Language Adaptation in Health Care and Health Services: Issues and Strategies

The purpose of this project is to improve the knowledge of the health status and well-being of individuals in Québec’s language minority communities and document linguistic adaptation in health and social services. [...] Institut national de santé publique du Québec III Language Adaptation in Health Care and Health Services: Issues and Strategies Under the Act respecting health services and social services, the Québec network is required to provide services in English to anglophones and adapt its services to the needs of the members of cultural communities. [...] The purpose of this project is to improve the knowledge of the health status and well-being of Québec’s anglophones and document linguistic adaptation in health care and social services. [...] 1.2 THE CONSEQUENCES OF LANGUAGE BARRIERS ON ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES Language barriers that hinder access to health care and social services generally take the shape of communication problems between professionals and patients due to the fact that the two parties do not speak the same language. [...] 1.6 OBJECTIVES AND METHODS 1.6.1 Objectives The purpose of this literature review is to present the strengths and weaknesses of several approaches to optimizing language communication between health and social service professionals and their minority language clients in the provision of care and services.