ReviewJournal of immigrant and minority health2017
Conceptualizing the Pathways and Processes Between Language Barriers and Health Disparities: Review, Synthesis, and Extension.
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- Patient-Provider Communication and Health Disparities: An Experiment Exploring Language Proficiency and Communication Accommodation.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Enhancing Patient-Physician Communication: Simulating African American Vernacular English in Medical Diagnostics with Large Language Models.Journal of healthcare informatics research · 2025Article
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- Systematic meta-review on migrant healthcare access: Language barriers and the role of translation.Journal of migration and health · 2025Article
- Assessment of disparities in timely diagnosis and comprehensive workup of cognitive impairment between English and Spanish speakers.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Effects of Mind-Body Qigong Exercise on Overall Health, Fatigue/Sleep, and Cognition in Older Chinese Immigrants in the US: An Intervention Study with Control.Journal of aging research · 2024Article
- Oppression and internalized oppression as an emerging theme in accessing healthcare: findings from a qualitative study assessing first-language related barriers among the Kurds in Turkey.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Improving Patient Experience Scores Using Simultaneous Interpretation on Family-Centered Rounds.Hospital pediatrics · 2022Article
- International migration and its influence on health.Research in nursing & health · 2022Article
- Language Barriers in Patients With Cardiovascular Disease: A Mixed Methods Study.JACC. Advances · 2022Article
- Including migrant oncology patients in research: A multisite pilot randomised controlled trial testing consultation audio-recordings and question prompt lists.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- Rural Easy Japanese as a Method of Mitigating Language Barriers Among Foreigners Seeking Medical Care in Rural Japan.Cureus · 2022Article
- Medicaid Redetermination and Renewal Experiences of Limited English Proficient Beneficiaries in Illinois.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
- Disparities in Reporting a History of Cardiovascular Disease Among Adults With Limited English Proficiency and Angina.JAMA network open · 2021Observational
- Barriers to the use of trained interpreters in consultations with refugees in four resettlement countries: a qualitative analysis using normalisation process theory.BMC family practice · 2020Article
- Language-Related Disparities in Pain Management in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit for Children Undergoing Laparoscopic Appendectomy.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Ad hoc interpreters in South African psychiatric services: service provider perspectives.Global health action · 2020Article
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Abstract
While many may view language barriers in healthcare settings (LBHS) as a simple, practical problem, they present unique challenges to theoretical development and practice implications in healthcare delivery, especially when one considers the implications and impacts of specific contextual factors. By exploring the differences of contextual factors in the US and Japan, this review explores and highlights how such differences may entail different impacts on patients' quality of care and require different solutions. I conduct narrative review through library database, Google Scholar, and CiNii (a Japanese library database) with multiple search terms, including language barriers, healthcare, medical interpreter, and immigrant. I first present a diagram to show the pathways and process between language barriers and health disparities, using the literature reported in the US. Then, I examined the literature reported in Japan and discuss the needs for re-conceptualizing LBHS. The implications for future research will be discussed.
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