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ArticleFrontiers in public health2025

Disaster governance, energy insecurity, and public health in rural Puerto Rico: how communities resist political abandonment.

Sergio Rivera-Rodríguez, Adrian Santiago-Santiago, Sheilla R-Madera, Mark Padilla, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Kariela Rivera-Bustelo, Claudia Mercado-Rios, John Vertovec, Arturo Massol-Deyá, Jeffrey Ramos and 4 more

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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14 authors.

Sergio Rivera-RodríguezCUNY School of Public Health, New York, NY, United States.
Adrian Santiago-SantiagoPonce Health Sciences University, Ponce, PR, United States.
Sheilla R-MaderaFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Mark PadillaFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Nelson Varas-DíazFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Kariela Rivera-BusteloFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Claudia Mercado-RiosPonce Health Sciences University, Ponce, PR, United States.
John VertovecFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Arturo Massol-DeyáUniversity of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, Mayagüez, PR, United States.
Jeffrey RamosUniversity of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, United States.
Genevieve ReidFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Rebecca Rodríguez-BanchFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Kevin GroveFlorida International University, Miami, FL, United States.
Emil Varas-RodríguezMayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States.

Funding

Clinical and Translational Cancer Control Research Training ProgramT32CA102618 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER · PI Michelle C Janelsins, Gary R Morrow · 2019 to 2026
$2.7M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA102618
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Abstract

Puerto Rico, an unincorporated US territory, faces systemic governmental neglect that disproportionately affects public health, particularly in the wake of disasters. Systemic patterns of political corruption, and post-disaster mismanagement, rooted in colonial governance, have shaped PR's longstanding vulnerability reflecting in frequent power outages and energy delays. This study examines political abandonment feelings in Puerto Rico through the lens of energy insecurity and disaster governance, focusing on the rural municipality of Adjuntas. Using Atiles' framework of Normalization of Exceptionality and (In)Security, we investigate how state inaction, privatization, and bureaucratic inefficiencies perpetuate vulnerability in disaster-prone communities. Using qualitative in depth-interviews with Adjuntas' residents living with chronic conditions (

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DisastersPoliticsPublic HealthRural PopulationAdultFemaleHumansInterviews as TopicMaleMiddle AgedPuerto RicoQualitative Researchaging populationcommunity organizationdisastersenergy insecuritypolitical abandonmentrural communitiessolar power

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PMID40717943
PMCPMC12289668

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