A sustainable women's health surveillance policy development cycle, as envisioned by the Advisory Committee on Women's Health Surveillance[ 5], requires interdisciplinary input (from researchers, health practitioners, data collectors, analysts and interpreters, policy and program developers, and communicators) at all stages.
The line between major and minor is not clear even for the neutral interpreter of policy.
In a 1964 profile in The New York Post, Mr. Slote was described as the mayor's "listening post and running block, diplomat and interpreter of city policy".
Iraq, the prime minister said, speaking through an interpreter, follows a foreign policy "which does not intervene in the affairs of others and does not allow the others to intervene in its own affairs".
At most institutions, the department chair is the primary interpreter of written tenure policy; it's his or her obligation to communicate the unwritten "rules of the game".
Based on our results, we believe that other priority activities will include developing an explicit hospital policy statement on interpreter use (when, why and how interpreters should be called), and communicating this policy during orientation of all new staff.
In the end, how we view the service of these Afghan interpreters will ultimately determine our policies toward them.
Aning holds the D-2 position as Secretary of the Policy Making Organs (chief interpreters of rules of procedure and the drafters of most chair's or rapporteur's summaries).
In addition, we are not able to verify the percentage of eligible patients who received IS services during health care events, though institutional policy dictates that professional interpreters participate in every clinical encounter.
One of the most commonly suggested improvements was to make the policy on the use of interpreters, including guidelines concerning the use of different types of interpreters and modes of interpreting, accessible and easy to understand to all employers at the workplace.
Furthermore, while informal interpreters are considered 'second best' from a policy perspective and within the professional interpreting community, some service-users prefer to use family members and friends as interpreters because, in their experience, formal interpreters may align themselves with general practitioners, thus obscuring elements of the patient's narrative.
