在传染病爆发期间,美国人口对英语水平有限的人群的沟通:范围审查
Mary G Findling1, Hannah L Caporello2, Rebekah I Stein3
1Mary G. Findling, PhD, ScM, is Assistant Director, in the Harvard Opinion Research Program, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA.
Health security
|October 27, 2023
概括
对于有限英语水平 (LEP) 的人群来说,有效的紧急沟通至关重要. 存在研究差距,特别是关于文化相关性和社会背景的差距,阻碍了为这些社区制定最佳的公共卫生战略.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 卫生沟通健康沟通
- 健康差异 在健康上的差异
背景情况:
- 在紧急情况下,英语水平有限的人群 (LEP) 面临更糟糕的健康结果.
- 基于证据的风险沟通对于在传染病爆发期间保护LEP社区至关重要.
- 随着COVID-19的流行,这些群体需要改善紧急通讯.
研究的目的:
- 对美国LEP人口的紧急传染病爆发通讯进行现有研究的范围审查.
- 确定所涉及的沟通主题和现有的研究差距.
- 为制定更有效的紧急通讯策略提供信息.
主要方法:
- 根据JBI框架和PRISMA扩展进行范围审查,对6个电子数据库进行系统搜索 (2022年10月).
- 纳入标准:2009-2022年的数据,英语出版物,重点关注紧急传染病爆发和LEP人群.
- 分析了从2,049个已识别的产品中选出的31个产品.
主要成果:
- 证据基础有限,大多数研究专注于西班牙语或COVID-19大流行.
- 许多研究使用了定性或非随机样本.
- 研究主要解决了基本的语言障碍,对文化相关性或社会背景的探索有限.
结论:
- 目前关于LEP人群紧急通讯的研究存在重大局限性.
- 迫切需要进一步的研究,以了解LEP社区的信息景观.
- 未来的研究应该为公共卫生机构的文化相关和上下文意识的沟通策略提供信息.
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