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    SURVIVING THE STORM: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF HURRICANE KATRINA’S EFFECT ON LINGERING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH DISPARITIES
    (2020) DeLoatch, Nicole T.; Rendall, Michael S; Sociology; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    This three-paper dissertation used an intersectional analytical framework to examine disparities in physical health and mental health (respectively) for Hurricane Katrina survivors by race and gender. To do so, health outcomes for New Orleans residents who survived Hurricane Katrina were analyzed. Displaced New Orleans Resident Survey (DNORS) data was used to investigate if natural disasters exacerbate health disparities. In Chapter 2, eight waves of self-reported data from the nationally-representative Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) were used to conduct a sensitivity analysis of self-reported diagnoses. This was done to determine if there are differences by race and sex in the accuracy of self-reports. Chapter 2's analysis indicates that the intersections of race and sex were not associated with reporting variability after accounting for proxy status and class related characteristics. In Chapters 3 and 4, we determine if significant increases to physical and mental health diagnosis vary by race and sex, following Hurricane Katrina. The main finding of Chapter 3 was that Black women were more likely to report negative physical health outcomes than their White or male counterparts, both before and after Hurricane Katrina. Chapter 4's main finding was that Black women were not more likely to report a diagnosis of negative emotional problem and depression post-Katrina when compared to their White or male counterparts. There were increased adverse mental health outcomes across all four race-sex groups.
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    Interagency Babble: Institutional logics and information flow in catastrophic disasters
    (2014) Travis, Diane M.; Jaeger, Paul T.; Library & Information Services; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)
    Recent catastrophic disasters have highlighted the enormous human, economic, and material costs of information flow breakdown. This study explores how significant information flow problems in catastrophic disaster response arise from fundamental, but critical, differences in institutional logics among the collection of organizations that are involved. Documents will be analyzed using qualitative methodology to identify salient features of two of the institutional logics seen in disaster response and develop a framework relating the outcomes of the first responders' actions to the logic employed. This study identified the existing gaps in the publically-available accessible information about previous disaster response efforts and considers how this information can potentially be used to better understand the problems the United States faces in terms of effective disaster response. This study has the potential to inform policy makers and organizations within disaster response in crafting better ways of utilizing information to minimize loss of life and property.