Post-Incident Recovery Considerations of the Health Care Service Delivery Infrastructure by Theresa Wizemann

Author:Theresa Wizemann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2012-09-07T00:00:00+00:00

LOCAL AND STATE ROLES: THE COMMUNITY AS THE LEAD

The new National Disaster Recovery Framework is helpful because it articulates things that have been needed at the state and local levels for quite some time, said James Craig, director of the Office of Health Protection at the Mississippi State Department of Health. The most effective, efficient, timely response to any disaster is the local response. Therefore, Craig said, the most effective long-term recovery of any community is that which is planned and managed at the local level by the impacted community. This is supported in the NDRF (see Box 2), which stresses that federal, state, or other disaster recovery organizations recognize that communities have the lead role in planning for and managing their recovery. Craig noted, however, that in their efforts to “vigorously support local, state, and tribal governments,” these agencies and organizations can sometimes provide too much help that may not be consistent with the impacted community’s direction.

The NDRF also acknowledges the notion that you cannot, or perhaps should not, always rebuild in exactly the same way as before the disaster. The framework states that successful recovery may involve relocation of some or all of the community’s assets (see Box 2).

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