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Acculturation, Vitality, and Bilingual Healthcare
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Acculturation, Vitality, and Bilingual Healthcare
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The authors provide a conceptual framework for examining the delivery of bilingual healthcare for linguistic minorities in Canada’s Bilingual Belt, which includes English Quebec. First, they provide an overview of the ethnolinguistic vitality framework accounting for the sociostructural factors affecting the strength of minority and majority language communities within multilingual countries. Second, they show that the interactive acculturation model (IAM) helps account for relations between high- and low-vitality group speakers whose intercultural relations may be harmonious, problematic, or conflictual. Third, they provide a case study of a pluralist setting that offers three distinct bilingual healthcare systems for French and English communities in Canada’s Bilingual Belt. The authors point out that while the delivery of bilingual healthcare is cost neutral relative to unilingual healthcare systems, at issue is whether minority language patients achieve better health outcomes when they are cared for in their own language than in the language of the dominant majority.
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The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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2017
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49-74
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en
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978-0-19-021521-7
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Bourhis, Richard Y., and Annie Montreuil. “Acculturation, Vitality, and Bilingual Healthcare.” In The Oxford Handbook of Acculturation and Health, edited by Seth J. Schwartz and Jennifer B. Unger, 49–74. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320716912_Acculturation_vitality_and_Bilingual_Healthcare.
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