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March 2021 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 83, Number 7)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
March 2022 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 84, Number 7)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
May 2018 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnMay 2018 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 80, Number 9) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in th...
May 2019 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnMay 2019 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 81, Number 9) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in th...
May 2020 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnMay 2020 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 82, Number 9) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in th...
May 2021 Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 83, Number 9)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
Mitigating the Twin Threats of Climate-Driven Atlantic Hurricanes and COVID-19 Transmission
This article looks at the co-occurrence of the 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season and the COVID-19 pandemic and how together they create a complex dilemma for protecting populations from the intersecting threats. This resource answers the questions ...
Mutual Aid: A Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management
This article provides lessons for a more equitable approach to emergency management. Grassroots mutual aid programs regained prominence when supporting equitable approaches to emergency management during many concurrent disasters in 2020. Disast...
Navigating the Wildfire-Pandemic Interface
This article provides preliminary data that suggests the current challenges around collective action to address wildfire risk may be further exacerbated due to COVID-19, and that the pandemic has potentially widened existing disparities in house...
Nonprofit Capacity to Manage Hurricane-Pandemic Threat
This report examines the professional capacity of nonprofit organizations when responding to disasters occurring simultaneously. This report includes:Service delivery strategies for nonprofits during COVID-19Impact of natural disasters on nonpro...
Nonprofit Response to Concurrent and Consecutive Disaster Events in Puerto Rico
This article examines how nonprofit organizations are prominent stakeholders when working in community-level recovery efforts. It explores the role of nonprofits to facilitate dynamic information flows, fill in critical service delivery gaps lef...
November 2018: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnNovember 2018 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 81, Number 4) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships ...
November 2019: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnNovember 2019 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 82, Number 4) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships ...
November 2020: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnNovember 2020 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 83, Number 4)Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships i...
November 2021: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 84, Number 4)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
October 2018: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnOctober 2018 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 81, Number 3) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships i...
October 2019: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnOctober 2019 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 82, Number 3) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships i...
October 2020: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnOctober 2020 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 83, Number 3) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships i...
October 2021: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 84, Number 3)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
Opinion: Compound Risks and Complex Emergencies Require New Approaches to Preparedness
This article calls for a need to redesign institutions to be proactive, agile, and socially just when confronted with compound risks that have become increasingly likely. This resource includes: Risk reduction framework and funding Pandemic l...
Orchestrating Performance of Healthcare Networks Subjected to the Compound Events of Natural Disasters and Pandemic
This article combines wildfire data with varying courses of the spread of COVID-19 to evaluate the effectiveness of different strategies for managing patient demand. It shows that losing access to medical care is a function of the relative occur...
Potential Impact of Earthquakes During the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic
This article analyzes the potential impact that seismic events may have on the infection rate within regions afflicted by both epidemics and earthquakes. It also explores open software packages that can be employed to simulate the impact of futu...
Reflection of Challenges and Opportunities within the COVID-19 Pandemic to Include Biological Hazards into DRR Planning
This article examines key challenges and opportunities from COVID-19 as highlighted at the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Forum convened by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Regional office...
Responding to Simultaneous Crises: Communications and Social Norms of Mask Behavior During Wildfires and COVID-19
This article looks into the COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires and the health risks that they pose. While there are behaviors that can be implemented to reduce the negative impacts, government agencies and public heal...
September 2018: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnSeptember 2018 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 81, Number 2) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships...
September 2019: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnSeptember 2019 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 82, Number 2) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships...
September 2020: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnSeptember 2020 Journal of Environmental Health (Volume 83, Number 2) Editor's Note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships...
September 2021: Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services
Direct From CDC/Environmental Health Services ColumnJournal of Environmental Health (Volume 84, Number 2)Editor's Note: The National Environmental Health Association strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health ...
Special Section: COVID-19/Public Health Preparedness and Response
This article is a collection of COVID-19 treatises that identify some of the flaws in the American social and economic, health care, and disaster response systems and how they often contribute to national disaster mitigation challenges. This art...
Studying Social Workers' Roles in Natural Disasters During a Global Pandemic
This article shares practice and research recommendations for a social worker relating to therapeutic interactions, social justice, and public health during disasters. Social workers are viewed as a source of reliable information about safety, r...
Supporting Wildfire Response During a Pandemic in the United States
This article reviews the development and application of a COVID-19 Incident Risk Assessment Tool. The tool includes summary of usage statistics, examples of real use on wildfire incidents, and report feedback from users. The tool was used to fil...
Tangible Tabletops and Dual Reality for Crisis Management
This article reviews a study between tangible and tactile interactions. The study consisted of 32 participants remotely displacing robots and exploring a simulated disaster area. This study includes: Difference between two interaction technique...
The COVID-19 Crisis Worsens With the Occurrence of Climate Extremes and Disasters
This article examines the impacts of climate disasters and COVID-19 in Africa and provides suggestions for countries to strengthen their emergency department by boosting the staff component, provide adequate technical support and develop detaile...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Wildfire Smoke
This article identifies the potential for dangerous interactions between COVID-19 and smoke pollution This resource includes: Strategies to manage the combination of public health threats Recommended for environmental and public health officia...
The Impact of Natural Disasters on the Spread of COVID-19
This journal article discusses es how natural disasters and infectious disease disrupts human health and livelihood. It modeled a concurrent disaster scenario on the impact of infection related fatalities. This resource contains information on: ...
The Mental Health Impacts of Successive Disasters
Experiencing a natural disaster at the same time as a global pandemic is associated with negative impacts on mental health. This article studies resiliency at the individual and community levels to understand problematic impacts following a disa...
The United States COVID-19 Pandemic in the Flood Season
This article outlines a tool that assesses the compound risk of COVID-19 at the county level. The article found that the number of flood insurance house claims can proxy the displaced population accurately with more spatiotemporal detail, and th...
When Emergencies and Disasters Collide
This article details the interaction between the responses to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the Magna earthquake in Utah. COVID-19 may have limited injuries or the loss of life during the earthquake, and it also enabled an early activation of t...