Perspectives on Latino lay health promoter programs: Maryland, 2009.

Objectives: We examined common barriers and best practices in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of Latino lay health promoter programs.

Methods: Ten lay health promoter program coordinators serving Maryland Latinos were recruited in 2009 through snowball sampling for in-depth semistructured interviews with a bilingual and bicultural researcher. Program coordinators were asked about recruitment, selection, training, and supervision; key program elements; and evaluation.

Emergency preparedness: knowledge and perceptions of Latin American immigrants.

This paper describes the level of public emergency knowledge and perceptions of risks among Latin American immigrants, and their preferred and actual sources of emergency preparedness information (including warning signals). Five Latino community member focus groups, and one focus group of community health workers, were conducted in a suburban county of Washington D.C.