- Title
- Communication at the health care coalface: lessons from selected clinics in Port Elizabeth
- Creator
- Mbengo, Nomatshawe
- Subject
- Communication in medicine -- Research -- South Africa Community health services -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Social medicine -- Research -- South Africa Medical care -- Research -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- vital:3591
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002166
- Description
- This thesis analyses the state of health care in South Africa with particular reference to a clinic and the Provincial Hospital in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. The complexities of health care provision in a diverse sociolinguistic environment where certain languages are emphasized over others, forms the cornerstone of the research. The research focuses on health care in a complex multi-cultural environment. The goal of the research is to present a coherent and robust translation framework for the development of suitable materials to enhance communication across language and cultural barriers in the health care sector. A model (based on research completed in the USA) is presented as a possible alternative in the final chapter of the thesis.
- Format
- 175 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Humanities, School of Languages
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Mbengo, Nomatshawe
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