Profession
Medical association awarded grant to study language access
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Feb. 20, 2006
The California Endowment, a private health foundation established to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved Californians, awarded the California Medical Assn. a $167,174 grant to study what physicians think about language access for limited English speaking patients.
In its grant proposal, the CMA said it would measure physicians' awareness of language access issues, their policy preferences and their willingness to change. To capture the physician perspective, the study will survey doctors before and after they participate in a physician session on language access.
The CMA said the findings would play a critical role in ensuring that future language access programs and policies are designed to work well for limited-English patients and their physicians.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2006/02/20/prbf0220.htm.