Effective evidence-based post disaster recovery interventions

Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, creating an urgent need for effective, evidence-based interventions to assist affected individuals and communities recover. This study describes several such interventions, as well as other research which may provide evidence for emergency managers to inform individual and community level recovery. The research study design is a qualitative review of secondary sources such as peer reviewed journal articles. The sources are evaluated for content related to the research question, what are the most significant factors to the recovery of affected community members’ health and wellness following a disaster? And the sub-research question, what are the most effective recovery interventions that can be deployed post disaster to promote positive recovery outcomes for individuals and communities? The findings are analyzed thematically and include numerous common recovery impacts and common recovery factors, both positive and negative and several post disaster evidence-based recovery interventions that can be deployed at both the individual and community level.