Promoting the health of women of non-English-speaking backgrounds in Australia.
Immigrants with non-English-speaking backgrounds face many linguistic and cultural barriers when trying to use Australia's health services. Gender inequities make matters especially difficult for women with such backgrounds, who largely belong to the lower socioeconomic categories. The present article describes two health promotion projects whose success is largely attributable to their recognition of the difficulties faced by these women and to the strategies devised to overcome them with the aid of liaison workers and bilingual community educators.
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Ethnic Health Policy Unit, Queensland Department of Health, Brisbane, Australia.
D003144:Communication Barriers; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009517:New South Wales; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods; D011793:Queensland; D014932:Women's Health Services