Before, Now, and After: Assessing Hurricane Katrina Relief

Environmental Lead after Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina. Public health response--assessing needs.

Mental illness and suicidality after Hurricane Katrina.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the impact of Hurricane Katrina on mental illness and suicidality by comparing results of a post-Katrina survey with those of an earlier survey. METHODS The National Comorbidity Survey-Replication, conducted between February 2001 and February 2003, interviewed 826 adults in the Census Divisions later affected by Hurricane Katrina. The post-Katrina survey interviewed a ne...

Community College Re-enrollment after Hurricane Katrina.

In this study, we explored predictors of community college re-enrollment after Hurricane Katrina among a sample of low-income women (N = 221). It was predicted that participants' pre-hurricane educational optimism would predict community college re-enrollment a year after the hurricane. The influence of various demographic and additional resources (e.g., social support, childcare, hours of empl...

Approaches to Authority in Online Disaster Relief Communities after Hurricane Katrina

The Internet is widely valued for distributing control over information to a lateral network of individuals, but it is not clear how these networks can most effectively organize themselves. This chapter presents a descriptive study of distributed networks of volunteers that emerged online following Hurricane Katrina. Online communities responded to the disaster by facilitating the distribution ...