Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis
Health care reform and immigration reform are heated subjects in the United States of America. The main research question of this paper links the two by analyzing the effectiveness of government communication about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) towards Hispanics. The expansion of health insurance do...
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| description | Health care reform and immigration reform are heated subjects in the United States of America. The main research question of this paper links the two by analyzing the effectiveness of government communication about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) towards Hispanics. The expansion of health insurance does not necessarily ensure access to care for all members of this minority group. Apart from questions of eligibility, immigrants face other obstacles, such as language, cultural differences, and perceptions about health care. These realities should be taken into consideration when communicating with Latinos, but was this the case for ACA? This paper presents the results of a corpus-based research of six government sources and six sources from non-profit organizations on ACA. An analysis of effective communication using 11 parameters was performed on this corpus and showed that undeniable communicative flaws, together with the too frequent lack of linguistic accuracy in Spanish, point out the need for experts when it comes to communicate publically with ethnic minorities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74578b3642e34002ab8d59928689e0f92022-12-22T03:53:15ZdeuEdiciones ComplutenseCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación1576-47372015-09-016310.5209/rev_CLAC.2015.v63.50178Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysisLieve Vangehuchten0Renee Willems1University of AntwerpUniversity of AntwerpHealth care reform and immigration reform are heated subjects in the United States of America. The main research question of this paper links the two by analyzing the effectiveness of government communication about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) towards Hispanics. The expansion of health insurance does not necessarily ensure access to care for all members of this minority group. Apart from questions of eligibility, immigrants face other obstacles, such as language, cultural differences, and perceptions about health care. These realities should be taken into consideration when communicating with Latinos, but was this the case for ACA? This paper presents the results of a corpus-based research of six government sources and six sources from non-profit organizations on ACA. An analysis of effective communication using 11 parameters was performed on this corpus and showed that undeniable communicative flaws, together with the too frequent lack of linguistic accuracy in Spanish, point out the need for experts when it comes to communicate publically with ethnic minorities.https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CLAC/article/view/50178effective communicationgovernment communicationprofessional communicationinstitutional communicationhealth care communicationHispanics. |
| spellingShingle | Lieve Vangehuchten Renee Willems Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación effective communication government communication professional communication institutional communication health care communication Hispanics. |
| title | Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis |
| title_full | Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis |
| title_fullStr | Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis |
| title_short | Hispanics and effective health care communication in the United States of America: a corpus-based analysis |
| title_sort | hispanics and effective health care communication in the united states of america a corpus based analysis |
| topic | effective communication government communication professional communication institutional communication health care communication Hispanics. |
| url | https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CLAC/article/view/50178 |
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