Title Cross-cultural communication in the health sciences : communicating with migrant patients / Anne Pauwels

Published South Melbourne : Macmillan Education Australia, 1995

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WATERFT HEALTH	610.6960994 Pau/Ccc		AVAILABLE
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Description x, 206 pages ; 22 cm Contents Ch. 1. Language, Communication and Culture -- Ch. 2. Communicating In and Through Different Languages -- Ch. 3. Language and Communication Practices in Health Care -- Ch. 4. The Language Situation in Australian Society -- Ch. 5. Communicating with Migrant Patients Through Interpreting and Other Means -- Ch. 6. Communicating with Migrant Patients Through English Summary "Cross-cultural communication in the health sciences is a comprehensive guide to the issues and problems faced by health professionals when they communicate with their clients and patients from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Health professionals rely heavily on communication with or about a patient/health care user to provide adequate health care: they ask questions to establish what the matter is, they convey their diagnoses, actions or treatment programs via language, they give advice about health management and medcation, they give emotional support." -Back cover Analysis Communication in medicine Australia Intercultural communication Australia Languages in contact Australia Medical personnel and patient Australia Transcultural medical care Australia Communication in medicine Australia Intercultural communication Australia Languages in contact Australia Medical personnel and patient Australia Transcultural medical care Australia Notes CIP confirmed Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 191-200 Subject Communication in medicine -- Australia. Communication in nursing. Communication. Intercultural communication -- Australia. Languages in contact -- Australia. Medical personnel and patient -- Australia. Minorities -- Medical care -- Australia. Patients. Transcultural medical care -- Australia. Transcultural medical care. Transcultural nursing. Communication. Emigration and Immigration. Ethnic Groups. Professional-Patient Relations. Communication. Minority Groups. Transients and Migrants. Australia. LC no. 96141837 ISBN 0732929539 0732929547 (paperback)

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