Among many factors that determine an individual’s access to healthcare, the language of medicine stresses a fundamental distinction between communication and transaction. To access healthcare is to ...

Language access in healthcare is a crucial component in minimising inequities among patient populations with limited proficiency in the dominant language. Extensive research has demonstrated that ...

During the past five years, requests for interpretation by phone that were answered by the city’s Language Line or with an on-site interpreter increased more than five-fold in the Department of ...

The world is becoming increasingly diverse and interconnected. Technology has connected people of varying cultures and backgrounds, often from opposite ends of the globe. However, with more people ...

At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we believe that equal access to health care is very important. One way that we can help people get care is by having free interpreters for our patients if English isn’t ...

James Cech, American Sign Language interpreter at Michigan Medicine, interviews with The Michigan Daily at W.K. Kellogg Eye Center Thursday afternoon. Soyeon Kim/DAILY. Buy this photo. Providing ...