Translators and mediators: Bilingual young people's accounts of their interpreting work in health care

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2097-2110

  Green, Judith ^a   Free, Caroline ^a   Bhavnani, Vanita ^b   Newman, Tony ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Research and Development   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Interpreting; Mediating; UK; Young people

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; LANGUAGE; YOUNG POPULATION;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFLICT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPE; EXPERIENCE; FAMILY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; SKILL; SPEECH; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

EID: 14644415553     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.067     Document Type: Article

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