Getting actionable about community resilience: The Los Angeles county community disaster resilience project

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1181-1189

  Chandra, Anita ^a   Williams, Malcolm ^a   Plough, Alonzo ^b   Stayton, Alix ^c   Wells, Kenneth B ^d   Horta, Mariana ^e   Tang, Jennifer ^d  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Los Angeles County Department of Public Health   (United States)

^c University of Los Angeles   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA COLLECTION; DISASTER PLANNING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879012416     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301270     Document Type: Article

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