The legacy of the flood of '93 : a working conference on the occupational and environmental health and safety issues, St Louis, Missouri, April 11-13, 1994.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : University of Illinois, 1994Description: viii, 77 pDDC classification:

363.3493 21

Subject: Presents edited remarks from the conference on the flood of 1993 along with summary recommendations made after the event was completed. Major issues of concern which emerged during the conference were recovery from the economic and stress impacts of the flood, intermediate and long term flood recovery efforts, the unpredictability of the physical and organizational work environments of disaster response workers, communication difficulties, application forms used by disaster relief agencies, coordination of efforts if federal agencies are to respond in a timely fashion, evaluations of early intervention efforts, the Farm Partners in Iowa program, a comprehensive approach to farm family problems and appropriate solutions, establishing an infrastructure and disaster response network of state and county social services, efforts to move from the model of tertiary prevention and treatment to more proactive secondary and primary prevention efforts, and the various roles of disaster response personnel

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.3493 LEG (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900064784

PB97-162408

Presents edited remarks from the conference on the flood of 1993 along with summary recommendations made after the event was completed. Major issues of concern which emerged during the conference were recovery from the economic and stress impacts of the flood, intermediate and long term flood recovery efforts, the unpredictability of the physical and organizational work environments of disaster response workers, communication difficulties, application forms used by disaster relief agencies, coordination of efforts if federal agencies are to respond in a timely fashion, evaluations of early intervention efforts, the Farm Partners in Iowa program, a comprehensive approach to farm family problems and appropriate solutions, establishing an infrastructure and disaster response network of state and county social services, efforts to move from the model of tertiary prevention and treatment to more proactive secondary and primary prevention efforts, and the various roles of disaster response personnel

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