| Other Resources
Click on the links below to access other resources related to language issues and health care delivery.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Healthcare Disparities (Report)
This report tracks disparities in both quality of and access to health care in the United States for both the general population and for AHRQ's congressionally designated priority populations.
American Public Health Association: Eliminating Health Disparities
This database contains projects and interventions that have been submitted by members of the public health community since 2003.
California Pan - Ethnic Health Network's Multicultural Health Web Portal
This program works to ensure access to quality health care for people from all cultural and ethnic backgrounds by advocating for policies and resources that address the health needs of diverse communities.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
CCHCP addresses broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities nationwide.
Diversity RX
This program, produced by Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care and Drexel University School of Public Health's Center for Health Equality, seeks to improve the patient-provider relationship by addressing linguistic issues and by promoting best practices, among other activities.
Federal Government LEP Policy Guidance
This site acts as a clearinghouse providing resources for federal agencies, recipients of federal funds, users of federal programs and federally assisted programs, and other stakeholders.
Hablamos Juntos
This project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, seeks to improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.
Health Research and Educational Trust Toolkits to Reduce Disparities
HRET provides resources to hospitals, health systems, clinics and health plans for collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.
Implementing a National Voluntary Consensus Standard for Informed Consent, National Quality Forum
Nearly half of all American adults have limited health literacy, which restricts their capacity to understand the basic health information and needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Institute of Medicine 'Unequal Treatment'
This report outlines the research that demonstrated significant variation in the rates of medical procedures by race, even when insurance status, income, age, and severity of conditions are comparable.
International Medical Interpreting Association
IMIA is the oldest and largest medical interpreter association in the country committed to the advancement of professional medical interpreters as the best practice to equitable language access to health care for linguistically diverse patients.
Language barriers to health care in the United States, N Eng J Med. 2006; 355;3:229-231.
In this article, Dr. Glenn Flores describes the negative effects including that patients who face such barriers are less likely than others to have a usual source of medical care and they receive preventive services at reduced rates.
National Code of Ethics for Interpreters In Health Care
This document identifies the steps that should take in order to standardize the expectations that the health care industry and patients should have of interpreters and to raise the quality of health care interpreting
National Council on Interpreting in Health Care
NCIHC is a multidisciplinary organization based in the United States whose mission is to promote culturally competent professional health care interpreting as a means to support equal access to health care for individuals with limited English proficiency.
National Health Law Program
NHeLP focuses efforts on justice in health care for low-income people, minorities, the elderly, and people with disabilities. NHeLP's has expertise in Medicaid, children's health, reproductive health, language access to health care, and racial disparities in care.
National Standards of Practice for Interpreters in Health Care
NCIHC has published the standards of practice for interpreters in health acre, the first such standards for medical interpreting professionals in the United States
National Center for Cultural Competence
NCCC seeks to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.
National Cultural and Linguistic Services Standards
CLAS standards are directed at health care organizations that want to make their practices and organizations more linguistically accessible.
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