Unity in diversity: mapping healthcare interpreting studies (2007-2017) [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2019 This paper intends to examine the evolution of healthcare interpreting studies published in SSCI and A&HCI journals between 2007 and 2017. A total of 40 journal articles have been selected from 23 SSCI or A&HCI journals, covering journals on translation ...
Yubo Liu, Wei Zhang
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The evolution of a healthcare interpreting service mapped against the bilingual health communication model: a historical qualitative case study [PDF]
Public Health Reviews, 2020 Background Twenty-five years ago, the need for health care interpreting in Switzerland increased due to the sharp influx of asylum seekers from war zones and countries of political unrest.
Alexander Bischoff
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Professionalization trajectory of healthcare interpreter certification in the context of the language industry: a comparative study of industry-led and government-led models, with implications for China [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthThis study investigates the professionalization trajectory of healthcare interpreter certification under the emerging paradigm of the language industry and discusses the implications for China's nascent system.
Wei Hu, Jiaming Jiang
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The vicious circle: how systemic barriers perpetuate maternity interpreting service inadequacies for migrant women in the UK [PDF]
Frontiers in Global Women's HealthIntroductionMigrant women who speak languages other than English in the UK face elevated risks of adverse birth outcomes and experience significant maternal health disparities, conditions exacerbated by persistent inadequacies in interpreting service ...
Li Li
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Healthcare interpreting policy in China: Challenges, rationales, and implications
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2023 Unlike countries that have a long immigration history, China began to welcome a growing number of foreign residents since its opening-up in the 1970s.
Wanhong Wang
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Language of relief: medical interpreting within the scope of the refugee crisis response
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2020 One of the main challenges facing local authorities in the regions affected by the current refugee and migrant crisis is to properly deal with the healthcare dimension, both in terms of providing adequate healthcare to migrants and regarding public ...
Vedrana Čemerin, Marina Črnko
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BMJ Open, 2023 Objective This study aims to evaluate the usage and implementation of video remote (VR) interpreting and telephone remote (TR) interpreting in primary healthcare settings.Design This publication forms part of a larger three-pronged study in which we ...
Martin Scherer +3 more
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Providing truly patient-centred care: Harnessing the pragmatic power of interpreters
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2014 In order to achieve the aims set out in South Africa’s National Policy on Quality in Health Care (2007:4), the gap between standards and actual practice must be measured, reduced, and ultimately, eradicated.
Wallmach, Kim
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Lingue Culture Mediazioni, 2017 This study aims at investigating healthcare interaction first and foremost as a form of institutional talk-in-interaction (Schegloff 1990), which, when interpretermediated, requires an adjustment of discourse practices and configuration (Pöchhacker and ...
Eugenia Dal Fovo
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European Psychiatry, 2021 Introduction The bi-directional relationship between mental and physical illness is well established. Therefore, in order to lower the already high mortality rates associated with psychiatric disorders, physical health issues must be closely monitored ...
M. O’Donnell +4 more
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