Health Care : Current Reviews

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Medical Oncology, Cancer Screening Project MD Anderson Cancer Center Cooper, USA

Publications

• Short Communication   
  Cancer Early Detection: Reaching Out to the Underserved NICE (National Indio Cooperative Enterprises, Inc.) Community
  Author(s): Sharon K. Byrne and Yogini Patel
  
  The U.S. healthcare system faces many challenges in providing health care access and quality care to the Asian Indio population within its borders. Immigration has increased the number of foreign-born Asian Indians living in the United States.  Particular to cancer, literature notes an association between foreign birth and native language spoken at home to a lower rate of cancer screening in Asian Americans. While the national language of Hindi is spoken by over 40 % of the population, immigrants also speak Gujarati and Punjabi and need a translator if not seeing a healthcare provider of the same ethnic background.  .. View more»
  

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