Measuring Outcomes in a Community Resilience Program: A New Metric for Evaluating Results at the Household Level

Conclusion This analysis illustrates how to assess disaster resilience at the community level. Using the LACCDR community resilience index, we describe baseline neighborhood measures that can be used to track changes over time. These factor scores supplement qualitative evaluations that have been conducted throughout the course of the intervention. Once follow-up data is collected, we can use this index to investigate the impact of the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience initiative. Corresponding Author David P Eisenman, MD MSHS, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Director – UCLA Center for Public Health and Disasters. deisenman@mednet.ucla.edu Data Availability Statement The data used for this analysis can be accessed via https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3202120.v1 Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - Category: Global & Universal Authors: Source Type: research