Download or read book International Comparisons An Overview of Access to Health Services for Language Minority Communities in Canada Spain Belgium and Finland November 2007 written by Canada. Department of Health and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Comparisons an Overview of Access to Health Services for Language Minority Communities in Canada Spain Belgium and Finland written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Health Care for the Official Language Minority Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study begins with a summary of expert legal opinion on the constitutional and legal bases of health care in official language minority communities. It then presents a brief overview of the situation including current initiatives in the areas of networking, primary care, training, research and new technologies. Finally, it addresses the question of access to health care for linguistic minorities within the broader debate on the future of Canada's health system.
Download or read book Ethnicity Health and Health Care written by Waqar Ahmad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the implications of national andinternational social, political, and economic realities for healthand health care provision to minority ethnic groups. Addresses continuity and change in debates on ethnicity,health, and health care Considers the implications of national and internationalsocial, political, and economic realities for health and healthcare provision to minority ethnic groups Represents the experiences of settled and new minority ethnicgroups, refugees, and asylum seekers across the world Includes international comparisons between Caribbean migrantsto the US and UK, the provision of interpreters in general practiceand the variations in uptake of disability living allowance acrossethnic groups
Download or read book Inequalities in Health Care for Migrants and Ethnic Minorities written by David Ingleby and published by Maklu. This book was released on 2012 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 examines how much is known about migrant and ethnic minority health and where the barriers to scientific progress lie. Vol. 2 is concerned with the changes that are needed to improve the matching of health services to the needs of these groups.
Download or read book Access to health care for the official language minority communities written by Canada. Parlement. Chambre des communes. Comité permanent des langues officielles and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Accessibility and Active Offer written by Marie Drolet and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines language issues within the active offer of health and social services in francophone and anglophone minority communities. Action based, it will help shape the leaders of tomorrow.
Download or read book Caring for Migrant and Minority Patients in European Hospitals written by Alexander Bischoff and published by SFM. This book was released on 2006 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social changes in European societies place migration and cultural diversity on the European political agenda. The European initiative Migrant Friendly Hospitals (MFH) aims to identify, develop and evaluate models of effective interventions. It has the following objectives: To strengthen the role of hospitals in promoting the health of migrants and ethnic minorities in the European Union and to improve hospital services for these groups. This report reviews models of effective intervention in the medical literature and provides the background information needed to enable partner hospitals taking part in the MFH initiative to select and implement suitable interventions. The interventions reviewed in this study are grouped in four areas: Communication, Responsiveness Empowerment of migrant and minority patients and communities. Monitoring of the health of migrants and minorities and the health care they receive. [Ed.]
Download or read book Accessibility and Active Offer written by Jacinthe Savard and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume examines language issues within the active offer of health and social services in francophone and anglophone minority communities. Action based, it will help shape the leaders of tomorrow.
Download or read book Access to Health Care Services and Self perceived Health of Canada s Official language Minorities written by Isabelle Gagnon-Arpin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official-language minorities in Canada may face specific issues in accessing health care services that can lead to negative consequences on their health, utilization of health care services and satisfaction with the health care system. A secondary data analysis of the 2006 Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities revealed significant differences between the Anglophone minority (n=5,161) and the Francophone minority (n=12,029) with regards to general health, and access to and use of health care services. Important predictors of these outcomes included age, education level, household income, marital status and place of residence (urban/rural). Access to health care services in the minority language was associated with self-perceived health in the Anglophone minority only. Health policy recommendations elaborated in light of the findings include working on both the supply and the demand of health care services offered in the two official languages, while taking into consideration important contextual differences between regions.
Download or read book Access to Health Care for the Official Language Minority Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migrants and Health written by Christiane Falge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating newcomers and minorities into the social fabric of receiving countries has become one of the crucial challenges of contemporary Western societies. This volume seeks to understand patterns of changing institutional practices and public policies where the challenges of including cultural diversity into the social fabric are most pronounced: namely the health care system. In recent years, pro-migrant organizations and anti-racist activists have repeatedly voiced and politicized demands to improve migrants' access to the health-care system giving rise to a lively debate about migrants' access to health-care and responsiveness of institutions to their needs. In a nutshell the book achieves the following: - Provides a conceptual framework to link patterns of political advocacy/mobilization and processes of migrants' socio-political inclusion - Integrates the (multi-disciplinary) literature on political mobilization and accommodating cultural diversity in an innovative fashion - Presents a comparative study on accommodating diversity in the health care system from a comparative transatlantic perspective - Generates insight into best practices in the health care system that will be of interest to scholars as well as practitioners in the field. The analysis of health care provision offers an opportunity to test new public policy strategies and the policy consequences of the now widespread aspiration to include citizens more fully in designing and implementing them.
Download or read book Perceived Health and Access to Care in Minority Settings written by Isabelle Gagnon-Arpin and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official-language minorities in Canada may face specific issues in accessing health care services that can lead to negative consequences on their health, utilization of health care services and satisfaction with the health care system. A secondary data analysis of the 2006 Survey on the Vitality of Official-Language Minorities revealed significant differences between the Anglophone minority (n=5,161) and the Francophone minority (n=12,029) with regards to general health, and access to and use of health care services. Important predictors of these outcomes included age, education level, household income, marital status and place of residence (urban/rural). Access to health care services in the minority language was associated with self-perceived health in the Anglophone minority only. Health policy recommendations elaborated in light of the findings include working on both the supply and the demand of health care services offered in the two official languages, while taking into consideration important contextual differences between regions.
Download or read book Providing Health Care in the Context of Language Barriers written by Elizabeth A. Jacobs and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Health Care and Immigration written by Patricia Fernández-Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering volume represents the culmination of state-of-the-art research whose purpose was to investigate the relationship between health care and immigration in the USA - two broken systems in need of reform. This volume sets out to answer the question: how do medical institutions address the needs of individuals and families who are poor, lacking English fluency, and often devoid of legal documents? The book provides an examination of the challenges faced by institutions aiming to serve impoverished people and communities desperately in need of help. It represents a comprehensive portrayal of two institutional arrangements affecting the lives of millions on a daily basis. Health Care and Immigration offers accounts of the alternative paths used by immigrants to bypass dominant health-care organizations, and regional variations in health-care; the evolution and character of health-care legislation; factors explaining the persistence of altruistic institutions in a market economy, as well as the parts played by local legislation and social networks; and changes resulting from migration that affect the health of immigrants. This volume will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students, as well as public officials addressing the health care needs of disadvantaged groups. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Download or read book National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care written by United States. Office of Minority Health and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Health Care written by Elene V. Metrosa and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally conceded that there are significant disparities in health and health care based on a person's racial and ethnic background. Infant mortality rates for black babies remain nearly two-and-one-half times higher than for whites. The life expectancy for black men and women remains at nearly one decade fewer years of life compared with their white counterparts. Rates of death attributable to heart disease, stroke, prostate and breast cancer remain much higher in black populations. Diabetes disease rates are more than 30 percent higher among Native Americans and Hispanics than among whites. Minorities remain grossly under-represented in the health professions workforce relative to their proportions in the population. In addition, despite a large and growing body of scientific evidence, many patients and providers remain unaware that racial and ethnic health care disparities are a problem and perceptions about health care inequalities vary between minorities and whites. closing the disparity gap. This book presents new research focusing on these disparities.
