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Health Materials in Languages other than English Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan, M.S., M.L.S.
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Alzheimer Society of Toronto online catalogue. (n.d.). From the Alzheimer Society Toronto, this site provides information on Alzheimer’s/dementia in 40 languages such as Russian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. (Click on enter online catalogue, search by keyword and language of resource) Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.asmt.org/lib_onlineCatalogue.htm |
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American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. (2008). Facts for Families in English, Spanish, Dutch, Malaysian, Polish, Icelandic, Arabic and Hebrew. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/facts_for_families |
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American Academy of Family Physicians - AAFP. (2008). Health information in multiple languages. Information available in Arabic, Cambodian-Khmer, Chinese, deaf and hard of hearing, French, German, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Thai, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/clinical/ publichealth/ptpops/languagehlthres/manylangauges.html |
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American Cancer Society - ACS. (2008). Asian Pacific Islander cancer education materials tool. Provides materials in Bangla/Bengali, Chamorro, Chinese, English, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Kosraean, Samoan, Tongan, Vietnamese, and Yapese. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.cancer.org/acmmain/(0galt045sur5hq451vokhd45)/DefaultACS.aspx |
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American Red Cross. (2008). Disaster services - Alternate language materials. Materials available in Arabic,Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_504_,00.html |
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Asian and Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence. (n.d.). Ethnic specific information. Information about domestic violence issues available in Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong & Laotian, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 15, 2008, from http://www.apiahf.org/apidvinstitute/GenderViolence/specific.htm |
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Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health. (n.d.). A website from the FDA, Los Angeles District, for women seeking cancer screening services. In Samoan, Cambodian, Laotian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.apanet.org/~fdala |
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Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence. (n.d.). Help Card. Available in Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.atask.org/ |
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Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations - AACHPO. (2005). AAPI diabetes-related resource sheet. Available in Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.aapcho.org/site/aapcho/content.php?type=6&id=16 |
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BC (British Columbia) Health Guide. (2008). Translated BC healthfiles. Available in Chinese, Farsi, French, Punjabi, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 7, 2008 from http://www.bchealthguide.org/healthfiles/bilingua/index.stm |
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BJC Health. (2009). HIPAA Privacy. Languages available: Bosnian, Dari, Farsi, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, Spanish, & Vietnamese. Retrieved March 10, 2009 from http://www.bjc.org/bjc_content.aspx?id=2194 |
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Breast Cancer Network of Strength. (2008). Feel the network of strength. Available in Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 10, 2008 from http://www.networkofstrength.org/ |
British Red Cross with advice and funding from the Department of Health. (2004). Emergency multilingual phrasebook. Covers common medical questions translated into 36 languages. Retrieved June 25, 2008, from http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/ Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4073230 |
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BRYCS - Bridging Refugee Youth and Children's Services. (2008). Targeted resources for professionals - Multilingual resources. Available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, French, German, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Nuer, Oromo, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.brycs.org/brycs_topics.htm#multilingual |
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California Dental Association. (2008). Patient Education Tools. In Spanish, Hmong, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.cda.org/page/patient_education_tools |
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California Department of Health Services - CDHS. (2004). Health publications finder. Growing up healthy publications for various ages of young children available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. (12 pages). Retrieved March 3, 2009 from http://www.chcf.org/documents/consumer/ChildHealthSupplement.pdf |
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California Diabetes Program. (2008). ABC's of diabetes management. Available in Arabic, Chinese, Laotian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.caldiabetes.org/content_display.cfm?contentID=778&CategoriesID=75 |
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California Health Literacy Initiative. (2008). Multicultural and multilingual health information. Provides links to multicultural and multilingual sites and specific links to African American, Asian, and Latino populations. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://cahealthliteracy.org/rc/5.html |
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Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs, WelcomeHere (2008). Translations of five parent resource sheets in nine international languages: Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, Simplified Chinese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.welcomehere.ca/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=692 |
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The Cancer Council Victoria. (2008). Australian site provides resources about cancer in 17 languages. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.cancervic.org.au/other_languages |
