Overcoming language barriers

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2006

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Levin, M E
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South African Medical Journal

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http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj
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University of Cape Town

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Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Faculty
Faculty of Health Sciences
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Abstract
Patients experience significant barriers to accessing quality medical care. Foremost among these are socioeconomic, structural and cultural/linguistic barriers. Studies also focus on the potential implications of alternative explanations for disease. In the African setting these alternative explanatory models are often regarded as a cause for decreased assessment of severity,1 late presentation,2,3 non-adherence to medical treatment4 and the use of potentially dangerous traditional remedies.5,6.
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Levin, M. (2006). Overcoming language barries. South African Medical Journal, 96(10), 1058.

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