Adults With Language Barriers

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I chose adults with languages barriers. I’m living in El Paso, Texas, where close the border New Mexico, Arizona, Mexico, too. So there are so many people who have language barriers, especially Spanish. This information is from my windshield assessment, as well as I can see anywhere the people, who cannot speak English also, they needed help to translate. If they have language barriers, there is limited access to health care.
Including the risk for premature death and limited number of common chronic diseases in health care it is associated with a wide range of harmful consequences for health. Independently, few studies despite previous studies documented association between the one or more health conditions (that is, co-morbidities) explained

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