Spanish-Language Communication of COVID-19 Information Across US Local Health Department Websites.

ABSTRACT: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new urgency to a longstanding problem: the US health system is not well-equipped to accommodate the country's large limited English proficient (LEP) population in times of national emergency. We examined the landscape of Spanish-language COVID-19 website information compared to information in English provided by health departments of the top 10 cities by population in the USA. For each city, coders evaluated three score measures (amount of information, presentation quality, and ease of navigation) for six content types (general information, symptoms, testing, prevention, vaccines, and live statistics) across six delivery modes (print resources, website text, videos, external links, data visualization, and media toolkits). We then calculated a grand average

SUBMITTER: Kusters IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9559270 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature