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Mobile communication tools for a South African Deaf patient in a pharmacy context
Category:
Type:
Author(s):
Prangnat Chininthorn, Meryl Glaser, Adinda Freudenthal, William Tucker
Design Process Covered:
Analyze, Research
Industry Sector:
Electronics
Tag:
Global health
Country:
South Africa, Netherlands
Date:
November 30, 2016
Overview:
For Deaf people who communicate in South African Sign Language, miscommunication due to language barriers, under-education and under-employment can lead to a potentially dangerous therapeutic outcome when Deaf people misunderstand a pharmacist's instructions on how to take prescribed medicine....
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