HEALTH services accessibilityPERCEIVED discriminationHEALTH facility translating servicesDISCRIMINATION in medical careBackground: Migrants face multiple barriers in using healthcare, with language being a major
Barriers and Disparities in Health Care Everyone should have the opportunity to achieve a healthy life and have comprehensive health care services available to them. To achieve this healthy life‚ people need to have access to the health care system and to a health care provider with whom they...
arXiv:2501.09825v1 [cs.CL] 16 Jan 2025Bridging Language Barriers in Healthcare: A Study on Arabic LLMs.Nada Saadi, Tathagata Raha, Clément Christophe,Marco AF Pimentel, Ronnie Rajan, Praveen K KanithiM42 Health, Abu Dhabi, UAEAbstractThis paper investigates the challenges of developinglargelan...
Language Barriers in Healthcare According to the report, the healthcare and social assistance sectors are more likely than any other industry to have foreign language needs exclusively for the domestic market. Additionally, employers in healthcare are also the most likely of the sectors represe...
Ease the language barrier. In many healthcare systems, language barriers between patients and healthcare providers can hinder effective communication, leading to misunderstandings, misdiagnoses, and inadequate care, causing high-quality medical resources inaccessible for most people. Multilingual medical LLMs...
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 ...
The application of large language models within healthcare encounters barriers stemming from regulatory frameworks that govern AI usage in delicate areas such as diagnostics. Medical professionals must tackle the intricate requirements set by regulations such asGDPRwhen implementing LLMs, particularly when ...
LANGUAGE ACCESS GUIDE How to Build a Better Language Access Program: A Guide for Healthcare Leaders Effective communication is essential in healthcare, yet language barriers AI, Automation, and the Future of Language Services: A Conversation with Dan Nelson ...
Language barriers negatively impact access to HIV-related services and thus result in decreased adherence to antiretroviral therapy, increased unmet healthcare needs, and increased HIV-related stigma. Language facilitators enhanced the connection between AALWH and the healthcare system by facilitating their...
Given the complexity of language barriers spanning from linguisitic proficiency to health literacy to body language and other aspects of communication, it is critical for medical schools to develop curricula through interdisciplinary collaboration with experts in health communication science, linguistics, and...