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Cancer Index - Spanish Cancer Resources. (2003). Links to various information resources on cancer in Spanish. Retrieved June 5, 2008, from http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks5j.htm |
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Cancerbackup. (2003). Information available in other languages. Factsheets available in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu. Videotapes available in Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, & Urdu. Interpreting services available in above 5 languages and in arabic, Cantonese, French, Greek, Polish, Turkis, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk /Resourcessupport/Cancerbackupsservices/Publications/Otherlanguages |
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CancerIndex. (2003). Links to cancer resources in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Protuguese, Spanish, and Other. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks13.htm |
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CaNetiq - HotPeaches. (2008). International domestic violence information in languages A-Z and abuse agencies list. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang |
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CARI - Center for African Refugees and Immigrants. (2006). Educational brouchures in Amharic, Arabic, English, French, Somali, and Tigrinya. Retrieved May 15, 2008 from http://www.ecdc-cari.org/pubs.asp#edbrochures |
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Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies. (2007). Where can I find health education resources in different languages and cultures? Provides links to general information, information in Spanish, information for Asian-Pacific Islanders, Hatain-Creole links, and Bosnian links, September 29, 2008, from http://captus.samhsa.gov/northeast/resources/faqs/faq76.cfm |
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The Center for Victims of Torture. (n.d.). Torture of war trauma brochures. Available in English, Bosnian, and Somali. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.cvt.org/main.php/ResourceCenter/ProviderResources/RefugeeServices |
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Center for Weight and Health at the University of California. (n.d.). Reducing risk of childhood overweight among immigrant families from Asia. Materials in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Lao, Vietnamese, and English. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/cwh/activities/asian_lang_publications.shtml |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC. (2008). National Diabetes Education Program. Resources about diabetes in English and Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese & Hawaiian, Tongan, Chuukese, Marshallese, and Ilocano. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndep/lang.htm |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC. (n.d.). Emergency preparedness and response - Evacuee education materials. This site provides information in French, Lao, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, among other languages on various topics. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/printindex.asp |
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC. (n.d.). National Prevention Information Network. Asian language-based publications focusing on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in Tagalog, Khmer, Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish, English. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/toolkit/api_resources.html |
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The Centre of Multicultural Youth Issues. (2008). Publications and resources: Translated and community info. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, English, Pashtu, Persian (Farsi), Samoan, Serbian, Somali, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 10, 2008 from http://www.cmy.net.au/TranslatedandCommunityInfo |
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City of New Orleans (Louisiana). (n.d.). Emergency preparedness: Foreign language documents in Spanish and Vietnamese. Retrieved May 15, 2008 from http://www.cityofno.com /pg-46-40-foreign-language-documents.aspx |
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Communicate Health. (2007). Multilingual appointment card. (You can fill in a card with the patient’s name and doctor’s name). Available in Albanian, Ahmeraic, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French Farsi, Fullah, Gujarati, Hausa, Hindi, Kurdish, Lingala, Lithuanian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushtu, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Singhalese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Twi, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Yoroba. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.communicate-health.org.uk/card/ |
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Community Health Care Association of New York State - CHCANYS. (2006). Resources to distribute (For individuals and communties). Page translates into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish and provides pandemic flu information in Spanish. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.chcanys.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=ep_todistribute&category=Main&search=resources%20to%20distribute |
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Cross Cultural Health Care Program - CCHCP. (2008). Bilingual medical glossaries - 2008 catalog. Available in Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Amharic, Somali, Tigrigna, Cambodian Khmer, Chinese Mandarin, Korean, and Lao. (4 pages). Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.xculture.org/files/GlossaryCatalog.pdf |
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Dental ResourceNet. (2000). Provides dental information for patients in 17 languages including Arabic, Bosnian, Malay, Vietnamese, and Russian. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.dentalcare.com/soap/patient/english/menu_archive.htm |
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Department of Health and Human Services. (n.d.). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Influenza Information in Other Languages in Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Tagalog. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.cdc.gov/flu/languages.htm |
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Diabetes Australia. (2008). Multilingual - Diabetes translated resources. Information in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Greek,Italian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.diabetesaustralia.com.au/en/Resources/Multilingual/ |
