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This analysis of the legal framework of the active offer of French language health care in Canada will examine its constitutional and legislative elements. The first part will explore the constitutional dimension, looking at aspects related to the Canadian Constitution and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms enshrined therein. In the second part, we will consider language laws at the federal level and in the provinces and territories. The study will show the asymmetrical nature of...
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L’analyse du cadre juridique de l’offre active de soins de santé en français au Canada abordera ses dimensions constitutionnelles et législatives. La première partie explore la dimension constitutionnelle de la question, dans son aspect fédéraliste autant que par rapport à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. Par la suite, il est fait mention des lois linguistiques applicables au gouvernement fédéral, dans les provinces et dans les territoires. L’étude démontre l’asymétrie de la...
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Discusses the availability of health services to French‑speaking residents of Ontario after Premier John Robarts announced his intention to institute minority-language services in the province in 1968. The Association Canadienne-Française de l’Ontario (ACFO), reorganized in 1969 from a similar group, lobbied for justice and social and health services for the French-speaking community in Ontario. The ACFO’s efforts led to increased services for the French minority, culminating in the passage...
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This study examines the impact of Finland’s social and healthcare reform on language-based welfare services for the Swedish-speaking population of Finland. The reform shifted healthcare responsibility from municipalities to regional wellbeing service counties (WBSCs), altering established linguistic boundaries in the process. Traditionally, municipalities have ensured the provision of services in both Finnish and Swedish in bilingual areas. Post-reform, Swedish speakers that represent a...
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This chapter examines the effects of language barriers on the access of patients and communities to quality health care. It also looks at communication challenges experienced by health professionals that provide this care. Using a case study of a rural hospital, the chapter highlights some of the challenges posed by the language barrier and explores current methods that English-speaking health professionals at this hospital use to overcome these difficulties. The case study findings indicate...
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At Hywel Dda, we acknowledge and celebrate our diverse communities in West Wales. The Health Board takes its statutory duties towards the Welsh Language very seriously. As an organisation we have always tried to deliver our services in the service users’ language of need. However, despite a commitment to deliver the Welsh Language Standards, we have not consistently achieved this. We aim to improve further by ensuring the delivery of the active offer concept, so that members of the public...
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Catalan-speaking citizens living in Catalonia have full, formal rights to use their language with all of their region’s administrations. Nevertheless, the available information on the knowledge and use of Catalan by civil servants shows that health care is a weak spot for regional administrations, due to the difficulty in covering all medical specialties. Plataforma per la Llengua has undertaken research in the form of a survey with a sample of 1,600 Catalan inhabitants, to ascertain the...
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À la fin des années 1970, le Québec se dote de la Charte de la langue française (Loi 101), qui modifie l’encadrement de la question de la langue de prestation des services de santé et de services sociaux. Parallèlement, de nombreux rapports, comités d’étude et politiques modifient en profondeur les pratiques institutionnelles et communautaires à l’endroit des personnes aux prises avec des problèmes de santé mentale. Depuis ce contexte de grandes transformations, où certaines réponses...
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Depuis quelques années, le Commissaire aux services en français attire l’attention du public sur le fait que le gouvernement provincial semble être d’avis que la Loi sur les services en français (LSF) de l’Ontario ne s’applique pas à la grande majorité des services de soins de santé financés par l’État, au motif qu’ils sont principalement offerts par des entités non gouvernementales. Plus précisément, le gouvernement a apparemment conclu que la LSF ne s’applique pas aux prestataires de soins...
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