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, including the role of informal interpreters, interpreting in a clinical setting, bilingual healthcare practitioners and working with languages with comparatively small numbers of speakers.
| ISBN: | 9781783097753 |
| Publication date: | 21st April 2017 |
| Author: | Elizabeth A. Jacobs |
| Publisher: | Multilingual Matters an imprint of Channel View Publications Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Genres: |
Doctor/patient relationship Linguistics Migration, immigration and emigration Translation and interpretation Doctor/patient relationship Bilingualism and multilingualism Migration, immigration and emigration Translation and interpretation |