Intergovernmental Community Resilience Team: Difference between revisions
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Most factors causing disproportionalities in disaster outcomes are upstream of disaster preparedness and response work. Racism, ableism, and classism could serve as broad terms that begin to point to the disparities resulting in populations becoming marginalized during and after a disaster in the first place. | Most factors causing disproportionalities in disaster outcomes are upstream of disaster preparedness and response work. Racism, ableism, and classism could serve as broad terms that begin to point to the disparities resulting in populations becoming marginalized during and after a disaster in the first place. | ||
Those upstream factors are beyond the scope of this report. Nonetheless, those factors should always shape how government responds in a disaster. That notion is in line with guidance from the Oregon Health Authority concerning the promotion of health equity. Their guidance states: | |||
''Oregon will have established a health system that creates health equity when all people can reach their full health potential and well-being and are not disadvantaged by their race, ethnicity, language, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, social class, intersections among these communities or identities, or other socially determined circumstances.'' | |||
----[i] ''New numbers show COVID-19 damage to communities of color; leaders call for better data collection.'' (2020, May 1). Multnomah County. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.multco.us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/news/new-numbers-show-covid-19-damage-communities-color-leaders-call</nowiki> | ----[i] ''New numbers show COVID-19 damage to communities of color; leaders call for better data collection.'' (2020, May 1). Multnomah County. Retrieved June 1, 2022, from <nowiki>https://www.multco.us/novel-coronavirus-covid-19/news/new-numbers-show-covid-19-damage-communities-color-leaders-call</nowiki> | ||
