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Deaf Communication Barriers

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2- Barriers to access to health information and health care services among the deaf
Communication competency plays a primary role in successful treatment (Mark V Williams, Davis, Parker, & Weiss, 2002). For instance, effective provider-patient communication for successful sexual and reproductive health programs (Kwadwo Mprah, 2013), decreased vulnerability to avoidable adverse events (Bartlett, Blais, Tamblyn, Clermont, & MacGibbon, 2008) and better use of preventive health services have been demonstrated (Villani & Mortensen, 2013)
According to the Helen Killer’s comment about hearing loss, communication is vital for the deaf (Meador & Zazove, 2005). For example, deaf patients’ satisfaction and therapeutic compliance are affected by the adequate health care provider-patient communication (O'Hearn, 2006). Nevertheless, communication and language barriers have been recognized as the indubitable underlying causes of the gap in health knowledge among the deaf community (Kuenburg et al., 2016).
The lack of health care providers understanding of deaf culture and required communication skills to interact better with the deaf is the leading cause of communication problem they face in health settings (JohnHines, …show more content…

Further, the Disability Discrimination Act is established in the UK. These Acts focus on the equal access to health care services including doctors' offices, optometrists, dentists, banks, insurance agencies and day care centers (nidirect government services, 2014). Furthermore, under these Acts, effective communication with deaf patients and providing sign language interpreter services are recognized. For this end, having adequate deaf patient-providers communication is mandated during emergency health service delivery under the section 504 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act (Chacko et al.,

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