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Diabetes Monitor - Diabetes on the web: Websites Multilinguisticos. (2007). This website links to diabetes resources from throughout the world. Provides information in Arabic, Belgian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German,Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.diabetesmonitor.com/other-10.htm |
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Diversity Health Institute Clearinghouse (DHI). (n.d.). Search for multicultural health resources and translated health information in over 50 languages including health and settlement information translated in a range of African languages. Also contains information about the variety of communities settling in Australia, Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.dhi.gov.au/clearinghouse/resources.htm |
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Drug Info Clearinghouse. (2005). Multicultural druginfo - Resources by language. Multiple language links in 49 different languages. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.druginfo.adf.org.au/ multicultural/browse.asp?ContainerID=multicultural_resources_language |
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Duke Area Health Education Center. (n.d.). Multimedia Medical Spanish & English translator. (medical words and phrases). Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://polyglot.topsailmultimedia.com/polyglot.html |
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Eastern Health. (2007). Cue cards in community languages. Pictures and translations in a 12 page document with 20 cards per page or a 55 page document with four cards per page. Available in 58 different languages. Retrieved September 3, 2008, from http://www.easternhealth.org.au/language/cueCards/cards.asp |
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Emergency and Community Health Outreach - ECHO. (n.d.). ECHO TV. Broadcasts through Twin Cities Public Television in Minnesota in English, Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese about health issues and emergency preparedness. Retrieved July 10, 2008, from http://www.echominnesota.org/index.cfm/p/tv/ |
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Equip. West Midlands Library Services Development Unit ,UK. (2008). Provides links to Information in languages other than English and for ethnic groups. Choose from an extensive list of medical topics in several languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian-Bosanski, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Lingala, Macedonian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.equip.nhs.uk/language.html |
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Ethnicity Online. (n.d.). Patient information: Welcome. Contains a library of resources that have been translated into Bengali/Sylheti, Farsi, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, & Urdu . Retrieved September 16, 2008, 2008 from http://www.ethnicityonline.net/patient_information_welcome.htm |
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Ethnologue. (2005). Rundi: A language of Burundi. Retrieved September 29, 2008, from http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_language.asp?code=RUD |
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Ethnologue. (2008). Ehtnologue: Languages of the world. Reference work cataloging all of the 6,912 known living languages. Retrieved November 20, 2008 from http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp |
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Ethnomed. University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center. (2008). Patient education resources- All languages. Provides information on a variety of topics in languages such as Spanish, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Amharic, Somali, Tigrigna, Chinese, Oromo, and Russian. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/ |
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Eurasia Health Knowledge Network. (2006). Resources for health professionals and patients. Translation of UMLS concepts into Russian by means of internet technology. Retrieved June 25, 2008, from http://www.eurasiahealth.org/health/resources/82761/ |
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EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network. (2006). Search the database of health education materials on the topics of TB, HIV/AIDS, women’s health among others that are available in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.eurasiahealth.org/eng/health/resources/ |
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Federal Emergency Management Agency - FEMA. (2008). Other languages. Cambodian, Croatian, French, Haitian-Creole, Simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, and Vietnamese. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.fema.gov/media/resources/languages.shtm |
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Flashcard Exchange. (2008). Provides electronic flashcards related to body parts and medical conditions in Spanish. Retrieved August 30, 2007, from http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/523471 |
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Foodsafety.gov. (2008). Gateway to government food safety information - Other language documents. Information and links regarding various food safety practices in Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fsglang.html |
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Genetics Education Center. (2008). Genetic conditions/rare conditions support groups and information in languages other than English. Provides links in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://www.kumc.edu/gec/support/internat.html |
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Georgia State University. (n.d.). Provides nutrition education for Americans. Food pyramids and four similarly-themed handouts are available in 37 languages. Retrieved June 16, 2008 from http://monarch.gsu.edu/multiculturalhealth |
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Hawaii AIDS Education and Training Center - AIDS Education Project. (n.d.). Early detection is the best protection - Pap smear and cervical cancer (various languages). Available in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Lao, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/links_PapSmearCervicalEarlyDetectLang.htm |
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Health and Safety Executive - HSE. (2008). Other languages. Information, publications, and telephone interpreting services offered in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Farsi, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Welsh. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.hse.gov.uk/languages/index.htm |
