Communicating across cultures: Improving translation to improve complex emergency program effectiveness

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 252-256

  Bolton, Paul A ^a   Weiss, William M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

complex human emergencies; cross cultural; disasters; ethnographic methods; qualitative methods; translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EMERGENCY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LANGUAGE;

DISASTERS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; RELIEF WORK; TRANSLATING;

EID: 0035480855     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X00043387     Document Type: Article

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3. Weiss W, Bolton P: (2000) Training in Qualitative Methods for PVOs and NGOs. Available at http: //www.jhsph.edu/refugee/resources.html. Accessed 28 June, 2001.