Abstract
Background: Communication is a key factor in the health system. In the case of Deaf Community healthcare interactions could be affected by communication and it can also have a negative impact on health and jeopardise some of their health rights.
Objectives: Aims (i) know the communication access difficulties of deaf people in healthcare context (ii) determine how these difficulties violate their rights.
Methods: Ethnographical study.
Results: Subjects were 25 deaf adults (7 men; 18 women). Two themes were identified (1) barriers to information access – right to information; (2) communication barriers – right to privacy and to decide.
Conclusions: Communication difficulties and access to information have an impact on the health of deaf people, and violate health rights. In addition, their language rights like a community are also violate.
Impact statement: Research could have a positive impact on improvement to access, communication and safe in the Deaf Community, in a clinical context.
ORCID
Dolors Rodríguez-Martín http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5523-9954
Anna Falcó-Pegueroles http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3702-3009