Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities After Disasters: Strategies, Opportunities, and Planning for Recovery

This volume identifies and recommends recovery practices and novel programs most likely to impact overall community public health and contribute to resiliency for future incidents. Thie book calls for actions at multiple levels to facilitate recovery strategies that optimize community health.

This book makes the case that disaster recovery should be guided by a healthy community vision, where health considerations are integrated into all aspects of recovery planning before and after a disaster, and funding streams are leveraged in a coordinated manner and applied to health improvement priorities in order to meet human recovery needs and create healthy built and natural environments.
The conceptual framework presented in the book lays the groundwork to achieve this goal and provides operational guidance for multiple sectors involved in community planning and disaster recovery.
With a shared healthy community vision, strategic planning that prioritizes health, and coordinated implementation, disaster recovery can result in a communities that are healthier, more livable places for current and future generations to grow and thrive - communities that are better prepared for future adversities.

Brief Contents
Reviewers
Preface
Contents
Boxes, Figures, and Tables
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Glossary
Abstract
Summary
PART I: A HEALTHY COMMUNITY APPROACH TO DISASTER RECOVERY
1 Introduction
2 Post-Disaster Opportunities to Advance Healthy, Resilient, and Sustainable Communities
3 A Framework for Integrating Health into Recovery Planning
4 Leveraging Recovery Resources in a Coordinated Manner to Achieve Healthier Post-Disaster Communities
PART II: OPERATIONAL GUIDANCE TO SUPPORT A HEALTHY COMMUNITY APPROACH TO DISASTER RECOVERY
5 Public Health
6 Health Care
7 Behavioral Health
8 Social Services
9 Place-Based Recovery Strategies for Healthy Communities
10 Healthy Housing
PART III: APPENDIXES
Appendix A: The Federal Policy Environment Influencing Disaster Recovery
Appendix B: Disaster Recovery Funding: Achieving a Resilient Future?
Appendix C: Additional Resources
Appendix D: Measures and Tools for Healthy Communities
Appendix E: Committee-Identified Research Needs
Appendix F: Key to Select Terms Used to Describe Primary Actors and Key Partners in Chapter 510 Checklists
Appendix G: Public Committee Meeting Agendas
Appendix H: Committee Biosketches