Inter-Agency Collaboration and Hazards Education in American Communities

Autor: Jack D. Kartez, Charles E. Faupel
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Journal of Social Service Research. 22:131-149
ISSN: 1540-7314
0148-8376
DOI: 10.1300/j079v22n01_08
Popis: SUMMARY There is a growing literature on hazards education and its effectiveness in prompting appropriate mitigation, preparedness and response activities on the part of individuals and families. There has been virtually nothing written, however, on what factors tend to account for such hazards education activities in the first place. Factors that may account for varying levels of hazards education activities, such as prior disaster experience, hazards risk, and coordination between emergency management and planning offices, are examined in three separate multiple regression analyses. Generally, we found that (1) the frequency of engaging in oral and written hazards education activities is significantly affected only by the level of preparedness activities on the part of emergency managers that involve some sort of exchange with other city agencies; (2) the frequency of conducting hazards education workshops is affected by the level of inter-agency preparedness efforts (above), the breadth of hazards risk...
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