Building resilience: The relationship between information provided by municipal authorities during emergency situations and community resilience

By O. Cohen, Avishay Goldberg, M. Lahad, L. Aharonson-Daniel. 2017

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Abstract Community resilience denotes a community's capacity to lead itself in order to overcome changes and crises. Leadership is a central element of community resilience. One of the responsibilities of municipal authorities and leadership during emergencies is to provide effective information that meets the population's needs. This cross-sectional study presents the relationship between satisfaction with information provided by the local municipality and community resilience scores measured using the Conjoint Community Resilience Assessment Measure (CCRAM). The study included 1139 adults (mean age 40.7 years) living in small to midsized communities. The CCRAM score was positively correlated with satisfaction with the information received from the municipality (r (1139) = 0.528, p

Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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