Multiple Topics

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
  
  Spanish Language Guides for patients, women's Health Issues and treatments for high cholesterol.



• The National Network of Libraries of Medicine
  
  Consumer health information in Spanish.



• http://www.cuidadodesalud.gov
  
  It helps Spanish-speaking residents to identify affordable and comprehensive health care coverage options.



• 24 Languages Project 
  
  The 24 Languages Project was founded in 2000 as a joint endeavor of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library and the Utah Department of Health, to digitize translated consumer health brochures for online access. The 24 Languages Project also provides information in audio formats as well as PDF documents.

• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Facts for Families 
  
  Available in English, Espanol, Deutsch, Malaysian, Polish, Icelandic and Arabic
   
• Chinese Community Health Resource Center
  
  Health education materials in Chinese
   
• Culture, Health and Literacy 
  
  An addendum to the Health and Literacy Compendium with a focus on issues of culture and multi-lingual materials.
   
• Ethnomed Patient Education Resources     
  
  Patient education materials are available in a variety of languages.
   
• Exchange: Multilingual Health Resources
  
  A collaborative web site offering multilingual health materials on various topics
   
• Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective - Online
  
  In English, Dutch, French and Spanish
   
• Health Information Translations  
  
  Series of documents on several topics to help health care professionals teach health education to patients with limited English skills.  Available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.  Each document contains an English translation.
   
• Healthy Roads Media
  
  In English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Bosnian, Russian, Hmong, Khmer, Liberian and Tagalog.  The health information on this website is available in four ways: multimedia (pictures and sounds), sound, written and web-page video.
   
• Hmong Health Education Network
  
  Various health information in Hmong
   
• Language Resources and Services of University of Michigan
  
  It has many links to language resources, interpreter services and language lines.
   
• Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse 
  
  It provides free health promotion materials with a variety of languages (depend on the topic)
   
• Maternal and Child Health Library Non-English Materials and Resources
  
  The MCH Library's online catalog, MCHLine®, includes materials for consumers and professionals in numerous languages other than English, and the Organizations Database identifies additional sources for these materials.
   
• Medical Leadership Council on Cultural Proficiency
  
  Medical Leadership Council on Cultural Proficiency has unveiled a database designed to assist physicians and others in providing improved language access and culturally competent health care. With more than 350 initial entries, the searchable, internet-based, free-to-the-public database includes contact information for interpreters, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, public health departments and others that provide health information and services in languages other than English. Users, including physicians, nurses, social service workers, patients and
  the general public, can search for listings by county, by language, or by type of service. Services and materials address various topics, including diabetes and nutrition, in languages ranging from Arabic to Vietnamese.
   
• MedlinePlus - Health Information in Multiple Languages
  
  The new collection contains over 2,500 links to information in more than 40 languages and covers nearly 250 Health Topics.
   
• Minority Health Concern - National Network of Libraries of Medicine: MidContinental Region
   
• Multi-Cultural Educational Services
  
  Multilingual health and safety education materials
   
• KAP's Multi-Language Initiative
  
  Multilingual information
   
• Multilingual Health Information for Refugees and Their Health Providers
  
  Multilingual information for health providers, refugees, and asylees in print, audio, and video formats grouped for easy access.
   
• My Medicine of U.S. Food and Drug Administration 
  
  Its web page has links to multiple language brochures.
   
• National Institute on Aging 
  
  In Spanish
   
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine Multilingual Health Information
  
  It has links to several government and community-based organization websites offering health information in Spanish and other languages.
   
• New South Wales Multicultural Health Communication Service
  
  Over 400 health publications in many languages are available on this site. The site links users to multilingual materials created by Multicultural Health Communication Services as well as resources produced by others.
   
• New York Online Access to Health
  
  Health topic links and materials in English and Spanish
   
• NSW Multicultural Health Communication Resources
  
  This Australian website provides all the brochures in 60 languages.
   
• Point-to-Talk Booklets
  
  American Hospital Association award winning Point-to-Talk Booklets by Massachusetts General Hospital Medical Interpreter Services.  19 languages available.  
   
• S*P*I*R*A*L (Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages)
  
  This site contains patient information on a variety of health topics in a variety of Asian languages. You can search the site by topic or language.
   
• U.S. Committee For Refugees and Immigrants Healthy Living Toolkit
  
  Various Health Education Brochures are now available in Haitian Creole, Farsi, Spanish, Swahili and Hmong, in addition to Arabic, Vietnamese, English, Somali, Kirundi, Russian, Karen and Burmese. French, Amharic, and Bosnian translations will be available soon. The brochures are available to download free of charge. The topics include HIV/AIDS Prevention and Stigma, STDs, Cold & Flu, TB, Stop Smoking, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Obesity, Child Obesity, PAP Test, and Mammograms, Menstrual Cycle, Patients Rights and Emergency Room.
   
• Utah Department of Health Center for Multicultural Health
  
  It provides health education materials in many languages to assist health professionals in communicating with people who don't speak English or have a low English proficiency.
   
• The Virtual Body
  
  It provides a guided virtual tour of the major components of the human body in both English and Spanish.
   
• Weill Cornell Medical Library 
  
  Consumer health and patient education resources in languages other than English
   
• Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Multilingual Publications
   
• http://www.u-write.com/foreign.shtml
  
  This website links to a variety of patient education materials in many languages.
   
• http://www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/bilingua/index.stm
  
  This Canadian source offers many health subjects in Chinese, Farsi, French, Punjabi, Spanish and Vietnamese.
   
• http://library.med.nyu.edu/patient/hicup/
  
  Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients Physicians and the Public. The HICUP web site provides electronic access to quality patient education documents and consumer health information written in Chinese. The HICUP web site also provides links to other Chinese language health information web sites.
   
• http://medinforus.homestead.com/PInformation.html
  
  In Russian
   
• http://www.journeyworks.com/products.asp?dept=121
  
  In Spanish
   
• http://www.cdc.gov/spanish
  
  This site is a Spanish version of the CDC website, and includes all the CDC information on a wide variety of common health concerns.  You can also find information in other eight languages.
   
• http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/
  
  In Spanish on many health issues
   
• http://hispanicHealth.info
  
  Developed by the National Hispanic Medical Association as a portal to share key information that can improve the quality of healthcare delivered to Hispanic populations
   
• http://www.4women.gov/espanol/
  
  In Spanish and organized by health category
   
• http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/spanlow.html
  
  In Spanish with varieties of health subjects
   
• http://intermountainhealthcare.org/xp/public/spanish/
  
  In Spanish
   
• http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/Units/Health_Ed/specpop/translated_topics.htm
  
  McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have translated some of patient information handouts (13 topics) into eight languages that include: Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. They also have four International Medical Terminology Handbooks with translations that contain a list of medical terms used by health care providers and consumers available in English to Chinese, English to Japanese, English to Korean, and English to Spanish, available for purchase.
   
• http://www.who.int/topics/en/index.html
  
  The pages contain links to WHO projects, initiatives, activities, information products, and contacts, organized by health and development topics in six languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.
   
• http://www.plainlanguage.gov
  
  It is a website with information and tips for improving communications; it has tools, resources and examples from many areas including government.
   
• https://www.healtheducationanswers.com/HealthCenterHome.jsp
  
  Health Education Answers in English and Spanish
   
• http://www.mcedservices.com/medex2/medex2.htm
  
  These interactive health literacy exercises provide practice in 3 areas: Understanding food and reading a nutrition label, understanding basic information about diabetes and basic information about high blood pressure. They have introductions spoken and printable in English, Arabic, Hmong, Somali and Spanish.