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Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan,
M.S., M.L.S.
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Su Salud. South Texas Community College site with
multiple links to Spanish- language health materials, search
engines, and much more. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/lrc/Library/webdirectory/asusalud.htm
Asian
and Pacific Islanders HIV/AIDS Resources. Brochures in
Asian languages. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://www.omhrc.gov/hivaidsobservances/api/api_resources.html
Asian Pacific Islanders Women's
Health. A website from the FDA Los Angeles District for
women seeking cancer screening services. Retrieved September
17, 2004, from http://www.apanet.org/~fdala
Cancer Resources in Languages other than English- Cancer Index.
Links to information in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Italian, Japanese, Protuguese, Spanish, and Other. Retrieved
May 15, 2005, from http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks13.htm
CaNetiq.
An international domestic violence and abuse agencies list.
Retrieved September 25, 2005, from http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang
Center
for Immigrant Health. Provides tuberculosis brochures
in multiple languages. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/tb/brochures.html
Dental
ResourceNet. (2000). Provides dental information for patients
in 17 languages. Retrieved October 17, 2005, from
http://www.dentalcare.com/soap/patient/english/menu_archive.htm
Department
of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention- Influenza Iinformation in Other Languages.
Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/languages.htm
Diabetes
on the web: Websites Multilinguisticos. This website was
created in an attempt to help people with diabetes from throughout
the world. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/other-10.htm
Divison
of Cooperative Extension of the University of Wisconsin-Extension.Videotapes
for advance directives in Hmong and Spanish. Retrieved May
15, 2005, from http://www.uwex.edu/ces/media/catalog/death.html
Ethnic
Health Resource List .Lists of brochures in Thai, Cambodian,
Laotian, Hmong, Vietnamese. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from
http://health.utah.gov/hrm/ethnic/language.html
Ethnic
Non-English Languages. Health Promotion Herfordshire,
from the National Health Service in the UK. Includes multiple
languages and an emergency multilingual phrasebook. Retrieved
May 19, 2005, from http://www.nhsinherts.nhs.uk/hp/health_topics/ethnic/ethnic_links_languages.htm
Ethnicity
Online. Contains a library of resources that have been
translated into languages other than English. Retrieved September
25, 2005, from http://www.ethnicityonline.net/patient_information.htm
EurasiaHealth Knowledge
Network (a project of the American International Health
Alliance/ AIHA) is an on-line clearinghouse featuring a library
of multilingual health resources (over 400 health related
translated materials) available in the languages of the New
Independent States (NIS) and Central and Eastern Europe, databases,
and interactive forums. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.eurasiahealth.org
FDA-Food
and Drug Adminstration. My Medicines brochure, Food and
Drug Adminstration, Office of Women's Health. Retrieved May
15, 2005, from http://www.fda.gov/womens/taketimetocare/mymeds.html
FDA-Food
and Drug Administration. Consumer publication in Spanish.
Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.fda.gov/oia/foreigndocs.htm
Genetics
Education Center. Genetic conditions/rare conditions support
groups and information in languages other than English. Retrieved
September 28, 2005 from http://www.kumc.edu/gec/support/internat.html
Healthfinder. A
free guide to reliable consumer health and human services
information. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.healthfinder.gov
Health
Translations Directory. Health information from the Government
of Australia, Victoria; translated into many different languages.
Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au
HICUP-Health
Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the
Public. Links to Chinese language health information web
sites. May 15, 2005, from http://library.med.nyu.edu/patient/hicup/MoreLinks.html
Hmong Health Education
Network. The goal of the network's website is to provide
access to health information for Hmong people and those who
provide health, education and social services to the Hmong
community. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from http://www.hmonghealth.org/
Immunization Action Coalition.
Courtesy of the Minnesota Department of Health a quick chart
of vaccine-preventable disease terms in mutliple languages.
Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.immunize.org
Immunization
Action Coalition. Vaccine information statements listed
by language and by disease. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.immunize.org/vis/index.htm
Immunization
Actions Coalition. Improving immunization practices: A
collection of useful resources to health care professionals
provide vaccines appropriately and efficiently Retrieved May
15, 2005, from http://www.immunize.org/izpractices
Institution
for Social and Economic Development.Provides information
about eligibility for public benefits directly to refugees.
