Open AccessHealth behaviour among bilingual Swedish speaking patients in the Finnish healthcare setting
Author(s) -
M Mustajoki,
Johan G. Eriksson,
Tom Forsén
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_317_20
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , health care , emergency department , language barrier , family medicine , medical emergency , nursing , environmental health , linguistics , population , philosophy , economics , economic growth
We assessed the prevalence and consequences of discordant language communication between bilingual Swedish speaking emergency patients and general practitioners (GPs) in Finnish healthcare. We compared the results with Finnish speaking emergency patients provided with language concordant healthcare.