One in seven people in the US speak Spanish at home, and twenty-five million people in the US have limited English proficiency. Using nationally representative data from the Medical Expenditure Panel ...

The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the innumerable ways our health care system can rise to the challenge—and also how we fall short in caring for our most vulnerable patients. In March 2020, as ...

University of Iowa professor Kristine Muñoz received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund a website that offers health narratives in both English and Spanish. Muñoz, who is a ...

WINONA, Minn. — When Nayeli Badillo became pregnant 14 years ago, she sought out prenatal care. She found her doctor's visits came with a big hurdle: a language barrier. "We didn't know that there ...

When the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 hit Chicago, people with poor literacy were much more likely to transmit the disease and die. Decades later, during the H1N1 swine flu outbreak, Chinese people ...