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Health Canada. (2008). Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, and Urdu. Retrieved October 1, 2008 from http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide-aliment /order-commander/guide_trans-trad-eng.php |
Health Industry Collaboration Effort - ICE. (n.d.). Better communication, better care: Provider tools to care for diverse populations. Provides resources to communicate across language barriers. (56 pages). Retrieved September 16, 2008, from http://www.iceforhealth.org/library/documents/ICE_C&L_provider_Tool_Kit.10-06.pdf
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Health Industry Collaboration Effort - ICE. (n.d.). Common sentences in multiple languages (English-Spanish-Vietnamese-Chinese). (8 pages). Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/TheNetwork/Portals/3/CommonSentences.pdf |
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Health Information and Education, California Family Health Council. (2008). Multilingual materials. Most pamphlets available in English and Spanish, others available in Chinese and Asian languages on abuse, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases. Available for purchase. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://epahealth.stores.yahoo.net/muma.html |
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Health Information Translations, Ohio State University Medical Center, Mount Carmel Health & OhioHealth. (2005). Colonoscopy with goLytely bowel prep. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. (8 pages). Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/colonoscopy_with_golytely_bowel_prep_655949.php |
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Health Information Translations. (2008). Health information translations: A partnership for health care education for limited English proficiency patients. Quality translations in American Sign Language, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Portuguese Brazilian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/about.php |
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Health Sciences Library System. (2008). Patient Education. HSLS provides patient education through links to over 200 brouchures and pamphlets in multiple languages. Retrieved October 1, 2008 from http://www.hsls.pitt.edu/guides/chi/general/pt_edu |
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Health Translations Directory. (2007). Translated health information. 10,302 multilingual health resources from the Victorian Government (Australia). Available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Macedonian, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandarin, Maori, Oromo, Pashtu, Polish, Portuguese, Pukapuka, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Tetum, Thai, Tigrnya, Tongon, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au |
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Healthfinder.U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). A guide to reliable consumer health and human services information in English and Spanish. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.healthfinder.gov |
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Healthy Roads Media. (2008). Topic - Infants and Children. Information available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Hmong, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Liberian English, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/topics/children.htm |
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Healthy Roads Media. (2008). Topic - Nutrition. Information available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Hmong, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Liberian English, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/topics/nutrition.htm |
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Healthy Roads Media. (2008). Languages. This site contains free audio, written and multimedia health information available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Hmong, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Liberian English, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese on many health topics such as abuse, smoking, emergencies, etc. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/languages.htm |
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Henry Ford Health System - Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. (2008). Multilingual Health Information. This site provides links to various websites that offer materials in 42 languages. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from http://www.henryford.com/body_nologin.cfm?id=47557 |
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Hepatitis C Support Project. (2008). Fact sheets. HCV Advocate - Hepatitis C Information provided in English, German, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 1, 2008 from http://www.hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/factsheets.asp |
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Hmong Health Education Network. (2007). Hmong health website. Provides access to health information for Hmong people and providers of health, education and social services to the Hmong community in both English and Hmong languages. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.hmonghealth.org/ |
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Illinois State Board of Education. (n.d.). A Guide to Your Children’s Schools in Arabic, Bosnian, Russian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/refugee_services.htm |
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Immunization Action Coalition. (2008). Improving immunization practices: A collection of useful resources to health care professionals provide vaccines appropriately and efficiently. Some information available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hmong and Turkish. Retrieved October 1, 2008, from http://www.immunize.org/izpractices |
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Immunization Action Coalition. (2008). Vaccine information statements. Listed in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, French, German, Haitian-Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Ilokano, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Korean, Laotian, Marshallese, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese languages and by vaccine. Retrieved October 1, 2008 from http://www.immunize.org/vis/vis_english.asp |
