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| Alexander BischoffSummaryAffiliation: University of Basel Country: Switzerland Publications
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The cost of war and the cost of health care - an epidemiological study of asylum seekersAlexander Bischoff
Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Division of International and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 141:w13252. 2011....
What do language barriers cost? An exploratory study among asylum seekers in SwitzerlandAlexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
BMC Health Serv Res 10:248. 2010..This purpose of this study was to investigate the association between language barriers and the costs of health care...- Communicating with foreign language-speaking patients: is access to professional interpreters enough?Alexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J Travel Med 17:15-20. 2010..This is worrisome because these strategies have been shown to be associated with poor quality health care... - Chronic disease management in Sub-Saharan Africa: whose business is it?Alexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
Int J Environ Res Public Health 6:2258-70. 2009..We conclude by making a strong case for the building up and strengthening the health workforce, insisting on the crucial role of nurses, their training, and involvement in chronic disease management... 
[Nursing interpreters? Interpreting nurses?]Alexander Bischoff
Institut für Pflegewissenschaft, Universitat Basel
Pflege 20:343-51. 2007..Thus, the setting-up of a pool of hospital-based ("internal"), trained bilingual health professionals appears to be an acceptable alternative...- Doctor-patient gender concordance and patient satisfaction in interpreter-mediated consultations: an exploratory studyAlexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
J Travel Med 15:1-5. 2008..However, little is known about the effect of gender in consultations with foreign language-speaking patients and in interpreter-mediated consultations... - The self-reported health of immigrant groups in SwitzerlandAlexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Bernoullistrasse 28, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
J Immigr Minor Health 10:325-35. 2008..More than 20% of people living in Switzerland are immigrants, defined as people with foreign nationality. This study examines health disparities between the main immigrant groups in Switzerland and the majority Swiss population... - Improving communication between physicians and patients who speak a foreign languageAlexander Bischoff
Quality of Care Unit, Department of Community Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals
Br J Gen Pract 53:541-6. 2003..Communication between physicians and patients is particularly challenging when patients do not speak the local language (in Switzerland, they are known as allophones)... - Language barriers between nurses and asylum seekers: their impact on symptom reporting and referralAlexander Bischoff
Department of Community Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
Soc Sci Med 57:503-12. 2003..These results suggest the importance of addressing language barriers in primary care centres in order to adequately detect and refer traumatised refugees. To address this problem, the use of professional interpreters is recommended... - "Migrant-friendly hospitals": a European initiative in an age of increasing mobilityAlexander Bischoff
Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland
World Hosp Health Serv 45:7-9. 2009..We summarise the current health situation of these groups, describe how the EU initiative began and how it led to the Amsterdam declaration, and conclude by outlining current developments... - Health and ill health of asylum seekers in Switzerland: an epidemiological studyAlexander Bischoff
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Eur J Public Health 19:59-64. 2009..In this study, we investigated the actual burden of disease among asylum seekers... - Access to healthcare interpreter services: where are we and where do we need to go?Alexander Bischoff
Department of Community Medicine and Primary Care, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
Int J Environ Res Public Health 7:2838-44. 2010..Future efforts should focus on sensitizing health professionals to the problems associated with use of ad hoc interpreters, as well as facilitating access to professional interpreters... - Uptake of breast cancer screening measures among immigrant and Swiss women in SwitzerlandMarina Fontana
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Swiss Med Wkly 138:752-8. 2008..The situation for immigrant women in Switzerland is compounded by the fact that all women living in Switzerland are at major risk of developing breast cancer during their lifetime... - Self-reported cardiovascular risk factors in immigrants and Swiss nationalsFlorian F Grossmann
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Petersgraben 2, Basel, Switzerland
Public Health Nurs 28:129-39. 2011..The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the prevalence of self-reported cardiovascular risk factors differs between immigrants and Swiss nationals... - Reproductive health care for asylum-seeking women - a challenge for health professionalsElisabeth Kurth
Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
BMC Public Health 10:659. 2010..We also investigated how the health professionals involved perceived the experience of providing health care for these patients...