Translating Health

British Columbia hospitals and health care clinics have translating and interpreting systems in place so doctors and nurses can communicate with people who don’t speak English. However, language is still a barrier to accessing health care and research shows that people who don’t speak either English or French tend to have poorer health than those who are fluent. Read the full story.

In person or on the phone?

Doctors and nurses can request interpreters to sit-in on their patients’ appointments, or they can call an interpreter up by phone, but finding the right interpreters for the world’s hundreds of languages and dialects can be a logistical nightmare.

Women’s Health

Research shows women in Canada are more vulnerable to health problems than men when they speak little or no English or French.

Turning interpreting into a S.U.C.C.E.S.S.ful business

A non-profit group that helps immigrants is starting to turn a profit with their interpreting and translating business.

To find out the research that went into this project, please read the Academic research document (PDF).

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