语言:被忽视的健康决定因素
Yasmeen Mansoor1, Tania Wong2,3, Jeannette L Comeau2,3
1Division of Nephrology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Paediatrics & child health
|June 3, 2024
概括
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科学领域:
- 多元文化人口获得医疗保健和健康公平.
背景情况:
- 加拿大的多元文化主义在医疗保健方面给非官方语言使用者带来了挑战.
- 对于非官方语言偏好 (NOLP) 患者来说,缺乏标准化的语言一致服务反映了历史上的边缘化.
- 语言是健康的关键社会决定因素,影响患者的治疗结果.
研究的目的:
- 突出加拿大对非官方语言偏好 (NOLP) 患者改善医疗保健服务的需要.
- 倡导政策,研究和制度变革,以解决医疗保健中的语言障碍.
主要方法:
- 这是一个评论,而不是一项研究.
- 它综合了关于语言作为健康的社会决定因素的现有证据.
- 它提出了一种多层次的方法来改善医疗保健系统.
主要成果:
- 来自其他国家的证据表明,医学解释改善了NOLP患者的医疗保健结果.
- 目前的加拿大医疗保健系统缺乏标准化,衡量语言一致的服务.
- 解决NOLP需要系统性变化.
结论:
- 需要采取协调一致的多层次努力,改善加拿大的非官方语言偏好患者的医疗保健.
- 政策,研究和制度变革对于公平获得医疗保健至关重要.
- 对于边缘化社区来说,承认语言是健康的社会决定因素至关重要.
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