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ReACTMe gathers 6 institutions: UBB and UMF (Romania); UNIBO and UNINT (Italy); USJ and UMU (Spain). It will provide tools for training medical interpreters.

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”HCB recibe pacientes extranjeros todo el año para que puedan recibir un tratamiento quirúrgico y rehabilitación intensiva en un entorno médico profesional, en su propio idioma y con un clima benigno, que les permite una rápida recuperación.”

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INTERPRETING IN PEDIATRIC THERAPY SETTINGS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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https://t.co/BxZH4oLxnS “We need our only bilingual person”

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The virtual webinar brought together Brazilian health professionals to answer questions and offer advice about improving patient-doctor interactions: addressing language barriers, taking more time to get to know their patients during medical appointments.

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“The commissioner’s address is one of those big moments where you start to hear about where the game’s going, all that off ice context, and we figured that was a good moment to really have this moment for accessibility and something we hope to build on.”
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“It is not up to healthcare staff to decide whether someone should have access to an interpreter, and there is undoubtedly a need for more training and awareness around this issue.”

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UK: Deaf people are now able to make 999 calls for the first time via a new emergency video calling service with sign language interpreters.

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”It is time to take urgent action to shape the tools we use, rather than simply rely on what is available.”

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"Some of the solutions to these challenges could come from the Ukrainian refugees themselves who also include medical personnel [...] 9 Intensive Polish language courses for medical personnel from Ukraine are currently being carried out."

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" Jo launched the Online Home Doctor website. [...] The web service is foreigner-friendly, with information available in Chinese and English as well as Japanese; OH Doctor can also serve patients speaking Vietnamese and Indonesian."

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La Confederación Estatal de Personas Sordas (CNSE) ha presentado los resultados de la ‘Encuesta sobre Salud Integral y Mujeres Sordas’.

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”the majority of my colleagues who are bilingual medical students and serve as ad-hoc interpreters come from communities that are underrepresented in medicine (URiM). We already know that URiM students experience structural barriers and racism. ”

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CHEO patients, their families and clinicians now have access to language interpreters, any time of day, seven days a week – all by app in often less than 20 seconds.

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”a February 2022 study of nearly 10,000 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 found that outcomes for LEP patients improved during the second wave of the pandemic, reportedly thanks to specific efforts to minimize language-based healthcare disparities.”

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Professional interpreters have been shown to improve overall care for LEP patients, including contributing to improved comprehension, clinical outcomes, and better satisfaction with the care provided