
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>Many Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander adults may face health care access challenges related to limited English proficiency</dc:title>
  <dc:creator>Haley, Jennifer M., author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Zuckerman, Stephen, author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Rao, Nikhil (Of Urban Institute), author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Karpman, Michael, author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:creator>Stern, Alena, author.</dc:creator>
  <dc:subject>Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Communication Barriers</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Health Equity -- economics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Health Policy</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Health Services Accessibility -- statistics &amp; numerical data</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Growing interest in addressing health equity is fueling efforts to better understand the unique challenges faced by Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. A lack of language accessibility for AANHPI people who are not proficient in English, in particular, could restrict their access to health insurance and quality health care, especially for those who may have to navigate complicated systems to enroll in coverage. In this brief, we assess the extent of limited English proficiency (LEP) among AANHPI nonelderly adults and variation in LEP across AANHPI subgroups, using the most recently available reliable data from the American Community Survey (ACS).</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Washington, DC : Urban Institute, December 2022</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Health Policy Center (Urban Institute), issuing body.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, issuing body.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Technical Report</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Illustrations</dc:format>
  <dc:format>1 online resource (1 PDF file (19 pages))</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-9918591682706676-pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>9918591682706676</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918591682706676</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>United States</dc:coverage>
  <dc:rights>Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0</dc:rights>
</oai_dc:dc>
