The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released a Spanish-language guide to help educate Hispanic patients about type 2 diabetes. The pamphlet covers ways to control diabetes and reviews 13 brand-name and 10 generic oral medications that treat the illness. Forbes/HealthDay News
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June 13, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Don Schinske
NCHCIC Coordinating Committee
(916) 444-1506
dschinske@chiaonline.org
National Coalition charts path for Healthcare Interpreter Certification
CHICAGO – Members of a nationwide coalition of non-profit associations, language-service companies, hospitals, consumer groups and educators last week committed to developing a single national certification in medical interpreting.
Once developed and implemented, the certification will assure the minimum [...]
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Today’s New York Times includes a special section, Well, that provides health information covering the human body from brain to toe.
The “Well” articles are a great way for interpreters to review their knowledge about individual body parts and learn more about studies and common recommendations for maintaining health.
The Well home page also includes links to [...]
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By far, one of the most useful links for medical interpreters who want to improve their understanding of more commonly used medical terms, conditions, procedures, etc.
http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/index.html
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Four in five Americans say the U.S. health care system needs fundamental change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid [...]
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Just as an FYI, some paraphrased (from my Webster’s dictionary)
definitions:
refugee: someone forced to move to another country to escape danger or persecution
émigré: emigrant, especially one forced to emigrate for political reasons
emigrant: one who emigrates, [leaves one's place of abode or country for life or residence elsewhere]
immigrant: a person who comes to a country to take [...]
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Institute of Medicine Report
The Institute of Medicine’s important report “Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care” is available in full online, in PDF format. The report outlines information on disparities and recommendations for beginning to eliminate them.
http://www4.nationalacademies.org/onpi/webextra.nsf/web/minority?OpenDocument
“Public Health Reports”
The July-August 2003 issue of “Public Health Reports” is devoted to health care disparities.
http://www.publichealthreports.org/issuecontents.cfm?Volume=118&Issue=4
The [...]
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