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Immunization Action Coalition. (n.d.). A Quick chart of vaccine-preventable diseases in multiple languages. In English, Bosnian, Croatian, Polish, Romanian, Russian/Ukranian, Serbian, Slovak, and Somali. (2 pages). Retrieved October 1, 2008 from http://www.immunize.org/izpractices/p5122.pdf |
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International Health Education Alliance - IHEA. (2008). Languages of IHEA publications. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hmong, Hindi, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Kannadi, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Lugandan, Malay, Marathi, Nepali, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Singhali, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetian, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Yoruba. Retrieved November 11, 2008 from http://www.ihea.info/multicultural_health_education/ |
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The Joanna Briggs Institute. (n.d.). Promoting and supporting best practice. Available in Italian, Japanese, Romanian, Spanish, and Thai. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/best_practice.php |
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Kern Resource Center. (2003). Spanish for Health Care Workers (92 pages). Also see Punjabi for Health-Care Workers, (2005, 72 pages), and Hmong for Health-Care Workers, (March 2006, 70 pages) from this site. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.health-careers.org/resources.cfm#Special%20Populations |
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La Frontera Center, Inc. (n.d.). Emergency information / 911. Available in Kirundi and Swahili. Retrieved April 14, 2009 from http://www.brycs.org/documents/911cards.pdf |
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La Leche League International. (2007). Breastfeeding information in English, Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and Russian. Retrieved June 2 , 2008, from http://www.llli.org/resources/otherlanguages.html |
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Labor Occupational Health Program, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California at Berkeley. (2005). Multilingual health and safety resources. Available in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, French, Greek, Haitian/Creole, Hmong, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Laotian, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese. Retrieved October 23, 2008 from http://lohp.org/hsresguide/index.html |
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LaRue, C. (2004). LaRue medical literacy exercises. A series of online and printable medical literacy learning activities in English, Arabic, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish . Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.mcedservices.com/medex/medex.htm |
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Lincoln Council on Alcoholism and Drugs, Inc. (2007). Provides information in English, Arabic, Bosnian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese on parenting, alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.lcad.org/resources/inhousematerials.php |
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Maimonides Medical Center. (n.d.). HIPPA notice of privacy practices, HIV-related information, & mental health information. Available in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Creole, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Urdu, & Yiddish. Retrieved December 11, 2008 from http://www.maimonidesmed.org/clinical.cfm?id=529 |
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Massachusetts General Hospital. (2002). Point to talk is a 44 page booklet. Patients point to their own language and caregivers can read the translations available in Albanian, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo Croatian, Somali, Spanish, & Vietnamese, booklets are $5 each + S & H. Retrieved October 7, 2008 from http://www.massgeneral.org/interpreters/pointtalk.asp |
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Massachusetts General Hospital. (n.d.). English in the hospital - Point to talk. Available in Albanian, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Booklets are $5.00 each. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.massgeneral.org/interpreters/pointtalk/order_pointtalk.pdf |
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McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2005). Health Information handouts (13 topics) into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian from the multi-cultural clearinghouse website available for a fee. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/Units/Health_Ed/specpop/translated_topics.htm |
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McKinney, J. & Kurtz-Rossi, S. (2000). Culture, health, and literacy: A guide to health education materials for adults with limited English literacy skills. World Education provides materials in Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian/Khmer, Cantonese, Chinese, Farsi/Persian, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Mien, Nuer, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 16, 2008 from http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/docs/culture/indices_language.html |
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Medical News Today. (2008). Canada's food guide now available in 10 additional languages. Now available in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil and Urdu. Retrieved October 7, 2008 from http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php ?newsid=105550 |
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MedInfoRus. (n.d.). This site was 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. Provides links to medical information in Russian. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://medinforus.homestead.com/PInformation.html |
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Medline Plus. (2008). A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes for Health. Health Information in Multiple Languages. (Browse information by health topic in 44 languages). Retrieved October 7, 2008 from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html |
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Medline Plus: A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (2008). Domestic violence - Multiple languages. Information available in Arabic, Bosnian, Russian, Somali, and Spanish. Retrieved October 20, 2008 from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/domesticviolence.html |
