Book chapter
English

User-Oriented Healthcare Translation and Communication

Published inMeng Ji and Sara Laviosa (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices, p. 1-23
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date2020
Abstract

Healthcare translation provides a useful and powerful intervention tool to facilitate the engagement with migrants with diverse language, cultural, and health literacy backgrounds. The development of culturally effective and patient-oriented healthcare translation resources has become increasingly pressing. In this chapter, the authors explore, firstly, patient-focused and culturally effective healthcare and medical translation methodologies by integrating insights from health literacy research and corpus-based textual readability evaluation and, secondly, user-oriented criteria which can be used in the development and evaluation of new medical interpreting technologies with a view to enhancing the usability among patients from refugee, migrant, or other socioeconomically disadvantaged populations.

Keywords
  • Linguistics
  • Translation
  • Interpretation
Citation (ISO format)
JI, Meng, SØRENSEN, Kristine, BOUILLON, Pierrette. User-Oriented Healthcare Translation and Communication. In: The Oxford Handbook of Translation and Social Practices. Meng Ji and Sara Laviosa (Ed.). [s.l.] : Oxford University Press, 2020. p. 1–23. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190067205.013.33
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