Is language a barrier to the use of preventive services?
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 12 (8), 472-477
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1525-1497.1997.00085.x
Abstract
Objective To isolate the effect of spoken language from financial barriers to care, we examined the relation of language to use of preventive services in a system with universal access.Keywords
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