Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response – Resources
Selected recent or important resources focusing on Rural Emergency Preparedness and Response.
Lessons for Future Pandemics: Temporal Evolution and Rural-Urban Variations in the Impacts of the COVID-19 on Opioid Use Treatment
Presents a study highlighting the lessons learned from opioid use treatment programs operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explores the impact of the pandemic on treatment services. Discusses the use of telehealth for both counseling and medication prescribing, as well as the challenges faced by patients trying to obtain treatment during the pandemic.
Author(s): Zhongyang He, Jonathan M. Heess, Travis Young, Zhen Lei
Citation: PLoS ONE, 19(9), e0310386
Date: 09/2024
Type: Document
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Presents a study highlighting the lessons learned from opioid use treatment programs operating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Explores the impact of the pandemic on treatment services. Discusses the use of telehealth for both counseling and medication prescribing, as well as the challenges faced by patients trying to obtain treatment during the pandemic.
Author(s): Zhongyang He, Jonathan M. Heess, Travis Young, Zhen Lei
Citation: PLoS ONE, 19(9), e0310386
Date: 09/2024
Type: Document
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ISLAND: How to Create an Environment Where People Thrive
Podcast in which James Small of the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health discusses the ISLAND program, developed to help leadership improve inclusion, safety, laughs, accountability, nourishment, and direction in their organizations, especially those in small communities with limited resources. Includes transcript.
Date: 07/2024
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Fire Administration
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Podcast in which James Small of the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health discusses the ISLAND program, developed to help leadership improve inclusion, safety, laughs, accountability, nourishment, and direction in their organizations, especially those in small communities with limited resources. Includes transcript.
Date: 07/2024
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Fire Administration
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Federal Housing and Sheltering Resource Timeline and Compendium
Graphics providing an overview of when federal programs for housing and sheltering become available during the disaster life cycle. Intended to help state, local, tribal, and territorial officials identify federal resources that can help them develop, repair, and replace their housing stock and enhance community resiliency. Features information about grants, including those available to rural communities.
Date: 07/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Graphics providing an overview of when federal programs for housing and sheltering become available during the disaster life cycle. Intended to help state, local, tribal, and territorial officials identify federal resources that can help them develop, repair, and replace their housing stock and enhance community resiliency. Features information about grants, including those available to rural communities.
Date: 07/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Rural Communities of Color Are Overrepresented among Community Disaster Resilience Zones
Analysis of the rurality of community disaster resilience zones (CDRZs), a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designation that offers priority federal support for preparation for and response to disasters. Includes data breakdown by remoteness and distribution of people of color. Discusses rates of philanthropic giving.
Author(s): Anne N. Junod, Violet Sulka/Hewes, Amy Rogin
Date: 04/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Urban Institute
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Analysis of the rurality of community disaster resilience zones (CDRZs), a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designation that offers priority federal support for preparation for and response to disasters. Includes data breakdown by remoteness and distribution of people of color. Discusses rates of philanthropic giving.
Author(s): Anne N. Junod, Violet Sulka/Hewes, Amy Rogin
Date: 04/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Urban Institute
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Health Care Coalitions: A Resource to Support Critical Access Hospital Emergency Preparedness Planning
Describes unique challenges Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) face regarding emergency preparedness planning. Presents findings from interviews with leaders from 8 statewide or regional healthcare coalitions (HCCs) regarding strategies and resources HCCs provide to support the CAH emergency preparedness planning process. Outlines the functions and roles of HCCs by the 4 Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) capability goals.
Author(s): John Gale, Karen Pearson, Rebecca Stearns
Date: 04/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Describes unique challenges Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) face regarding emergency preparedness planning. Presents findings from interviews with leaders from 8 statewide or regional healthcare coalitions (HCCs) regarding strategies and resources HCCs provide to support the CAH emergency preparedness planning process. Outlines the functions and roles of HCCs by the 4 Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) capability goals.
Author(s): John Gale, Karen Pearson, Rebecca Stearns
Date: 04/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Flex Monitoring Team
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Ready or Not 2024: Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism
Report explores the readiness of state public health systems to respond to emergencies, such as diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism. Focuses on measures such as hospital safety scores, vaccination rates, and water system maintenance, among others. Includes rural considerations throughout.
Author(s): Matt McKillop, Rhea K. Farberman, Dara Alpert Lieberman
Date: 03/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Trust for America's Health
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Report explores the readiness of state public health systems to respond to emergencies, such as diseases, disasters, and bioterrorism. Focuses on measures such as hospital safety scores, vaccination rates, and water system maintenance, among others. Includes rural considerations throughout.
Author(s): Matt McKillop, Rhea K. Farberman, Dara Alpert Lieberman
Date: 03/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Trust for America's Health
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Small Business Administration: Targeted Outreach about Disaster Assistance Could Benefit Rural Communities
Examines disaster loan trends in rural and urban areas using geocoded Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loan application data for fiscal years 2017 through 2022. Describes challenges rural communities may face in seeking disaster assistance from SBA and actions SBA could take to address these challenges.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 02/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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Examines disaster loan trends in rural and urban areas using geocoded Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster loan application data for fiscal years 2017 through 2022. Describes challenges rural communities may face in seeking disaster assistance from SBA and actions SBA could take to address these challenges.
Additional links: Full Report
Date: 02/2024
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Government Accountability Office
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2023 National Preparedness Report
Summarizes progress made and challenges that remain in building and sustaining capabilities needed to prevent and recover from threats and incidents that pose the greatest risk to the nation. Examines some of the disasters that occurred in 2022 and includes sections on risk areas, capability areas, and focus areas, including fire management, supply chain management, public health and emergency medical services, and long-term vulnerability reduction.
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Summarizes progress made and challenges that remain in building and sustaining capabilities needed to prevent and recover from threats and incidents that pose the greatest risk to the nation. Examines some of the disasters that occurred in 2022 and includes sections on risk areas, capability areas, and focus areas, including fire management, supply chain management, public health and emergency medical services, and long-term vulnerability reduction.
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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2023 National Household Survey on Disaster Preparedness
Results of telephone interviews and web surveys conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from February-March 2023, to assess preparedness actions, attitudes, and motivations in America. Graphic on page 36 shows a rurality preparedness summary, with breakdowns by rural and urban communities.
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Results of telephone interviews and web surveys conducted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from February-March 2023, to assess preparedness actions, attitudes, and motivations in America. Graphic on page 36 shows a rurality preparedness summary, with breakdowns by rural and urban communities.
Date: 12/2023
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Understanding the Importance of Cultural Burning
Podcast in which Margo Robbins, executive director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, explains how the Yurok Tribe of northern California uses cultural burning to promote healthy lands for plants and animals and to provide long-term fire protection for residents. Includes transcript.
Date: 11/2023
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Fire Administration
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Podcast in which Margo Robbins, executive director of the Cultural Fire Management Council, explains how the Yurok Tribe of northern California uses cultural burning to promote healthy lands for plants and animals and to provide long-term fire protection for residents. Includes transcript.
Date: 11/2023
Type: Audio
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Fire Administration
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Last Updated: 10/16/2024