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ArticleJournal of public health management and practice : JPHMP

Assessing the Congregate Disaster Shelter: Using Shelter Facility Assessment Data for Evaluating Potential Hazards to Occupants During Disasters.

Miguel A Cruz, Stephanie Garcia, Muhammad A B Chowdhury, Josephine Malilay, Nancy Perea, O Dale Williams

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Article in Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miguel A CruzDepartments of Environmental and Occupational Health (Dr Cruz) and Biostatistics (Mss Garcia and Perea, Mr Chowdhury, and Dr Williams), Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, and National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Malilay).
Stephanie Garcia
Muhammad A B Chowdhury
Josephine Malilay
Nancy Perea
O Dale Williams
Corporation for Public Broadcasting · US

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disaster shelter assessments are environmental health assessments conducted during disaster situations to evaluate the living environment of shelters for hygiene, sanitation, and safety conditions. We conducted a secondary data analysis of shelter assessment records available (n = 108) on ice storms, floods, and tornado events from 1 state jurisdiction. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze results of environmental health deficiencies found in the facilities. The greater numbers of environmental health deficiencies were associated with sanitation (26%), facility physical issues (19%), and food areas (17%). Most deficiencies were reported following ice storms, tornadoes, and flood events. This report describes the first analysis of environmental health deficiencies found in disaster shelters across a spectrum of disaster events. Although the number of records analyzed for this project was small and results may not be generalizable, this new insight into the living environment in shelter facilities offers the first analysis of deficiencies of the shelter operation and living environment that have great potential to affect the safety and health of shelter occupants.

Indexed as

Cyclonic StormsDisastersFloodsTornadoesDisaster PlanningEmergency ShelterHumansSafety ManagementUnited States

Identifiers

PMID27798529
PMCPMC11223931
OpenAlexW2545587922

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