Medical interpreters and bilingual school staff: Potential disaster information conduits?

Objectives: Dissemination of trusted disaster information to limited English proficient (LEP) communities may mitigate the negative effects these higher risk communities experience in disasters. For immigrant communities, disaster messages may be perceived with skepticism, and fear of public officials may affect compliance with disaster messages. This study explores whether medical interpreters (MIs) and bilingual school staff (BSS) are already informal information sources for LEP communities, and could their connection to both public service organizations and LEP communities make them ideal efficient, trusted disaster information conduits for LEP communities.

Youth tobacco sales in a metropolitan county: factors associated with compliance.

Objective: To describe and identify factors associated with tobacco sales in a metropolitan county.

Setting: King County, Washington is the largest county in Washington State with an estimated population of 1.8 million or about 30% of the state's population.