Seminar: Health literacy, clinician language and social determinants of health
Seminar
The ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care presents Health literacy, clinician language and social determinants of health A seminar by Professor Jon Jureidini (School of Medicine, University of Adelaide) JOIN ZOOM MEETING Language is critical to the management of chronic illness. One…
The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care
Webinar/Online
Communication in health care is a major quality and safety issue. Every day in Australian hospitals, miscommunication causes avoidable critical incidents - patients die, are harmed or receive the wrong treatment because of ineffective communication, for example during handovers or diagnosis.…
Language, Informed Consent, and Inclusivity in Medical Research and Practice
Webinar/Online
The UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics & IC4CH invite you to ‘Language, Informed Consent, and Inclusivity in Medical Research and Practice' About this event It is well-established that certain groups – for example poorer, immigrant, indigenous, and ethnic minority communities – in the…
Communication in Health Care and the Impact of COVID-19
Webinar/Online
Skilled communication is critical for delivering safe, effective care. Yet perhaps at no other time in our living memories has communication in healthcare been so important yet so challenging. In this period of uncertainty due to an unprecedented global pandemic, consistent and effective public…
Effective Communication saves lives: The work of the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH)
Webinar/Online
Join a panel of experts from across ANU to find out how we are addressing communication issues in health care. In Australia alone it is estimated that 500,000 people per year are harmed by the hospitals they go to for help, that is, they suffer from an avoidable or preventable critical…
Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Corpus Linguistics workshop
Workshop
This free two-day workshop, arranged jointly by the Australian National University Lancaster University Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, offers a series of sessions on topics in corpus linguistics and the application of corpus techniques in discourse studies and the study of health(…
International Symposium on Communication in Health Care (ISCH) 2018
Symposium
The Institute for Communication in Health Care holds an annual International Symposium in order to bring healthcare professionals, clinicians, linguists, communication scholars, educators and researchers together for an inspiring event to share their ideas,…