A5004954358- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Disaster Response and Management
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Facility Location and Emergency Management
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
The University of Melbourne
2016-2024
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood
2013-2021
Services Australia
2021
Abstract Affluence and vulnerability are often seen as opposite sides of a coin—with affluence generally understood reducing forms through increased resilience adaptive capacity. However, in the context climate change an increase associated hazards disasters, we suggest need to re-examine this dynamic relationship—a complex association define here Affluence–Vulnerability Interface (AVI). We review research different national contexts show how more nuanced understanding AVI can (a)...
Background Although much is known about psychopathology such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression following bushfire (also wildfire), little prevalence, trajectory impacts for those experiencing general adjustment difficulties exposure to these now-common events. Aims This was an exploratory analysis of a large cohort study that examined the risk factors probable over 10-year period exposure. Method The Beyond Bushfires assessed individuals exposed deadly across three time...
Many studies show that long-term poor mental health outcomes for disaster-affected people are predicted by postdisaster stressors. Despite this finding, existing recovery frameworks vary in how these stressors conceptualised. This paper examines community members' subjective perceptions of what they found problematic and useful their recoveries after the Australian 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, considers them light frameworks. We report findings from responses to semi-structured survey...
Disasters result in a range of impacts that significantly disrupt the health and wellbeing those affected. After disasters, hierarchy affectedness may be explicitly or implicitly developed, where affected are compared to each other, people by disasters other locations. When an individual's sense place is so disrupted, these hierarchies critical improving understanding recovery trajectories, including mental well-being outcomes. These have practical implications influence outcomes affected,...
Purpose The aim of this paper is to highlight key themes and issues relating the recovery phase disaster. Particular emphasis given psychosocial community dimensions lessons identified by for those working in recovery‐related programmes. starts with a review research undertaken as result two Winston Churchill Memorial Trust fellowships, followed discussion meaning application relation emergency management. Design/methodology/approach Both projects shared common seeking understand following...
Introduction: There is growing evidence that disasters may increase the risk of developing chronic diseases, including diabetes, dyslipidemia, kidney disease, and cardiovascular disease. However, how much disaster exposure specifically affects disease unknown. This presentation introduces study protocol for Risk hEalth ConditiOn AdVerse Events after disasteRs (RECOVER) Cohort Study, which addresses this gap. Method: The primary aim RECOVER to determine extent increases (Aim 1). secondary...