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Latino Parents Less Likely to Have Satisfactory Experience at the Doctors’ Offices

February 28, 2017

Alex Ortega, PhD, MPH, professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health, was quoted in a Feb. 27 Side Effects story on the difficulties that parents who speak mostly Spanish have when bringing their child to the doctor. Ortega conducted a study on that subject that found parents who only spoke Spanish were 70 percent less likely to speak with a doctor over the phone or email.

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