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First Nations Disaster Management Plans for COVID-19

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Funder

    APPRISE

  • Principal Investigator

    Adrian Miller

  • Research Location

    Australia

  • Lead Research Institution

    Central Queensland University

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Policies for public health, disease control & community resilience

  • Research Subcategory

    9

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Minority communities unspecified

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

First Nations Disaster Management Plans for COVID-19ObjectivesGain access into Indigenous local government and shires disaster management plans to assess alignment with current national and state plans for pandemic influenza and strategies to control COVID-19Provide recommendations and feedback to Indigenous local government and shires using a First Nations community panel model on ways to improve alignment or to adapt existing strategies to national and state pandemic and COVID-19 plansProvide health promotion and health literacy information about ways to control COVID-19 that can be locally developed that links to the social, cultural and economic conditions of rural and remote First Nations communities for disaster managements plansEvaluate feasibility and effectiveness of implementing disaster managements plans in rural and remote Indigenous local government and shires in controlling COVID-19