TY - JOUR
T1 - Language and Health (In)Equity in US Latinx Communities
AU - Berger, Zackary
AU - Peled, Yael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/4/1
Y1 - 2022/4/1
N2 - Language is a social determinant of health, no less so in the case of Latinx persons, who make up the second largest ethnic group in the United States. In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms. This article characterizes this conception of language as administrative logic, which is in sharp contrast to language conceived as a richly complex, heterogeneous, communally lived human experience. This article emphasizes the importance of system-level language awareness and epistemic humility for promoting equity, as well as the need to avoid too-narrow focus on linguistic assessment.
AB - Language is a social determinant of health, no less so in the case of Latinx persons, who make up the second largest ethnic group in the United States. In US health care, language and linguistic difference are often conceived in discrete, instrumental, and monolithic terms. This article characterizes this conception of language as administrative logic, which is in sharp contrast to language conceived as a richly complex, heterogeneous, communally lived human experience. This article emphasizes the importance of system-level language awareness and epistemic humility for promoting equity, as well as the need to avoid too-narrow focus on linguistic assessment.
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U2 - 10.1001/amajethics.2022.313
DO - 10.1001/amajethics.2022.313
M3 - Article
C2 - 35405058
AN - SCOPUS:85129301624
SN - 2376-6980
VL - 24
SP - 313
EP - 318
JO - AMA Journal of Ethics
JF - AMA Journal of Ethics
IS - 4
ER -