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Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers: International Perspectives
Elizabeth A. Jacobs
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Description for Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers: International Perspectives
Paperback. Global migration continues to increase, and with it linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent international perspectives on language barriers in health care. Solutions and approaches, as well as the importance of local context, are discussed. Editor(s): Jacobs, Elizabeth A.; Diamond, Lisa. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFDM; CFP; JFFN; MBDP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. .
Global migration continues to increase, and with it comes increasing linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent a range of international perspectives on language barriers in health care. A variety of factors influence the best ways of approaching and overcoming these language barriers, including cultural, geographical, political and practical considerations, and as a result a range of approaches and solutions are suggested and discussed. The authors in this volume discuss a wide range of countries and languages, and cover issues that will be familiar to all healthcare practitioners, ... Read more
Global migration continues to increase, and with it comes increasing linguistic diversity. This presents obvious challenges for both healthcare provider and patient, and the chapters in this volume represent a range of international perspectives on language barriers in health care. A variety of factors influence the best ways of approaching and overcoming these language barriers, including cultural, geographical, political and practical considerations, and as a result a range of approaches and solutions are suggested and discussed. The authors in this volume discuss a wide range of countries and languages, and cover issues that will be familiar to all healthcare practitioners, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783097753
SKU
V9781783097753
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99-15
About Elizabeth A. Jacobs
Elizabeth A. Jacobs is Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences and Associate Vice Chair for Health Services Research at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA. Lisa C. Diamond is Assistant Member/Assistant Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service, New York, USA.
Reviews for Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers: International Perspectives
What comes out of this research is a series of recommendations which are of particular interest. It was concluded that not only should more adequate language support be provided for the local patient demographic, but also that language awareness and an understanding of the concept of bilingualism should be introduced into healthcare education in Wales.
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