international DRWs (Bjerneld et al, 2004;, while good organisational support and sensitive staff management practices were demonstrated to contribute to the positive occupational health of body handlers (Alexander, 1993). Leaders who gave good feedback and were perceived as recognising workers' efforts were viewed more positively; lack of recognition in efforts and feeling undervalued were considered stressors (Cox, 1997;Curling & Simmons, 2010), particularly for those working in small organisations (Weber & Messias, 2012).…”

Reproductive Health Assessment After Disasters: Embedding a Toolkit within the Disaster Management Workforce to Address Health Inequalities among Gulf-Coast Women

“…Regional hospitals and community-based resources absorbed the heavy load of navigating displaced people and others in need of care to with little to no system-wide support. 1,[11][12][13] Although disaster management plans now more clearly defi ne the role of public health in emergency response and address the importance of patient education and activation on how to use health care resources and manage health during and in the aft ermath of disaster, strategies to increase emergency response capacity do not include a plan for patient-centered tools and skills to be reinforced by a navigator or coach. 5,14 Despite the potential for navigation programs in mitigating health consequences of disaster, no research has been conducted on how the patient navigation framework could be successfully embedded into Gulf Coast health systems, nor have researchers examined how an evidence-based intervention could be implemented within existing community-academic partnerships associated with environmental health, disaster management, and reproductive health initiatives.…”

Vulnerability and adaptation to heat in cities: perspectives and perceptions of local adaptation decision-makers in Sweden

“…Four out of six highly vulnerable persons are women and three out of the four that eventually dies are women. Thus, we see that single factors are not directly perceived to affect vulnerability, but that it is the combination of factors, or multiple inequalities (Weber and Messias 2012), that actually determines vulnerability. Thus, the exposure of, in this case a heat wave, is not considered as the starting point of the vulnerability (Brown and Walker 2008) of Astrid, Svea, Raija and Sven, but rather inherent in their situation and exploited by the hazard.…”

“…social care staff whose work load increase during a heat wave. Although differences in magnitude and time scale, this double pressure or exposure could be compared with the situation of front-line recovery workers in the study of aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina by Weber and Messias (2012), where years of under-resourced work and structural down-prioritisation lead to fatigue, stress and finally burnout of many of these workers. Similar diagnoses are also common in the Swedish health care system (Karlsson et al 2009, Josefsson 2012.…”