discuss how a health care provider could use plain language and teach back, along with language access services to improve health communication across cultures, language, and literacy.
Language plays a very significant role in treatment and care of patient. When the health care provider uses the language what the service user understands the care is delivered to its highest possible as it becomes easy for the patient to communicate and clear his doubts and dilemmas.
Plain language refers to any type which can be oral and written, simple easy to understand. The care provider can use the plain language to make the service user feel very much comfortable by the following :
# have concised matter: the health care provider should keep on mind the concept that what ever the teaching delivered to the patients has to be concised where only important components to be discussed to the patient.
# using images: when the visual senses are used the individuals can understand the concept very clearly
# avoiding jargons: the language and words which are used should be known by the service user, and always avoid acronyms use the layman language which people can understand.
There are lot of language access services to improve the health communications across the cultures, language and the literacy:
These LAS (language access services) are relevant to the racial and ethnic disparities in health care which includes
# oral interpretation
# written translation
# translation signs
# using the other teaching aids and instructional media. If the person's language is not spoken or understood official interpret or to be arranged and conveyed and always to keep in mind not to depend completely on family members for the information.
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