Search for dissertations about: "multicultural communication"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words multicultural communication.
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1. The production and maintenance of inequalities in health care : A communicative perspective
Abstract : The Swedish health care system does not offer care on equal terms for all its end-users. Discrimination toward patients can take the form substandard communication toward women or foreign born patients. Discrimination is also embedded in the organizational context. READ MORE
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2. A Mixed Crew Complement : A maritime safety challenge and its impact on maritime education and training
Abstract : The human factor/human element starts to have a key role in accidents and incidents during shipments at sea. Investigations show that poor communications increasingly are the root for many tragedies. A possible reason for communication constraints is the growing trend to employ multicultural crews. READ MORE
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3. Meeting diversities in maritime education. A blend from World Maritime University
Abstract : To address a diversified student complement in academic studies is becoming more and more frequent in maritime education and training. Diversity challenges are also the reality onboard ships that muster a multicultural crew complement. READ MORE
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4. Psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography among women attending breast cancer screening. Assessment, prediction, and coping
Abstract : One side-effect of breast cancer (BC) screening is a false-positive mammogram among healthy women. That is, finding(s) on a screening mammogram that lead to additional breast examinations but where the woman is eventually considered free from BC. There is evidence of short-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive BC screening. READ MORE
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5. Language learning and technology. Student activities in web-based environments
Abstract : The impact of the web as a communicative arena, based on the use of social software, has changed conditions for communication on all levels of society; privately, at work and in education. This has opened up for multicultural communication, frequently with English as the lingua franca. READ MORE