Date: TBD

Time: TBD

CFP 49 - Regular: Disasters and Health
Room: TBD

Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizer &

Presider: Virginia Berndt, McDaniel College

Description: 

Disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, spanning climate-related events, epidemics and pandemics, social disruptions such as war and conflict, and more. The impacts of disasters on health, healthcare, and health policy are substantial. Social vulnerability perspectives suggest that disasters disproportionately affect marginalized populations by exacerbating preexisting inequalities in disaster contexts. This session includes papers examining disasters and health, including migration, the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness, and environmental concerns.

Papers:

“‘Like a House Fire Every Week’: Urban Homelessness Management and the Dispossession of Life-Affirming Belongings,” Nicolas Gutierrez III, University of Southern California

“Personal Responsibility and Public Health Crisis: Preppers, Policy, and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Jonathan Nathaniel Redman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

“Place Matters: Regional and Residential Predictors of Environmental Worry across the United States,” M. E. Betsy Garrison, University of Arkansas, Elisabeth Ponce-Garcia, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Charleen McNeill, The University of Southern Mississippi, Robert V. Rohli and Nazla Bushra, Louisiana State University and Shobha Yadav, Texas A&M University

“Re-entry Is Re-injury: The Consequences of Multiple Border Crossings on Deportees’ Reintegration in the U.S.,” Angie Monreal, University of California, Irvine

“Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates: A Comparative Analysis across U.S. States and Counties,” Ting-Hui Lin, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Winner of the Health, Health Policy, and Health Services Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Post-Pandemic Perspectives on Children’s Social-Emotional Development,” Nicholas K. Stevenson and Melissa Villarreal, Grand Valley State University

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