Translations / Non-English Resources

Multiple Language Resources

• SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
  A joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library to provide consumer information in Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian.
  
  
• The 24 Languages Project
  Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages. This is a project of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, in partnership with the Utah Department of Health, the Immunization Action Coalition, AAPCHO, and many others to improve access to health materials in multiple languages. Has brochures and sound recordings in Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, German, Haitian, Creole, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, and Vietnamese.
  
  
• Asian Language Materials
  From the National Institutes of Health, Office of Asian American Health. Languages include Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Filipino/Tagalog, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, South Asian (Asian Indian), Thai, and Vietnamese.
  
  
• Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials
  From the American Cancer Society, materials in Chinese, Korean, & Vietnamese
  
  
• Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse
  A central access point for information on multicultural health in Australia. Cultural competence, refugee health, nutrition, sexual health, drugs and alcohol, mental health, ageing, and disability are just some the issues encompassed by the Clearinghouse's brief.
  
  
• ECHO (Emergency and Community Health Outreach)
  Exists to ensure that people with limited English proficiency receive life-saving health and safety information—in some of the languages they understand best. Languages supported include Cambodian, Lao, Vietnamese, Hmong, and Spanish.
  
  
• Health Information Translations
  Translations included Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Portuguese, Brazilian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
  
  
• Multicultural Health Communication Service
  They produce multilingual health resources, Guidelines, Protocols and Policies. Research, communication and social marketing campaigns targeting people from cultural and linguistic, diverse backgrounds (CALD). Provide advice to other agencies and workers undertaking research with CALD communities. Including Guidelines for health staff producing multilingual information, guidelines for checking a translation, and Guidelines for the Production of Multilingual Health Resources.
  
  
• Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
  National collaborative partnership, managed by refugee health professionals, whose objective is to provide quality multilingual, health information resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees.
  
  
• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Translations
  Provides translated material
  
  
  

Single Language Resources

Chinese

• Chinese Community Health Resource Center
  Believes one way to effectively promote wellness in the Chinese community is to provide health information that is linguistically and culturally sensitive to the community.
  
  
• Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians & 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 and helps English-speaking clinicians to communicate with their Chinese-speaking patients by having online access to medical literature in the patient's language.

Spanish

• Spanish Cancer Information Materials
  From the American Cancer Society
  
  
• NICHCY en español
  NICHCY is a national information center that provides information on disabilities and disability related issues, focusing on children and youth with disabilities.
  
  
• Medline Plus - Informacion de Salud de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina
  MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.
  
  
• National Institutes of Health - Institutos Nacionales de la Salud
  The NIH is the primary Federal agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Helping to lead the way toward important medical discoveries that improve people's health and save lives, NIH scientists investigate ways to prevent disease as well as the causes, treatments, and even cures for common and rare diseases. Composed of 27 Institutes and Centers, the NIH provides leadership and financial support to researchers in every state and throughout the world.
  

Hmong

• Hmong Health Education Network
  The goal of HmongHealth.org and the Hmong Health Education Network is to provide access to health information for Hmong people and those who provide health, education and social services to the Hmong community. The website is managed by the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Assistance Association (WAHMA), with funding for the Hmong Health Education Network from the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Cambodian/Khmer

• Cambodian Community Health 2010 Project
  established in 1999 to address the health care needs of the Cambodian population as well as to help eliminate health disparities in the areas of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. A strong and resilient coalition of Lowell health agencies are implementing actions to modify risk behaviors, educate health care providers regarding the health disparities in the Cambodian community, and provide educational and health promotional activities in preventing and managing diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.

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