Available in multiple languages. Retrieved September 1, 2005,
from http://www.ised.org/Research&Evaluation/RWIRP.asp
La Leche
League. A collection of breastfeeding information in languages
other than English. Retrieved May 15, 2005, from http://www.lalecheleague.org/LLLIlang.html
Massachuetts
Health Promotion Clearinghouse Catalog. Click on material
available in pdf. In several languages. Retrieved May 19,
2005, from http://maclearinghouse.com/CatalogPage.htm
McKinley
Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Health Information handouts (26 topics) into eight different
languages from the multi-cultural clearinghouse website available
for a fee. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from
http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/Wellness/SpecialPopulations/translatetopics.html
MedInfoRus.
MedInfoRus has been developed by a group of medical librarians
from New York City with the goal of helping Russian-speaking
audience to search the Internet for medical information. Retrieved
May 15, 2005, from http://medinforus.homestead.com/PInformation.html
MultiCultural
Educational Services. A commerical site, provides Multilingual
Health and Safety Education Materials in Russian, Serbo-Croatian,
and other languages for nominal fees. Retrieved May 15, 2005,
from
http://www.mcedservices.com//gothe.html
Multilingual
Consumer Health Resource List. Provides up-to-date information
on health literacy and multilanguage resources. Retrieved
February 3, 2005, from http://www.metro.org/SIGs/chi.html
Multilingual
Information: Multilingual Health Information for Seniors.
Provides information from Oakwood Hospital to increase health
awareness of both English and non-English speaking seniors.
Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://www.oakwood.org/Education/education_detail.asp?ContentId=592
My
Voice- My Choice: Your Advance Directives Information.
From Oakwood Hospital, provides information on advance directives.
Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://www.oakwood.org/Visitors/visitors_detail.asp?ContentId=1185
National
Alliance for Hispanic Health. Provides information in
Spanish regarding cancer, HIV/AIDS, tobacco, immunizations,
women's health and cultural proficiency. Retrieved October
12, 2005, from http://www.hispanichealth.org/publications.lasso
The
National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. COSH
groups are private, non-profit coalitions of labor unions,
health and technical professionals, and others interested
in promoting and advocating for worker health and safety.
Provides training in languages other than English and Spanish,
including Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Tagalog, and other.
Retrieved September 28, 2005, from http://www.coshnetwork.org/materials_in_other_languages.htm
NDEP-National Diabetes
Education Program. Most of the resources provided here
are available in both Spanish and English. To see Spanish
language materials, select a subject area, then scroll to
the bottom of the screen and click on the "Spanish"
link. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://www.ndep.nih.gov
National
Institute for Literacy. The health and literacy special
collection lists health education materials in languages other
than English. Retrieved September 26, 2005, from http://www.worlded.org/us/health/lincs/index_language_a_m.html
National
Library of Medicine. Consumer Health Information- Multilingual
Health Information. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://www.nnlm.gov/train/chi/multi.html
New
South Wales Multicultural Communication. Brochures in
multiple languages from the Australian government. Retrieved
May 19, 2005, from http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/health-public-affairs/mhcs/publications/langindex.html
NOAH- New
York Online Access to Health. NOAH provides bilingual
access to high quality full-text consumer health information
in English and Spanish. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from
http://www.noah-health.org/index.html
The
Nutrition Education for New Americans Project. (2004).
From Georgia State University, this project has ended but
the nutritional and diabetes handouts are still available
in multiple languages. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://monarch.gsu.edu/multiculturalhealth
NYU School
of Medicine Center for Immigrant Health. Provides information
on tuberculosis in 10 different languages. Retrieved October
12, 2005, from http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/tb/index.html
Oregon
Health & Science University. (1999). Patient education
resources for clinicians. Retrieved October, 12, 2005, from
http://www.ohsu.edu/library/patiented/links.shtml
Overlake
Hospital Library, Bellevue, Washington. Multilingual and
Multicultural Health Brochures and Information Sites, From
Overlake Hospital Library, Bellevue, Washington. Retrieved
May 19, 2005, from http://medlib.overlakehospital.org/library/multi.htm
Office
of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Fish consumption
advice in languages other than English. Retrieved September
25, 2005, from http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/fishlang.html
Office
of Refugee Resettlement: Special medical conditions.(2003).
