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Recognising the communication gap in Indigenous health care
Author(s) -
Amery Robert
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/mja17.00042
Subject(s) - indigenous , citation , sociology , perspective (graphical) , library science , northern territory , media studies , computer science , artificial intelligence , ethnology , ecology , biology
13 T significant impact on health outcomes. Limited health literacy is not confined to Indigenous people, but it is greatlymagnified for speakers of Indigenous languages in comparison, for example, to non-English speaking migrants from countries where a scientific approach to medicine is practised andwhere these health concepts are already codified. The communication gap is most pronounced in remote areas where cultural and linguistic differences are greatest. The close interdependence of language and culture amplifies the gap, such that communication difficulties in these communities run deeper than language barriers alone.