Health Disparities, Disasters, and Crises Approaches for a Culture of Preparedness

Chapter 1.       Health, Inequalities, and Building a Culture of Preparedness

Roland J. Thorpe, Jr. and DeMond Miller

Chapter 2.       Inclusive Preparedness and Emergency Response for Disasters Yet to Come

Derron G. Cooney and DeMond S. Miller

Chapter 3.       Racialized Healthcare Inequities as Determinant of COVID-19 Disaster Risks and Outcomes:  Moving Towards COVID-19 Disaster Recovery

Paul Archibald, Marino A. Bruce, Keith C. Norris, Roland J. Thorpe, Jr.

Chapter 4.       Partnering with Black Organizations to Deliver Vaccine Education in Black Communities

Rhonda BeLue, Sawsan Salah, Clare Schuchardt, Kelly D. Taylor, Alyssa Coleman, Adaobi Anakwe, Noel-London KC, DeBorah Ahmed, Echols, F.

Chapter 5.       Towards re-enforcing resilience in crisis: African American family voices during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adaobi Anakwe, Wilson Majee, Monica Ponder, Rhonda BeLue

Chapter 6.       Understanding How Disasters Worsen Disparities in Non-Communicable Diseases

Saria Hassan, Dabney Evans

Chapter 7.       Preparedness for Pandemic Disasters to Come

Mohamud Sheek-Hussein, Muhammad Abid, Fikri Abu-Zidan

Chapter 8.       Cross-National Newspaper Coverage of Climate Change: Community Structure Theory and “Buffered” Health  and Female Privilege

John C. Pollock, Faris El Akbani, Avantika Butani, Robert Robinson, Miranda Crowley

Chapter 9.       Disaster Response Inclusiveness to Persons with Disabilities and the Elderly in the Philippines

Joseph Christian Obnial, Jacqueline Veronica Velasco, Hillary Kay Ang, Paulene Miriel Viacrusis, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III

Chapter 10.     Gender Dimension of Disasters in Africa: Building a Gender Inclusive Culture of Preparedness

Goodness Ogeyi Odey, Ouma Atieno Sarah, Samar Mohammed Alhaj, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno III

Chapter 11.     Pre-existing sociodemographic and health characteristics and trends in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Louisiana

Hui Liew, Leslie Green

Chapter 12.     Social Inequality, COVID-19, and the Delta Wave: Intersections of Race, Gender, and Education

Chapter 13.     Convergence of COVID-19 Pandemic Disaster, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorder

Paul Archibald, Anthony T. Estreet, Len Price, Jr.

Chapter 14.     How Deliberate Planning and Improvisation Shaped Our Response to COVID-19

Len Clark

Chapter 15.     Lessons Learned and Moving Forward from Hurricane Katrina: Emergency Response Planning to Build an Inclusive Response Framework

Nicola Davis Bivens, DeMond Shondell Miller

Chapter 16.     Health Disparities and Promoting a Culture of Preparedness: Building Resilience and Tangible Trust in an Age of Disasters

DeMond Shondell Miller, Roland J. Thorpe, Jr.

Index

Biography

Roland J. Thorpe Jr. holds joint appointments in medicine and neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is an Associate Professor of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He serves as the Director of the Program for Research on Men’s Health at the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions. Dr. Thorpe’s research focuses on racial and socioeconomic health disparities, particularly among US men.

DeMond S. Miller is a Professor of Sociology, Professor of Disaster Science and Emergency Management, and coordinates the Program in Healthcare Management and Administration. He serves as the Program Director in Disaster Science and Emergency Management. Dr. Miller’s primary areas of research specialization are environmental sociology (disaster studies), sustainable disaster recovery, disaster equity studies, emergency services and response, community development, community-based research, technological disasters, international irregular migration, and acts of terror as disasters.