Intercultural Mediation in Health Care Contexts – MEiOS Project

Authors

  • Alcinda Reis Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
  • Ana Spínola Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
  • Cláudia Chaves Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
  • Conceição Santiago Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
  • Emília Coutinho Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
  • Neila Karimo ACM I.P, Portugal
  • Teresa Dénis IPL

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25746/ruiips.v8.i1.19873

Keywords:

health care, intercultural mediation, migrants, multiculturalism

Abstract

The need to consider ethnic and cultural specificities, in addition to language barrier in interaction and care for migrant people, is now a reality for professionals in healthcare contexts. Aiming at the supply of these needs for professionals and migrants, High Commissioner for Migration developed in Portugal (2009-2012), the Intercultural Mediation Project in Public Services, placed intercultural mediators in the contexts: professionals who intervene in the resolution of tensions.
In 2015, the Higher Education Network is created at Intercultural, Mediation and the thematic health group: it is proposed the development of an inductive design study with ethnometological orientation, to identify the results of the Intercultural Mediation Project in Public Services. It is intended to highlight some of the results obtained, according to the stage of the study developed. It is concluded the importance of the inclusion of mediators and the potential for the development of their activity in multicultural care contexts teams.

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Published

2020-04-11

How to Cite

Reis, A., Spínola, A., Chaves, C., Santiago, C., Coutinho, E., Karimo, N., & Dénis, T. (2020). Intercultural Mediation in Health Care Contexts – MEiOS Project. Revista Da UI_IPSantarém, 8(1), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.25746/ruiips.v8.i1.19873

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020): Thematic Edition: Life Sciences and Health

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