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Interpreter trial ensures hospitals are no longer places where Aboriginal people ‘go to die’

By J Pope
In Aboriginal Health
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ABC News, ABC Kimberley By Matt Bamford,  Sat 7 Jul 2018  Many Aboriginal people feel like hospital is a place where they “go to die” but a groundbreaking trial is underway to change that. Interpreters have been introduced at hospitals in Western Australia’s far north to improve patients’ relationships with medical staff. Speaking between three and nine languages each, the...

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Improving health literacy
: guidelines

By J Pope
In Aboriginal Health, Contraception, Disability, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Gay Lesbian & Bisexual Health, Gender & Sex, Gynaecology & andrology, Hepatitis, HIV, LGBTIQ+ issues, Mental health & sexual health, Multicultural communities, People Who Inject Drugs / AOD, Pregnancy choices, Reproductive health, Safer sex, Sex & relationships education, Sex Work, Sexual dysfunction, Sexual, gendered & partner violence, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
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Clinical Advisor, July 03, 2016 It is no longer recommended that patients with low health literacy be identified. Instead, Universal Health Literacy Precautions are recommended. While some providers are concerned that using plain language with health-literate patients will offend, studies show that patients with adequate health literacy prefer to receive health information in an easier to...

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