Provides technical assistance to local, national resettlement
agencies providing services for refugees with HIV/AIDS. Retrieved
August 29, 2005, from http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/techasst/irsa_hiv.htm
Palliative
Care Council of South Australia Inc. Multicultural Palliative
Care Victoria- Australia, Palliative Care Council of South
Australia Inc. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from
http://www.pallcare.asn.au/mc/mccontents.html
PapScreen
Victoria. Is contracted to develop and implement Victoria's
cervical screening communications and recruitment strategy.
Provides resources for women in languages other than English.
Retrieved September 23, 2005, from http://www.papscreen.org/ps/v_health/hp_reso_lang.htm
Patient
Education Resources for Clinicians (Oregon Health and Science
University). Web sources for patient education handouts,
links to both English and non-English sites. Retrieved May
19, 2005, from http://www.ohsu.edu/library/patiented/links.shtml
Population
Health Division. (2002). Provides general information
regarding smoking and quitting in Vietnamese. Retrieved September
26, 2005, from http://www.quitnow.info.au/nesb/vietnamese.html
Queensland
Health- Multicultural Health Resources includes Cultural
Diversity Package, Multicultural and Language Service Policies,
Handbook on Muslim Patients. Retrieved September 17, 2004,
from
http://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/default.asp
Click on multicultral health.
Resources
for a diverse community. From the Alzheimer Society Toronto,
this site provides information on Alzheimers in multiple languages
such as Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.
Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://www.asmt.org/nonenginfokitLtoZ.htm
The 24
Languages Project funded by the National Library of Medicine.
This project is in partnership with the Utah Department of
Health, the Immunization Action Coalition, AAPCHO, and many
others to improve access to health materials in mutliple languages.
Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://medstat.med.utah.edu/24languages
SAMHSA's
NCADI Library, as part of one of the largest repositories
of alcohol and drug use information in the world, provides
publications in different languages, including Spanish, Chinese,
Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Korean. Retrieved May 19, 2005,
from
http://store.health.org/catalog/audiences.aspx
Spanish
Cancer Resources. Links to various Information resources
on cancer in Spanish. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks5j.htm
Spanish
Patient Handouts. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://nurse-practitioners.advanceweb.com/Common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CTIID=1496
SPIRAL-Selected
Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages. SPIRAL
from Tufts University provides access to consumer health informaiton
in the following Asian languages: Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean,
Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from
http://www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/spiral
The
Stanford Health Library. Provides links and multilingual
health information. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/foreign_st.html
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
(2004). The
DASIS report: Facilities providing substance abuse treatment
in languages other than English. Retrieved September
28, 2005 from http://www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov/2k3/LanguageTX/lang.htm
Translation
protocol. Prepared by the Minnesota Department of Health,
this is a guide to translating materials for limited English-speaking
communities. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from
http://www.health.state.mn.us/communityeng/multicultural/translation.pdf
U.S.
Food and Drug Administration. FDA food and cosmetic international/foreign
language documents and videos. Retrieved September 28, 2005,
from http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/internat.html
Utah
Department of Health. Provides information about diabetes
in multiple languages. Retrived October 12, 2005, from http://www.health.utah.gov/diabetes/resourcesmain/edmulticultmanuals.htm
Vermont
Department of Health. Refugee Health Program- Translated
Infectious Disease Fact Sheets. Retrieved May 19, 2005, from
http://healthyvermonters.info/cph/refugee/factsheets.shtml
Victorian
Government Health Information. Provides disease fact sheets
in languages other than English. Retrieved September 26, 2005,
from http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/diseases/language.htm
Vietnamese
Community Health Promotion Project. Provides health information
in Vietnamese. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from
http://www.suckhoelavang.org/main.html
Virginia
Department of Health. Provides a listing of organizations
that provide TB educational materials in a variety of languages
other than English. Retrieved October 12, 2005, from http://www.vdh.state.va.us/epi/tb/othedmat.htm
Washington
State Department of Health. Offers several publications
and materials in languages other than English. Retrieved September
29, 2005, from http://www.doh.wa.gov/translated_materials.htm
Weill
Cornell Medical Library.Consumer Health Resources in Languages
Other than English, Weill Cornell Medical Library. Retrieved
May 19, 2005, from
http://library.med.cornell.edu/Library/HTML/consumer.html
World
Education. A list of health education materials in languages
other than English. Retrieved September 28, 2005, from http://www.worlded.org/us/health/lincs/index_language_n_z.html
©Jacquelyn
Coughlan, May 2005
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