Languages Spoken by Patients and Hospital-Based Providers in California

There are also patient encounter-to-provider license ratios for each language by county. The patient encounter to provider license ratio can serve as an indicator for patient demand or need for services from a provider in a specific language.

Smaller ratios indicate fewer patient encounters per provider license and less demand. Larger ratios of patient encounters per provider license indicate greater need for services in that language. This analysis features 45 languages that overlap between the patient-level data and health workforce data.