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A Web-Based Interactive Map to Promote Health-Care Facility Flood Preparedness

Part of: Floods collection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2021

Elena Grossman ,
Michelle Hathaway ,
Amber Khan Open the ORCID record for Amber Khan [Opens in a new window] ,
Apostolis Sambanis  and
Samuel Dorevitch
Elena Grossman*
Affiliation:
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Michelle Hathaway
Affiliation:
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Amber Khan
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Apostolis Sambanis
Affiliation:
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Samuel Dorevitch
Affiliation:
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
*
Corresponding author: Elena Grossman, Email: egross5@uic.edu.
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Abstract

Objectives:

Little is known about how flood risk of health-care facilities (HCFs) is evaluated by emergency preparedness professionals and HCFs administrators. This study assessed knowledge of emergency preparedness and HCF management professionals regarding locations of floodplains in relation to HCFs. A Web-based interactive map of floodplains and HCF was developed and users of the map were asked to evaluate it.

Methods:

An online survey was completed by administrators of HCFs and public health emergency preparedness professionals in Illinois, before and after an interactive online map of floodplains and HCFs was provided.

Results:

Forty Illinois HCFs located in floodplains were identified, including 12 long-term care facilities. Preparedness professionals have limited knowledge of whether local HCFs were in floodplains, and few reported availability of geographic information system (GIS) resources at baseline. Respondents intended to use the interactive map for planning and stakeholder communications.

Conclusions:

Given that HCFs are located in floodplains, this first assessment of using interactive maps of floodplains and HCFs may promote a shift to reliable data sources of floodplain locations in relation to HCFs. Similar approaches may be useful in other settings.

Keywords

climate changeenvironmental healthfloodspublic health preparedness
Type
Brief Report
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , June 2022 , pp. 895 - 898
Copyright
© Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2021

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