36.2786, Confs: Language, Communication and Healthcare Delivery in Multicultural Societies (Cameroon)

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Subject: 36.2786, Confs: Language, Communication and Healthcare Delivery in Multicultural Societies (Cameroon)

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Date: 16-Sep-2025
From: Kizitus Mpoche [kizitus at yahoo.com]
Subject: Language, Communication and Healthcare Delivery in Multicultural Societies


Language, Communication and Healthcare Delivery in Multicultural
Societies
Short Title: LCHMS
Theme: Communicating Healthcare Delivery

Date: 12-Mar-2026 - 14-Mar-2026
Location: Douala, Cameroon
Contact: Collaborative Research on Africa
Contact Email: contact at collaborativeresearch.org
Meeting URL: https://collaborativeresearchafrica.org/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Ling &
Literature; Semantics; Sociolinguistics

Submission Deadline: 30-Nov-2025

Healthcare delivery in most African countries is done in official
languages which for the most part are colonial. Cameroon for example
has 283 languages (Eberhard, Simons and Fennig, 2023) with an Official
bilingual (English and French) policy which government thrusts
ferociously with little or no realistic sociolinguistic foundation.
Many other African countries have adopted colonial languages as
official languages (English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
depending on whom their colonial master is/was, at the detriment of
hundreds of local languages which for the most part are not used in
life-saving situations like healthcare delivery. This ethnically,
linguistically and culturally diverse setting spells variations in
patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviours about health and
well-being. Medical personnel are mainly trained in official languages
and they are supposed to work with populations which, in the main, do
not speak, write or understand these languages. These people have
their cultural perceptions and perspectives which may be generally
ignored within this multicultural context. Failure to understand and
manage social and cultural differences may have significant health
consequences for minority groups in particular (Betancourt, 2002). The
present conference hopes to bring together researchers, practitioners,
policy makers and stakeholders who would come together and share
ethnographical data and best practice on language use and
communication systems in healthcare delivery and well-being in
multicultural contexts.



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