Migration has reached unprecedented levels with 272 million international migrants worldwide. The rapid increase in migration, and by extension in linguistic and cultural diversity, has severe health implications. Despite international human rights standards, many migrants lack access to care and receive suboptimal quality of care. This health inequality is largely due to difficulties pertaining to the communication between healthcare professionals and patients who do not sufficiently share a co...
Right2Health rather investigates when, how, for whom, and for what purposes various communication strategies are deemed most effective in facilitating language discordant medical consultations and migrant patient outcomes. Based on the results, a patient and healthcare provider decision-aid tool, i.e., MediLanguage, was developed and evaluated. This tool supports migrant patients and healthcare professionals in making joint personalized decisions about the use of integrated communication strateg...