Improving health outcomes for linguistically diverse patients

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 204, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 209-210

  Phillips, Christine B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; SPEECH; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; HEALTH LITERACY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84981555673     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja16.00009     Document Type: Editorial

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