Disaster Med Public Health Prep
December 2016
Objective: Local health departments (LHDs) have little guidance for operationalizing community resilience (CR). We explored how community coalitions responded to 4 CR levers (education, engagement, partnerships, and community self-sufficiency) during the first planning year of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) Project.
Methods: Sixteen communities were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental CR group or the control preparedness group.