Improving health outcomes for linguistically diverse patients

Christine B. Phillips

doi:10.5694/mja16.00009

Improving health outcomes for linguistically diverse patients

Christine B. Phillips^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Every day, most Australian clinicians treat patients whose first language is not English. Nearly four million Australians speak 350 non-English languages, and 17% rate their spoken English as poor.¹To date, there has been little large scale Australian research into the health impacts of not speaking the country’s dominant language.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	209-210
Number of pages	2
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	204
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja16.00009
Publication status	Published - 4 Apr 2016

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