This web page provides links to information resources and other media that have been translated into community languages for understanding of
health-related information into native languages.
Information Resources
Helping
Older Hispanic Patients Communicate With Healthcare Providers Booklet
Información en Español
(Health Information in Spanish from AHRQ)
MedInfoRus
(Medical Information in Russian)
MEDLINEplus
español
The
Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition [español]
Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario) Multilingual West Nile Virus Fact
Sheets
available in 23
languages
Multicultural
DrugInfo
(available in 49 Community Languages)
Multicultural
Palliative Care Guidelines
Multilingual
Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European
Languages
New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH) [español]
The
Providers Guide to Quality & Culture
(basic information about some regions and ethnic groups)
Refugee
Health Information Network (RHIN)
S*P*I*R*A*L:
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
Translated
BC HealthFiles
(health information in English and 5 languages)
Translated
Health Forms and Documents
Helping Older Hispanic Patients Communicate With Healthcare Providers Booklet
This Spanish-language publication from the National
Institute on Aging helps older Hispanic
consumers communicate effectively with their doctor and other health care
providers. It also assists in helping them choose a doctor, prepare for an
appointment, work with an interpreter, discuss sensitive health issues and find
additional health information in Spanish. Adobe
Acrobat Reader required
to read and/or print the topic document.
Información en Español (from AHRQ)
This enhanced health information website from AHRQ now includes audio and video in Spanish on a wide range of health care issues.
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. You will find collection of links to medical websites,
electronic publications, directories, and other resources available online in
Russian.
MEDLINEplus
español
MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine's consumer-friendly health Web
site, now speaks Spanish! These information pages are designed to direct you to
resources containing information that will help you research your health
questions in MEDLINE along with links to numerous consumer health resources. A
wonderful feature of these pages is the Interactive
Health Tutorials which use animated
graphics. Each of the tutorials explains a procedure or condition in
easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the tutorial.
The
Merck Manual of Medical Information - Home Edition [español]
Contains selected full text sections of the
print version in Spanish.
Ministry
of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario) Multilingual West Nile Virus Fact Sheets
West Nile Virus, or WNV, is a potentially serious illness.Though a seasonal
epidemic in North America that flares up in the summer and continues into the
fall, it is important to recognize symptoms and attempt to prevent its spread.
There are now 23 languages available!
Multicultural
DrugInfo
This important information for parents and their children is available in 49
Community Languages. This is a project of the Australian
Drug Foundation.
Multicultural
Palliative Care Guidelines
The Palliative
Care Council of South Australia created these
insightful care guides addressing the following “language groups”: Arabic,
Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean,
Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish,
Turkish and Vietnamese.
Multilingual
Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Eight European Languages
This resource commissioned by The
European Commission contains the electronic
form of eight glossaries, in which you can find 1830 technical and popular
medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages : English, Dutch,
French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish.
New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH) [español]
A collaboration among various New York City public
entities that aims to provide high quality full-text health information for Spanish-speaking
consumers that is accurate, timely, relevant and unbiased.
The
Providers Guide to Quality & Culture
It would be useful to have basic information on the culture, health strengths,
and health challenges of people from some of the regions and ethnic groups of
the world. This resource is an integral part of Management
Sciences for Health's Electronic Resource Center,
which is funded in part by the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
Refugee
Health Information Network (RHIN)
RHIN is national collaborative partnership that has created a database of
quality multilingual, public health resources for those providing care to
resettled refugees. Use the
"search our site box" to lookup documents,
forms, news and related links from RHIN database.
S*P*I*R*A*L:
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
Provides consumer information specifically in the languages of Chinese, Hmong,
Korean, Cambodian/Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese and Laotian. Start your information
search either by topic
or language.
This is a joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts
University Health Sciences Library, both located in New England.
Translated
BC HealthFile Topics
A number of BC
HealthFile topics have been translated into
other languages, including Chinese,
French,
Punjabi,
,
and Farsi.
To view translated BC HealthFiles, click on your language choice. Adobe
Acrobat Reader required
to read and/or print the topic document.
Translated
Health Forms and Documents
The Foundation
for Healthy Communities in New Hampshire
created this new tool for New Hampshire health care providers to easily
find translated health forms and documents. They recommend that the translated
forms in 10 languages be used with their English counterparts to ensure that all
parties are aware of what is being communicated. Each translated form also is
posted in English. An unique facet of this tool is that the documents are posted, when possible, in a Word format in order to allow for easy customizing.
Page Last Updated: October 15, 2009