Health care quality perceptions among foreign-born latinos and the importance of speaking the same language

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 745-752

  González, Hector M ^a,b   Vega, William A ^c   Tarraf, Wassim ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross Cultural issues; Hispanics; Language; Latinos; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFUSION; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; SELF REPORT; SPEECH; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 78649901085     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2010.06.090264     Document Type: Article

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