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Health Communication

University of North Dakota

2017

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Language Concordance: Overcoming Language Barriers, Pamela Flavin-Lee Jan 2017

Language Concordance: Overcoming Language Barriers, Pamela Flavin-Lee

Physician Assistant Scholarly Project Posters

• Language discordance is a growing problem facing health care today. Communication barriers can be cultural or language based and are commonly cited as a major contributor to poor patient compliance and health outcomes.

• This research project seeks to identify promising developments aimed at overcoming language discordance through analysis of different translation implementation methods and correlating these with health outcomes.