Spanish in Health Care fills an important gap by offering a panoramic overview of the research on Spanish in health settings that is emerging from a variety of disciplines. Synthesizing research from diverse disciplines such as sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, health services research, behavioral health research, health policy and administration, and social epidemiology, the volume offers a uniquely unified approach to the subject of Spanish in healthcare. This volume will be of interest to researchers in Spanish linguistics, sociolinguistics, health communication, and languages for specific purposes.

The updated, fifth edition of the widely used introductory Spanish textbook designed specifically for health care professionals Nurses, doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals increasingly need to communicate with patients in Spanish. Formerly titled An Introduction to Spanish for Health Care Workers, the fifth edition of this popular textbook is designed for students with little or no formal background in Spanish. It uses text, audio, video, classroom activities, and electronic exercises to teach basic grammar, specialized medical vocabulary, and colloquial terms as well as customs and communication styles. An interactive companion website features video clips that demonstrate practitioner-patient interactions and offers self-correcting exercises, an audio program, and flash cards. The fifth edition is also updated with - New topics, including muscles, pediatrics, heart disease, neurologic exams, and zika - Nearly 300 classroom activities, including exposition activities to develop the presentational mode of communication - Expanded vocabulary lists, sorted by frequency

Do you know what studies have shown to improve the outcome of patient care? To deliver quality care in the patient's language! The Spanish-speaking population growing rapidly and the number of people who need your help is only going to increase. Providing world-class medical care is challenging enough without the language barrier, not to mention all the stress involved in emergency situations. We understand you - There's no worse feeling than embarrassing yourself every time someone asks you to explain in Spanish different symptoms, diagnoses or tests and you have no clue how to say it. And in some cases this communication barrier could be the difference between life or death. ‘How do I get out of this situation?’, You may ask yourself, but have yet to find a straight-forward answer. Until now. Learn Medical Spanish in 100 Days is jam packed with medical terminology to get you communicating with patients fast! Inside you'll discover a series of common real world Spanish and English dialogues so you're prepared for nearly any situation. Additionally, each day consists of 10 new words and phrases to help you tear down the language barrier and provide top-notch care to your Spanish-speaking patients. Just imagine how effortless speaking Spanish will be for you after reading this book. Your confidence and ability to effectively communicate with native Spanish-speakers will dramatically improve. Why Learn Medical Spanish? Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... -Expand your medical Spanish vocabulary -Be able to gather important information from patients and facilitate patient orientation -Convey health information to patients -Inform and instruct about procedures -Make a connection with patients and families -Prepare the patient for treatment or discharge -Expand your basic understanding of the language -Much, much more! Building a strong foundation of vocabulary is critical to your improvement and reaching fluency. We guarantee you that this book is packed with vocabulary and phrases that you can start using today. Whether you're an EMT, nurse, doctor, dentist or even a medical assistant - this book is for you! Download your copy today! Check Out What Others Are Saying... Excellent book for someone in the health care field. I am a nurse who has to give patients instructions in Spanish everyday. This book comes in very handy for me. I love it. -Michelle Very helpful. It's great to have the pronunciation spelled out. -Jerry Even now as a senior citizen it seems I've been studying Spanish most of my life. This book is particularly helpful for medical "situations" such as "Where does it hurt?", "What is the intensity of the pain?" etc. -Richard A godsend for helping me refresh my Spanish. -Ollie What are you waiting for? Scroll back up and click the buy button to get your copy right now!

