scholarly journals Addressing the Social Vulnerability of Mississippi Gulf Coast Vietnamese Community through the Development of Community Health Advisors

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3892
Author(s):  
Susan Mayfield-Johnson ◽  
Danielle Fastring ◽  
Daniel Le ◽  
Jane Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Events ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
War Trauma ◽  
Competency Assessment ◽  
Vietnamese Community ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities ◽  
Mississippi Gulf Coast ◽  
Community Health Advisor

Background: Resiliency is the ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to stressors from adverse events. Social vulnerabilities (limited access to resources, political power, and representation; lack of social capital; aspects of the built environment; health inequities; and being in certain demographic categories) can impact resiliency. The Vietnamese population living along the Mississippi Gulf Coast is a community that has unique social vulnerabilities that impact their ability to be resilient to adverse events. Objectives: The purpose of this project was to address social vulnerability by implementing and evaluating a volunteer Community Health Advisor (CHA) project to enhance community resiliency in this community. Methods: A program implemented over eight three-hour sessions was adapted from the Community Health Advisor Network curriculum that focused on healthy eating, preventing chronic conditions (hyperlipidemia, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, and poor mental health). Topics also included leadership and capacity development skills. Results: Participants (n = 22) ranged from 35 to 84 years of age. Most were female (63.6%), married (45.5%), unemployed (63.6%), had annual incomes of <$10,000, and had high school diplomas (68.2%). Community concerns were crime (50.0%), volunteerism (40.0%), language barriers (35.0%), and food insecurity (30.0%). Approximately 75% had experienced war trauma and/or refugee camps, and 10% had experienced domestic violence. Scores on the Community Health Advisor Core Competency Assessment increased from pre-test to post-test (t = −5.962, df = 11, p < 0.0001), as did SF-8 scores (t = 5.759, df = 17, p < 0.0001). Conclusions: Strategies to reduce vulnerabilities in the Vietnamese community should include developing interventions that address health risks and strengths and focus on root causes of vulnerability.

scholarly journals Social Vulnerability across the Great Lakes Basin: A County-Level Comparative and Spatial Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7274
Author(s):  
Joshua T. Fergen ◽  
Ryan D. Bergstrom
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Social Vulnerability Index ◽  
Great Lakes Basin ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Social vulnerability refers to how social positions affect the ability to access resources during a disaster or disturbance, but there is limited empirical examination of its spatial patterns in the Great Lakes Basin (GLB) region of North America. In this study, we map four themes of social vulnerability for the GLB by using the Center for Disease Control’s Social Vulnerability Index (CDC SVI) for every county in the basin and compare mean scores for each sub-basin to assess inter-basin differences. Additionally, we map LISA results to identify clusters of high and low social vulnerability along with the outliers across the region. Results show the spatial patterns depend on the social vulnerability theme selected, with some overlapping clusters of high vulnerability existing in Northern and Central Michigan, and clusters of low vulnerability in Eastern Wisconsin along with outliers across the basins. Differences in these patterns also indicate the existence of an urban–rural dimension to the variance in social vulnerabilities measured in this study. Understanding regional patterns of social vulnerability help identify the most vulnerable people, and this paper presents a framework for policymakers and researchers to address the unique social vulnerabilities across heterogeneous regions.

scholarly journals Diffusion of cancer education information through a Latino community health advisor program

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 135-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana M. Navarro ◽  
Rema Raman ◽  
Lori J. McNicholas ◽  
Oralia Loza
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Cancer Education ◽  
Latino Community ◽  
Community Health Advisor

scholarly journals From Disaster to Resilience

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Perkes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Community Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Mississippi State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Mississippi Gulf Coast

What is changing in the world so that the word “resilience” is so frequently used? 2015 marks the ten year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the five year anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio has been working on the Mississippi Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina and their work provides the vantage point of this paper. The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio is an off-campus research and service center of Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art and Design located in Biloxi, Mississippi. It was created to respond to Hurricane Katrina and has evolved from disaster response to long-term efforts of resilience. The design studio’s evolution is not an isolated story. It is part of a national move toward resilience.

