The information being compiled is to help government better understand resident’s needs a year after Katrina. Funding for this survey project comes from grants from the Centers for Disease Control Foundation and several state health departments.
Erin Bertschy, team leader for the survey project, commented, “What's important to capture is what people are back, what are their health needs, what are their economic indicators, income levels and employment status.”
This is such an important task for the New Orleans and surrounding areas. I will be interested to find out the difference in population between now and before the hurricanes. It seems as if a large chink of the population has resettled in other parts of the country.
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