The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare

In our increasingly multilingual, global society, language has become a critical area of interest for advancing public health and healthcare. The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare provides an interdisciplinary overview of theory, history, and research in the field. With a joint linguistic and medical perspective, this comprehensive resource addresses clinician-patient communication, assessment, research, and public health communication while offering key theoretical insights that inform the intersection of language, public health, and healthcare.

Bringing together contributions by an international panel of experts, this Handbook includes innovative approaches for improving clinical education, clinician-patient communication, medical language interpretation and translation, language concordance in clinical care, and more. Throughout the text, in-depth chapters recommend solutions and strategies that have the potential to improve the health and healthcare of linguistically diverse populations worldwide.

Designed to help integrate language-appropriate communication in all healthcare settings, The Handbook of Language in Public Health and Healthcare is essential reading for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional students of applied linguistics, health communication, and medicine. It is also an invaluable reference for language educators, clinicians, medical educators, linguists, health policy experts, and researchers.