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Latinos face digital divide in health care

  • Written by Mariaelena Gonzalez, Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California, Merced
imageDoctors are turning to digital devices for medical records, but Latinos lag in use of portals to access them.From www.shutterstock.com

When considering Latinos, educators often struggle with how to close the achievement gap. That gap is often defined as a disparity in academic success between native English speakers and those for whom Spanish was...

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