Intercultural mediation in the sanitary field at Murcia Region
Abstract
The arrival of inmigrants from countries with different cultures set challenges in the receiver society. The intercultural mediation emerges because of the arrival of inmigrants during the last decade and the understanding necessity between the different cultures and the autochthonous society in order to promote a multicultural society. The objective of this study is to think about the intercultural mediation in health, by means of a bibliographical analysis, as the factor of being a link between people from different cultures does not enable for being considered as intercultural mediators. Between the barriers that exist in the context of the intercultural mediation are the difficulty in the interpretation, the fact that there is no common formation of mediators and health agents, the phsychological load and a non-standarized formation. The lack of recognition on the half of the health proffesionals and the economic expense that the introduction of a new professional figure supposes make that the positive effects that provoque the intercultural mediators in the health-care systems are not seen.Downloads
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