Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers : : International Perspectives / / ed. by Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Lisa C. Diamond.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Boilard, Alexandra,; Brisset, Camille,; Canfield, Dana,; Diamond, Lisa C.,; Dowell, Anthony,; Gany, Francesca,; González, C. Javier,; Gray, Ben,; Hilder, Jo,; Horvat, Lidia,; Hsieh, Elaine,; Irvine, Fiona,; Jacobs, Elizabeth A.,; Karliner, Leah S.,; Leanza, Yvan,; Macdonald, Lindsay,; Partridge, Martin,; Pelto, Debra J.,; Rhodes, Mary,; Roberts, Gwerfyl,; Rocque, Rhéa,; Schouten, Barbara,; Schutzman, E. Zoe,; Schwei, Rebecca,; Squires, Allison,; Stubbe, Maria,; Tester, Rachel,; Yeung, Echo,
• HerausgeberIn: Diamond, Lisa C.,; Jacobs, Elizabeth A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1.The Drivers of Demand for Language Services in Health Care -- 2.Three Critical Steps to Enhance Delivery of Language Services in Health Care -- 3.Conceptualizing Bilingual Health Communication: A Theory-based Approach to Interpreter-mediated Medical Encounters -- 4.Challenges to and Recommendations for Working with a Community Interpreter in Mental Health: A Canadian Perspective -- 5.Toward a Theoretical Framework of Informal Interpreting in Health Care: Explaining the Effects of Role Confl ict on Control, Power and Trust in Interpreter-mediated Encounters -- 6.Understanding the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Diversity of Approaches to Overcoming Language Barriers in Medical Encounters -- 7.Language Concordance Between Limited English Proficient Patients and Their Clinicians -- 8.Breaking the Silence: Identifying the Needs of Bilingual Speakers in Health Care -- 9.Engaging the Community to Develop Solutions for Languages of Lesser Diffusion -- 10.Chinese Voices: Improving Access to Health Care -- 11.A New Zealand Perspective on Providing Health Care for Patients with Limited English Proficiency -- 12.Toward a New Approach for Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Health Care: A Case Study of Developments in Victoria, Australia -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Index