How Should Clinicians Respond to Language Barriers That Exacerbate Health Inequity?
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چکیده
Patients and families with limited English proficiency (LEP) face barriers to health care service access, experience lower quality care, suffer worse outcomes. LEP is an independent driver of disparities exacerbates other social determinants health. Disparities due language are particularly unjust because morally irrelevant a source unfair, unnecessary disadvantage. Clinicians organizations have duties intervene, which this article describes.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: AMA journal of ethics
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2376-6980']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/amajethics.2021.109