Recognising the communication gap in Indigenous health care.

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  • Robert Amery
چکیده

13 T significant impact on health outcomes. Limited health literacy is not confined to Indigenous people, but it is greatlymagnified for speakers of Indigenous languages in comparison, for example, to non-English speaking migrants from countries where a scientific approach to medicine is practised andwhere these health concepts are already codified. The communication gap is most pronounced in remote areas where cultural and linguistic differences are greatest. The close interdependence of language and culture amplifies the gap, such that communication difficulties in these communities run deeper than language barriers alone.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Medical journal of Australia

دوره 207 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2017