Bridging Understanding in Medicare: Template for Effective Communication in Indigenous Languages

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dc.contributor.authorYusuff, L.A
dc.contributor.authorFadairo, Y.O
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-05T10:43:24Z
dc.date.available2019-03-05T10:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.descriptionJournal Articlesen_US
dc.description.abstractThe maintenance of a good patient-doctor relationship, otherwise known as clinical relationship, is central to health care delivery in medical practice. For this reason, the usual practice in medical schools all over the world is to make the attainment of communication skills compulsory for all. A doctor’s good communication skills, therefore, are a function of the medical vocabulary with which he communicates with his patients. It has been observed that doctors in many African societies, especially in Yorubaland, have mostly conveyed their ideas in medical jargons using the English language, and this inevitably breaches clinical relationships. This article seeks to address the issue by proposing a template for the conveyance of medical terms, in respect of consultation procedures and directional information labels in the hospital environment, in the Yoruba language as a medium of clinical communication. Appealing to concepts embedded in the theory of lexical morphology, this article demonstrates how word formation processes can be used to achieve a Yoruba language template for medical terminologies.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipTertiary Education Trust Funden_US
dc.identifier.citationYusuff, L.A and Fadairo, Y.O (2015). Bridging Understanding in Medicare: Template for Effective Communication in Indigenous Languages. Unilag Journal of Humanities, Vol.3(1), 47-57p.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2408-5030
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/3893
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Lagos Press, Akokaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of lagos Journal;Vol.3(1)
dc.subjectLexical morphologyen_US
dc.subjectAfrican societiesen_US
dc.subjectClinical relationshipen_US
dc.subjectMedical practiceen_US
dc.titleBridging Understanding in Medicare: Template for Effective Communication in Indigenous Languagesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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