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| When a health care professional and a patient don’t share the same language, medical treatment can be compromised not to mention frustrating. The Hispanic population in Indiana has grown 117 percent to 214,000 between 1990 and 2000 and has more than tripled in Marion County during that period. In response to the challenge of Hispanic-speaking diabetic patients alone, the Wishard Hospital Community Health Centers, Wishard Hispanic Health Project and the IU Diabetes Research and Training Center, all part of the IU School of Medicine on the Indianapolis campus, have developed a computer-based project to help alleviate the language barrier. Financed by a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant of $492,000, the touch-screen computer program will be able to translate basic health questions and answers from English to Spanish and vice versa.
http://www.medicine.indiana.edu/news_releases/archive_02/latino_diab02.html | |
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