Focusing on communication needs in real-world clinical situations, Dr. Pilar Ortega's updated edition of this practical text helps you address today's growing demand for Spanish-speaking physicians and healthcare workers. This pocket-sized resource provides basic Spanish skills, sample interview questions, relevant cultural information, and more, in addition to online videos of physician-patient interactions, interactive self-assessment tools, and clinical vignettes. You'll find exactly what you need to develop better physician-patient communication skills, increase your cultural competence, and make better clinical decisions in your practice. Understand the nuts and bolts of better communication through Spanish grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, sample interview questions, and helpful interview techniques. Pocket size allows for quick reference in an easily accessible format. Improve your skills with new and expanded content including more practice exercises for self-assessment, information on cultural issues, grammar tips and practice, complex clinical scenarios, and how to best use interpreters in your practice. Stay up to date with new chapters on pediatric health; common procedures and informed consent; the physician's impression and plan; diabetes medication; travel history and special exposures; adult immunization history; exercise and adult health safety screening; and specialized physical examination. Gauge and hone your doctor-patient communication skills with interactive self-assessment tools and practice exercises. Watch video of real-time physician-patient exchanges (with English and Spanish subtitles), complete interactive practice exercises, and learn from clinical vignettes-all online at Student Consult. eBook version included! Access the entire book online or offline across all devices with the Student Consult eBook.

For many citizens primary health care is the first point of contact with their health care system, where most of their health needs are satisfied but also acting as the gate to the rest of the system. In that respect primary care plays a crucial role in how patients value health systems as responsive to their needs and expectations. This volume analyses the way how primary are is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination. Relating these differences to health system outcomes the authors suggest some priority areas for reducing the gap between the ideal and current realities.

Have you faced a medical emergency with a Spanish-speaking patient and found yourself unable to communicate with them? Do you want to have the ability to read through Spanish medical texts? Are you moving to a Spanish-speaking country and need to learn the language on a technical level? As a healthcare professional, you will come across all types of challenges in your daily work - as if the tasks you face already weren't tough enough, right? - so coping with each and every little thing can be a daunting task. One of the biggest roadblocks you can hit as a nurse, doctor or other health professional is a language barrier, in which you simply cannot understand or express what needs to be said. Everything slows down, and many times people suffer negative consequences because of it. For that precise reason, we have produced Medical Spanish: Real Spanish Medical Conversations for Healthcare Professionals to provide you with powerful, up-to-date and necessary tools to master the use of medical Spanish at all levels, from beginner to expert. With this book: Discover essential medical vocabulary, giving you the ability to express many terms that you will use on a day-to-day basis as a healthcare professional. Learn to recognize a person's health condition and make a diagnosis based on the information you have. Read through over 25 conversations detailing very specific, common situations that any healthcare professional will face, with a resolution to each conflict provided. Stay up to date with accurate, modern terminologies and procedures used - all while learning how to express them in Spanish! Make use of an incredible learning material that will boost your vocabulary and fluency skills in no-time! So with that said, all that's left for you is to purchase this book now and begin seeing the advantages that only Medical Spanish: Real Spanish Medical Conversations for Healthcare Professionals can provide you. Good luck!

This resource present a novel, but simple approach to mastering elemental and basic conversational Spanish through incorporating a blend of English and Spanish. Through early introduction of 100 basic words and phrases through multiple drills and mastery of 200 key health-related words, health care professionals and students at all levels learn confidence in vital communications with their Spanish-speaking patients and clients.

Designed for those with no previous experience speaking Spanish, this guide provides nurses, other medical professionals, and students with the tools to communicate with Spanish-speaking patients. Online audio is available to provide correct pronunciation and prepare learners for a wide array of medical situations. Using a step-by-step approach with plenty of examples, the text enables readers to quickly develop their Spanish knowledge. Question and response scenarios, vocabulary quizzes, anatomy identifi cation, summary exercises, and dialogue reinforce and expedite learning. Chapters provide appropriate Spanish vocabulary, terminology, and expressions commonly used in health care interactions--as well as likely patient responses--to prepare readers for conversational Spanish. Key sections enable readers to speak with confi dence while taking a patient's history, assessing pain, conducting a physical assessment, and talking about nutrition and pediatric and adult illnesses. Tips on cultural competence are featured throughout, culminating in a comprehensive chapter on transcultural nursing and the impact of culture, belief systems, and social norms on health care delivery to diverse Spanish-speaking populations. Key Features: Requires no previous knowledge of Spanish Focuses on Spanish words and phrases needed in common health care interactions with patients Includes multiple interactive print and audio exercises to enhance learning Gives print and audio examples of common patient responses Includes examples of common conversations between health care professionals and patients Provides scripted dialogues for conducting a complete history and physical exam, performing gynecological exams, and teaching scenarios for fetal development, pregnancy, breast exams, testicular exams, and contraception

