LA NECESIDAD DE SERVICIOS DE TRADUCCIÓN E INTERPRETACIÓN EN EL SECTOR SANITARIO. LA SITUACIÓN EN LONDRES, DÜSSELDORF Y MADRID

Abstract

Governments constantly promote different training, work and research plans abroad. They establish links and fraternities and boost relationships with other countries in order to reach a higher international integration and cooperation. Consequently, migratory movements are more and more frequent, and they play a very important role for both development and cultural/communicative enrichment of the population of a country. However, these movements involve a continuous cultural and communicative exchange, and due to these reasons, immigrants can face many problems, the most important one of them being the communicative barrier. In this article, communicative problems that occur in health services are discussed, and a detailed study about the situation of three European cities (London, Du?sseldorf and Madrid) is performed. Analyzing the immigrant populations of each country and discovering the measures (organization, requirements, procedures, workers, computing programs, among others) that each hospital uses in order to solve these problems can be very useful for translators, linguistic mediators and hospitals.