Language and Health
Improving Access to Language Services in Health Care: A Look at National and State Efforts
... for language services in Medicaid/CHIP has been expedited because these large programs have administratively determined reimbursement ...although language services for Medicaid/CHIP populations are ...
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Divided by a lack of common language? a qualitative study exploring the use of language by health professionals treating back pain
... patient's language, because they lacked alterna- tive terms or because they believed that using the terms with additional explanation surmounted the difficulties created by using a problem ...the health ...
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A corpus based study of depressive language in online teen health communications
... online health communication via emails or messages from teenagers who seek advice or information ...the language used on an online forum often entails a mixture of both spoken and written ...
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Emotional health in adolescents with and without a history of specific language impairment (SLI)
... examined language in populations referred primarily for psychiatric ...undiagnosed language impairment (40%) in their clinic ...that language impairment was often not picked up by Child and ...
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Language, culture and mental health: a study exploring the role of the transcultural mental health worker in Sheffield, UK
... main language and cultural issues facing them in their work remit, their views about interpreters’ and transcultural workers’ background experiences, linguistic abili ties and cultural understanding, and finally, ...
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IMPROVING HEALTH EQUITY THROUGH LANGUAGE ACCESS: A Model for Integrated Language Services throughout the Toronto Central LHIN
... Sign Language (ASL). The court found that not providing a sign language interpreter impaired their ability to communicate with health care provid- ers, and increased the risk of misdiagnosis and ...
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BosphorusSign: A Turkish Sign Language Recognition Corpus in Health and Finance Domains
... the health domain, 171 samples belonging to the finance domain and the remaining 188 samples comprising commonly used signs in everyday ...sign language researchers both from the computer science and ...
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The role of spoken language in cardiovascular health inequalities: a cross-sectional study of people with non-English language preference
... and health care focuses on non-white ...or language. This analysis — by language preference rather than ethnicity — revealed health inequalities in cardiovas- cular diagnosis which are ...
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Making Language Access to Health Care Meaningful: The Need for a Federal Health Care Interpreters' Statute
... many health care facilities face strong perceived incentives to regard patients competent in the English language or to hold non-professional interpreters out as being competent so that no professional ...
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Subjective Health: The Roles of Communication, Language, Aging, Stereotypes, and Culture
... instance, language choices by elder communicators that result in under-accommodative talk (Gasiorek, in press) are that which is topic-tangential and overly-effusive where older people can be seen to disclose too ...
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The Effects of Language and Geography-Defined Groups on Health Insurance Choice
... Tables 9A and 9B explore how network effects vary across levels of English fluency and health status. In 9A, I find that network effects are slightly stronger for adults in linguistically isolated households ...
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Emotional health, support, and self-efficacy in young adults with a history of language impairment
... emotional health and language abilities are not entirely ...emotional health problems which in turn may impact on the level of family support available to children and young people (O’Connor, Heron, ...
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PROVIDING LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION SERVICES IN HEALTH CARE SETTINGS: EXAMPLES FROM THE FIELD
... providing language interpretation ...Children’s Health Insurance Program, have, to date, only infrequently been used to reduce these ...primary language is severely lacking, making it difficult for ...
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Using Text Mining and Natural Language Processing for Health Care Claims Processing
... A health care claims processing application is introduced which processes both structured and unstructured information associated with medical insurance ...natural language processing (NLP) engine, together ...
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Hispanic Children With Special Health Care Needs From Spanish-Language Households
... All of the estimates presented here are subject to the usual limitations of random-digit-dial telephone surveys, including exclusion of households without landlines and problems ob- taining cooperation from eligible ...
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Emotional health, support, and self-efficacy in young adults with a history of language impairment
... depression and of anxiety. For both models, 7 predictors (6 social support variables and self- efficacy) were entered in the first step. Non-significant predictors (p>.05) were removed from the model and the models ...
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Language contributions to health related quality of life in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
... You will be asked to complete a short hearing test to see how well you can hear in both ears. This task will take approximately 5 minutes. Then you will be asked to complete tasks to assess your thinking and your ...
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Emotional health, support, and self-efficacy in young adults with a history of language impairment
... emotional health in the general population (Lucas, Skokowski, & Ancis, ...poor language, and this may result in low perceived self- efficacy, which in turn may result in poor emotional ...emotional ...
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Cultural Competency: The Effects of Culture Shock and Language Stress in Health EducationLucia Buttaro
... by health educators who use the cultural knowledge, prior experiences, and performance styles of diverse learners to make learning more appropriate and effective for ...a health educator achieves is based ...
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Somali Refugees in Buffalo: The Impact of Language Barrier on the Health Care Access
... barriers language affects their ability to access ...specific language dynamics are important for consideration when servicing this ...to health disparities among this population (National Center for ...
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