Offering a practical, case-based approach, Spanish and the Medical Interview: Clinical Cases and Exam Review is a unique, immersive study and review resource for medical Spanish. It provides extensive training and review in two formats: the print book contains numerous cases spanning a wide variety of clinical settings, formatted as a patient would present for medical attention, while the audio cases provide multiple opportunities to hone your listening comprehension skills. Together, these learning components test your knowledge and skills in caring for Spanish-speaking patients and prepare you for case-based examinations that test clinical skills in Spanish. This first-of-its-kind title is ideal as a stand-alone resource or as a companion to Dr. Ortega's Spanish and the Medical Interview: A Textbook for Clinically Relevant Medical Spanish. - Helps you improve your interviewing skills, your understanding of patient responses, and your ability to explain a diagnosis and plan of care to Spanish-speaking patients, so you can provide a higher quality of patient care and safety in your practice. - Covers multiple presentations of cases in main organ system areas, including musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, endocrine, genitourinary, neurologic, psychiatric, eye/ear/nose/throat, and pediatric, in multiple patient care settings such as urgent care, emergency department, outpatient clinic, and inpatient wards. · - Focuses on topics that are particularly common in Hispanic/Latino patients and includes cultural health issues that may impact the patient's understanding of medical information, belief system, decision-making preferences, or access to care—all of which have a significant impact on your medical decision making and interviewing styles and effectiveness. - Leads you through key information for each case, prompting you to use your medical Spanish clinical skills in a series of prompts and questions as the case unfolds. Assessment questions follow each case to test your comprehension. - Provides more than two dozen audio cases to improve your listening comprehension of different nationalities and accents of Spanish-speaking patients. - Provides real-world content from Drs. Pilar Ortega and Marco Alemán, who serve on the steering committee for the National Medical Spanish Taskforce that aims to standardize the educational approach to a national assessment examination for Medical Spanish. - Expands your global skills set: in your home country, when caring for patients who speak Spanish, or when caring for patients in other countries through global medicine programs. - Evolve Instructor site with an image and test bank is available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https://evolve.elsevier.com.

Simplified Medical Spanish for Healthcare Professionals This book is specifically created for healthcare professionals: in particular, physicians, physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses (including, LVNs, LPNs), medical assistants, lab technicians, and ancillary medical staff. Interact with Spanish-speaking patients, even with zero prior background in the language. Learn basic Spanish medical phrases, key medical terminology, medical abbreviations, and more. Spanish-English and English-Spanish medical dictionary. Audio narrated by a native Spanish-speaker to practice your listening and pronunciation skills. Interact with Spanish-speaking patients Learn how to conduct patient interviews, speak with patients' family members, perform examinations, give instructions, provide diagnoses and prescriptions, and deal with several other medical scenarios - all in Spanish. The Most Useful Medical Spanish Vocabulary This book will provide you with basic Spanish medical phrases, key medical terms, medical abbreviations, as well as a handy Spanish-English and English-Spanish medical dictionary towards the end of the book. Practical Medical Scenarios From the basics such as obtaining patients' information, conducting tests, providing diagnoses, handling emergencies, pregnancies, surgeries, and more, you will also find some background information complete with phrases to help you handle every medical scenario with ease. Pronunciation Guide and BONUS Audio Most of the other similar books in the market will provide you with a phonetic pronunciation guide such as the one available in this e-book. But what other materials available in the market don't have is a FREE supplementary audio that you can listen to anytime, anywhere. You can use the audio tracks to practice your listening skills and you can also use them for pronunciation practice. The high-quality audio provided to you is narrated by a native Spanish-speaker to help train your ear to the sound of authentic Spanish as spoken by natives. Get your copy today and start learning medical Spanish!