Factors in the development of community resilience to disasters

Pfefferbaum, Rose L.; Reissman, Dori B.; Pfefferbaum, Betty; Wyche, Karen Fraser; Norris, Fran H.; Klomp, Richard W.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511585975.004

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“…Creating an awareness of community resilience can be motivating, especially among those who are invested in, or want to become invested in, their community. Ideally, community resilience activities and processes offer opportunities to convene, collaborate, and communicate with other community residents; to identify and affirm shared values, interests, and goals; to engage in critical reflection and skill development; and to join in efforts to build and sustain resilience over time and across adversities (Pfefferbaum et al 2015;Pfefferbaum et al 2008). To the extent that community resilience activities, programs, and interventions encourage team building, foster communication, enhance social connectedness and social capital, and promote skill development, they may increase both personal and community resilience.…”

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A Conceptual Framework to Enhance Community Resilience Using Social Capital

2015

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Community resilience has been recognized and promoted as both a vision and a strategy for disaster management. This paper establishes the importance of community resilience in disaster management, describes disaster management phases and the disaster system of care, reviews definitions and dimensions of community resilience and related foundational concepts (social groups, social networks, and social capital), and endorses a conceptual framework for enhancing community resilience through social capital. Resilience, both personal and community resilience, is increased by the social capital that emerges from improved social connections and social networks. Effective disaster management, which requires an informed and engaged public, relies on social networks to connect and support individuals, families, groups, and organizations within the community and to link the community with the disaster system of care. Community disaster teams can identify and engage in activities that promote personal and community resilience, and the team process itself can create social capital that also advances personal and community resilience. The enhancement framework advocated in this paper focuses on the role of social capital in augmenting community resilience derived from people's interactions in groups, social networks, and teams.

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“…Because collective well-being before a health incident can affect people's need for resources and the length of the recovery period, sustaining an overall level of wellness can serve as a social and individual resource for resilience Pfefferbaum et al, 2008). The overall resilience of a community can rest on the extent to which community members practice healthy lifestyles and are aware of the community's health-related functional needs (e.g., number of people who need transportation assistance, number of people on dialysis) that, if ignored, can render emergency response and recovery difficult.…”

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“…One way to support pre-incident prevention and population wellness is to create a culture in which individuals understand the relationship between individual and community preparedness, and know how to remain generally healthy Pfefferbaum et al, 2008). Fostering such a culture may depend in part on appropriately conveying information to the public.…”

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Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security

Chandra¹,

Acosta²,

Howard³

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“…Recent regional meetings with stakeholders to develop the National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) revealed that questions remain unanswered as to how to develop and measure a community's resilience in the face of manmade and natural threats. To date, we have many theoretical models articulating factors that contribute to community resilience Pfefferbaum et al, 2007;Pfefferbaum et al, 2008) such as community cohesion and the ability to marshal resources quickly, but we have less empirical evidence about what constitutes the integral components of resiliency. Despite a limited evidence base, enhanced resilience is considered critical to mitigating vulnerabilities, reducing negative health consequences, and rapidly restoring community functioning.…”

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Understanding Community Resilience in the Context of National Health Security: A Literature Review

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Acosta²,

Meredith³

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INTRODUCTIONBuilding community resilience, or the capability to rebound from a disaster (Pfefferbaum et al., 2005), is a cornerstone of national health security. Recent regional meetings with stakeholders to develop the National Health Security Strategy (NHSS) revealed that questions remain unanswered as to how to develop and measure a community's resilience in the face of manmade and natural threats. To date, we have many theoretical models articulating factors that contribute to community resilience Pfefferbaum et al., 2007;Pfefferbaum et al., 2008) such as community cohesion and the ability to marshal resources quickly, but we have less empirical evidence about what constitutes the integral components of resiliency. Despite a limited evidence base, enhanced resilience is considered critical to mitigating vulnerabilities, reducing negative health consequences, and rapidly restoring community functioning. According to the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-21 (HSPD-21), resilience is essential to limiting the need for prolonged assistance post disaster. In order to improve resilience, Bruneau (2003) argues that communities must build capabilities that are characterized by robustness (the ability to withstand stress), redundancy (resource diversity), and rapidity (the ability to mobilize resources quickly). These efforts ensure that communities (and especially those with resource poor neighborhoods) will have the ability during an event to respond quickly, even when critical parts of the community are severely impacted, and to return to normal functioning with little delay.Despite an understanding that community resilience is critical, the stakeholders responsible for ensuring national health security (both government and non-governmental organizations) do not have a working definition or a clear understanding of how to measure resilience for health security. Further, we have limited information about key strategies to enhance resilience. This literature review synthesizes the existing evidence base on resilience to identify drivers for health-related emergency planning. The review lays a foundation for upcoming analyses that will provide a working definition of community resilience, identify activities for building resilience, and offer associated metrics. These activities and metrics will be integrated into the NHSS implementation plan. (BENS 2009;SERRI/CARRI 2009), far less is understood about community resilience in the context of national health security (National health security is achieved when the Nation and its people are prepared for, protected from, respond effectively to, and able to recover from incidents with potentially negative health consequences). Further, many of the articles and reports are based on theoretical and somewhat complicated frameworks with less attention to core components that can be operationalized for action. Given the focus of the NHSS on strengthening resilience over the next four years, it is essential to consider the core components of resilience that may contribute ...

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Factors in the development of community resilience to disasters

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

A Conceptual Framework to Enhance Community Resilience Using Social Capital

A Conceptual Framework to Enhance Community Resilience Using Social Capital

Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security

Understanding Community Resilience in the Context of National Health Security: A Literature Review

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