Social Vulnerability and Premature Cardiovascular Mortality Among US Counties, 2014 to 2018

Circulation ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 144 (16) ◽  
pp. 1272-1279
Author(s):  
Safi U. Khan ◽  
Zulqarnain Javed ◽  
Ahmad N. Lone ◽  
Sourbha S. Dani ◽  
Zahir Amin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Ischemic Heart Disease ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Ischemic Heart ◽  
Relative Risks ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Us Counties ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities ◽  
Cvd Mortality

Background: Substantial differences exist between United States counties with regards to premature (<65 years of age) cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Whether underlying social vulnerabilities of counties influence premature CVD mortality is uncertain. Methods: In this cross-sectional study (2014–2018), we linked county-level CDC/ATSDR SVI (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Social Vulnerability Index) data with county-level CDC WONDER (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiological Research) mortality data. We calculated scores for overall SVI and its 4 subcomponents (ie, socioeconomic status; household composition and disability; minority status and language; and housing type and transportation) using 15 social attributes. Scores were presented as percentile rankings by county, further classified as quartiles on the basis of their distribution among all US counties (1st [least vulnerable] = 0 to 0.25; 4th [most vulnerable = 0.75 to 1.00]). We grouped age-adjusted mortality rates per 100 000 person-years for overall CVD and its subtypes (ischemic heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and heart failure) for nonelderly (<65 years of age) adults across SVI quartiles. Results: Overall, the age-adjusted CVD mortality rate per 100 000 person-years was 47.0 (ischemic heart disease, 28.3; stroke, 7.9; hypertension, 8.4; and heart failure, 2.4). The largest concentration of counties with more social vulnerabilities and CVD mortality were clustered across the southwestern and southeastern parts of the United States. The age-adjusted CVD mortality rates increased in a stepwise manner from 1st to 4th SVI quartiles. Counties in the 4th SVI quartile had significantly higher mortality for CVD (rate ratio, 1.84 [95% CI, 1.43–2.36]), ischemic heart disease (1.52 [1.09–2.13]), stroke (2.03 [1.12–3.70]), hypertension (2.71 [1.54–4.75]), and heart failure (3.38 [1.32–8.61]) than those in the 1st SVI quartile. The relative risks varied considerably by demographic characteristics. For example, among all ethnicities/races, non-Hispanic Black adults in the 4th SVI quartile versus the 1st SVI quartile exclusively had significantly higher relative risks of stroke (1.65 [1.07–2.54]) and heart failure (2.42 [1.29–4.55]) mortality. Rural counties with more social vulnerabilities had 2- to 5-fold higher mortality attributable to CVD and subtypes. Conclusions: In this analysis, US counties with more social vulnerabilities had higher premature CVD mortality, varied by demographic characteristics and rurality. Focused public health interventions should address the socioeconomic disparities faced by underserved communities to curb the growing burden of premature CVD.

Status, Distribution, and Habitat Use of Coastal Waterbirds along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, USA

Waterbirds ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail J. Darrah ◽  
Timothy D. Meehan ◽  
Nicole L. Michel
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Use ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
Mississippi Gulf Coast

scholarly journals Effectiveness of community health agents' actions in situations of social vulnerability

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. S. Zanchetta ◽  
S. McCrae Vander Voet ◽  
W. Galhego-Garcia ◽  
V. M. N. Smolentzov ◽  
Y. Talbot ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Social Vulnerability

scholarly journals Multiple Social Vulnerabilities to Health Disparities and Hypertension and Death in the REGARDS Study

Hypertension ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan B. King ◽  
Laura C. Pinheiro ◽  
Joanna Bryan Ringel ◽  
Adam P. Bress ◽  
Daichi Shimbo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relative Risk ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Risk Ratio ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Economic Education ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Relative Risk Ratio ◽  
Adjusted Relative Risk ◽  
Regards Study ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

Social vulnerabilities increase the risk of developing hypertension and lower life expectancy, but the effect of an individual’s overall vulnerability burden is unknown. Our objective was to determine the association of social vulnerability count and the risk of developing hypertension or dying over 10 years and whether these associations vary by race. We used the REGARDS study (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) and included participants without baseline hypertension. The primary exposure was the count of social vulnerabilities defined across economic, education, health and health care, neighborhood and built environment, and social and community context domains. Among 5425 participants of mean age 64±10 SD years of which 24% were Black participants, 1468 (31%) had 1 vulnerability and 717 (15%) had ≥2 vulnerabilities. Compared with participants without vulnerabilities, the adjusted relative risk ratio for developing hypertension was 1.16 (95% CI, 0.99–1.36) and 1.49 (95% CI, 1.20–1.85) for individuals with 1 and ≥2 vulnerabilities, respectively. The adjusted relative risk ratio for death was 1.55 (95% CI, 1.24–1.93) and 2.30 (95% CI, 1.75–3.04) for individuals with 1 and ≥2 vulnerabilities, respectively. A greater proportion of Black participants developed hypertension and died than did White participants (hypertension, 38% versus 31%; death, 25% versus 20%). The vulnerability count association was strongest in White participants ( P value for vulnerability count×race interaction: hypertension=0.046, death=0.015). Overall, a greater number of socially determined vulnerabilities was associated with progressively higher risk of developing hypertension, and an even higher risk of dying over 10 years.

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