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Martinez, Glenn – Language Policy, 2008
This paper examines the implementation of language-in-healthcare policy in a highly bilingual, medically stressed border region of south Texas. In its current form, federal language-in-healthcare policy unevenly impacts different geographic regions. Healthcare markets along the U.S.-Mexico border are particularly taxed by the recent language…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Patients, Foreign Countries, Limited English Speaking
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Chng, Chwee-Lye; Carlon, Alfonso; Toynes, Brian – College Student Journal, 2006
Students (N = 1,146) from five Historically Black Colleges and Universities in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma participated in this study. Although students report a moderate level of HIV knowledge, they are deficient on three items related to the role of Nonoxynol-9 on HIV transmission, role of prior STD history on HIV transmission, and meaning of…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Medical Services, Gender Differences, Black Colleges