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Rethinking the Term “Limited English Proficiency” to Improve Language-Appropriate Healthcare for All

The concept of limited English proficiency (LEP) presents significant challenges when applied to the healthcare needs of the diverse and growing multilingual population in the U.S. We expound on the following ways in which the concept of LEP is problematic: the ethnocentric notion of a “primary lang...

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Autores principales: Ortega, Pilar, Shin, Tiffany M., Martínez, Glenn A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8323079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34328602
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-021-01257-w