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Hurricane Katrina evacuees had deep distrust of public health authorities
05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!While investigating the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans evacuees, a group of UCLA researchers stumbled across something they had not been looking for -- the deep level of distrust the largely minority victims felt toward public health authorities. In a study appearing in the May issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, the researchers write that this distrust likely played a role in residents' response to evacuation warnings and advice.
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