The Right2Health: Overcoming language barriers in a superdiverse world

This PhD project focuses gathering evidence from healthcare professionals, migrant patients, and patients’ caregivers on the traditional and digital communication strategies used in language discordant consultations for ensuring an effective medical communication while mitigating language barriers. Using these evidence, the aim is to develop and evaluate a (digital) decision-aid for healthcare professionals and patients to enable joint, personalized, and informed decision-making on effectively applying integrated communication strategies to mitigate language barriers and enhance patient outcomes. This project is conducted in cooperation with KU Leuven, where discourse/translation and interpreting studies’ perspectives are taken on.

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Status: Ongoing since November 2021
Funding: Dutch Research Council (NWO)