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Emergency Management

​Read more about the people and projects that demonstrate NORC's expertise in Emergency Management.

Representative Projects

Development of Planning Guidelines and Recommendations to Address Emergency Preparedness and Response Needs of Seasonal and Migrant Worker Populations.

Rural agricultural communities throughout the country have significant seasonal and migrant populations that typically are not included in population estimates.  Ensuring the health of these groups is clearly in the interest of rural communities as they seek to reduce the spread of infectious diseases and the burden of uncompensated hospital/clinic care. More

Emergency Preparedness Planning: Modeling the Impact of Urban Evacuation on Surrounding and Rural Communities. ​​For the Western New York Public Health Alliance Advanced Practice Center (APC), NORC developed an evacuation modeling tool to predict likely evacuation destinations following emergency scenarios. More

Involvement of State Offices of Rural Health in Emergency Preparedness Activities. In 2002, the federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) released its report on emergency preparedness in rural communities as perceived by directors of state offices of rural health.  More

Rural Health Research and Policy Center. ​The center was funded through the Rural Health Research Center Program in the Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.   More

Understanding the Roles of Rural Hospitals in Responding to Bioterrorist Attacks and Other Emergencies. The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of rural Emergency Room (ER) capacity and the nature of constraints in expanding capacity in response to demand surge caused by emergencies, including acts of terrorism or bioterrorism. More

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