Multilingual Health Resources

Resources Providing Information on Multiple Health Topics

Philly Health Info
http://www.phillyhealthinfo.org
Philly Health Info contains offers resources on a variety of health topics, including specific diseases and conditions, health and wellness, and medication information.  Resources can be searched by language or by topic.  Health topics range from information about cancer and hypertension to foot health and alternative medicine.  Materials are provided in Amharic, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, French, Gujarati, Haitian, Hindi, Igbo, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tigrinya, Urdu, Vietnamese and Yoruba.

NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/health-public-affairs/mhcs/publications/langindex.html
The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service website contains information on a wide variety of health topics.  The website is searchable by language or topic, and can be used to find information on topics including disease, nutrition, mental health, men’s and women’s health needs, and health services.  When searching by language, you can choose from: Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Farsi/Persian, Filipino/Tagalog, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Koori, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Macedonian, Maltese, Maori, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pashto, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Tamil, Tatum, Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, or Vietnamese.  By clicking on a particular language, you are given a sub-list by topic of health resources available in that language.

Women’s Health Resources in Other Languages
http://www.4woman.gov/languages/
This website created by the Department of Health and Human Services contains a variety of health information in Spanish and Chinese.  While the site is directed at women’s health concerns, many of the topics covered are important for men’s health as well.  Some of these concerns are:  healthy aging, stroke, diabetes, breastfeeding, healthy pregnancy, stress, healthy diet, blood pressure, and obesity.

EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network
http://www.eurasiahealth.org/index.jsp?sid=1&id=3542&pid=3540
The EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network website has a multilingual library in which you can search for the specific health issues in which you are interested.  This site works much like a library catalogue, where you enter a specific keyword and subject. These resources are available in languages that are usually hard to find:  Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek.

EthnoMed
http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/
EthnoMed contains extensive information about different health topics in a variety of languages.  Some topics covered are cancer, cold and cough, blood, diabetes, fever, hypertension, mental health and more.  Resources are available in Amharic, Cambodian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese, depending on the particular topic.

Resources Providing Information about Specific Health Topics

 Heart Diseases and Conditions
http://www.heartfoundation.com.au/index.cfm?page=185
Created by the Heart Foundation, this website has information about what a heart attack is, how to recognize the signs, and what to do when someone is having a heart attack.  The information is available in Arabic, Vietnamese, Croatian, Chinese, Polish, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Spanish, and Russian.

United States Food and Drug Administration, Office of Women’s Health: My Medicines
http://www.fda.gov/womens/taketimetocare/mymeds.html
The FDA offers information in English, Spanish, Khmer (Cambodian), Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Polish, Samoan, Tagalog, Thai, and Vietnamese on how to keep track of taking medicines.  Also included is a chart to write in the names of medications and when to take them.

Resources for Speakers of Specific Languages

Materials in Asian Languages

Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL) http://www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/spiral/ An excellent resource, the Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages website contains a wide range of information about AIDS, asthma, bone and joint care, different types of cancer, children and teen issues, dental health, diabetes, domestic violence, exercise, eye care, foot care, heart care, hepatitis, the flu, taking medications, men’s & women’s health, mental health, nutrition, senior health, SARS, and more. This information is available in the following languages: Chinese, Khmer  (Cambodian), Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. 

Materials in Spanish

US Food and Drug Administration, Spanish-Language Brochures
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/lowlit/spanlow.html This webpage was created by the FDA, and contains easy to read information in Spanish.  Some of the topics covered include:  helping arthritis treatment to work, eating well as we age, how to give children medicine, what to do for colds and flu, eating foods that are good for the heart, diabetes, medicine and older adults, hearing loss, choosing medical treatment, and more.

Healthfinder
http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol/
This database contains health information on various topics in Spanish.  Some topics include: nutrition, diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, Medicare and more.  The website can be accessed in Spanish or English.

University of Utah Health Sciences Center: Patient Education Materials in Spanish
http://uuhsc.utah.edu/pated/handouts/indexspan.cfm
The University of Utah Health Sciences Center has created this database of health information in Spanish.  Topics included are cancer/BMT, cardiology, diabetes, infectious diseases, neural/ muscular/ skeletal/ orthopedic, nutrition care, OB/GYN/women's health, parenting - child pediatrics, skin care/wound care, and poison control.