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Migrant-Friendly Hospitals - MFH. (n.d.). Experiences, results, and tools - Cultural competence training. Evaluation instruments available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Retrieved December 2, 2008 from http://www.mfh-eu.net/public/experiences_results_tools/cct_eval_instruments.htm |
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Minnesota Council of Churches. (2003). Twin cities immigrant orientation guides. Available in English, Somali, and Spanish. (81 pages in Somali). Retrieved June 26, 2008, from http://www.diversophile.com/files/guide_so.pdf |
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Minnesota Department of Health. (2007). Refugee health provider information: Health guide for refugees in Minnesota. Available in English, Hmong, and Somali . (99 pages). Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/hcp/index.html |
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Minnesota Department of Health. (2007). Refugee Health Provider Resources: Refugee health assessment brochure in Ahmaric, Hmong, Oromo, Russian, Serbo Croatian, Somali, & Vietnamese. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/refugee/hcp/index.html |
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Minnesota Department of Health. (2008). Limited English proficiency (LEP). Site provided information and resources for working with persons with LEP. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/Language/default.htm |
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Minnesota Department of Health. (2008, April). Lead Poisoning Prevention, Fact Sheets and Brochures. Available in English, Hmong, Somali, and Spanish. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/lead/fs/index.html |
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Minnesota Department of Health. (2008, February). Patient education materials in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English, Hmong, Karen, Khmer, Laotian, Oromo, Russian. Somali, Spanish, Tibetian, Vietnamese. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/tb/brochures.html |
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Missouri Hospital Association. (2008). A listing of 650 different documents available for download in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, French and many more languages from various websites. Retrieved October 7, 2008, from http://www.healthtranslations.com/aspx/languages/default.aspx |
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Multi-Cultural Educational Services. (n.d.). An index of .pdf files involving child caregiving in Arabic, Bosnian, English, Hmong, Nuer, Russian, and Somalian. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.mcedservices.com/pdf_files/ |
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Multi-Cultural Educational Services. (n.d.). Multilingual childcare reference materials. An index of files involving child care giving in Arabic, Bosnian, Hmong, Nuer, Russian, and Somalian. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.mcedservices.com/childcare.htm |
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Multicultural HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Service - MHAHS. (2004). HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C information website. The Commonwealth of Australia provides information in Akan, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Shona, Somali, Tagalog, Thia, Turkish, & Vietnamese. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.multiculturalhivhepc.net.au/ |
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Multicultural Mental Health Australia. (n.d.). Translations. Site provides websites that contain information about mental health in other languages and a bilingual mental health professionals directory. Retrieved November 26, 2008 from http://www.mmha.org.au/translations |
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Multicultural Mental Health Australia. (n.d.). Resources databse. A search site for a multitude of mental health resources & fact sheets in Arabic, Assyrian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Greek, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, & English. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.mmha.org.au/find/resources |
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Multikulti. (n.d.). Welcome to Multikulti. Multikulti provides accessible, accurately translated advice and information in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Portuguese, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.multikulti.org.uk/ |
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MultiLingoLegal.ca. (2008). Publications by language. British Columbia's online access to Canadian multilingual legal publications. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Spanish, & Vietnamese. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.multilingolegal.ca/?fetchlanguage=1&fetchsubject=6 |
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Multnomah County Health Department, Oregon, Communicable Disease Control Section. (2008). Community Education materials by language. Resources available in English, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, & Tagalog. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.co.multnomah.or.us/health/cd/flu/index.shtml |
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National Alliance for Hispanic Health. (2008). Provides information in Spanish regarding cancer, HIV/AIDS, tobacco, immunizations, women's health and cultural proficiency. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.hispanichealth.org/publications.lasso |
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The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health. (n.d.). Materials in other languages. COSH groups are private, non-profit coalitions of labor unions, health and technical professionals, and others promoting and advocating worker health and safety. Provides training in Arabic, Bosnisn, Chinese, Croatian, English, French, Haitian Creole, Hmong, KOrean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Tagalog, Thia, & Vietnamese. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.coshnetwork.org/materials_in_other_languages.htm |
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National Diabetes Education Program - NDEP. (2007). 4 steps Asian and Pacific Islander language adaptations. Available in English, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Samoan, Tagalog, Thia, Tongan, and Vietnamese. NDEP News and Notes, 3(9). Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://ndep.nih.gov/new/NewsNotes/v3n9.htm |
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National Diabetes Education Program - NDEP. (n.d.). NDEP's publication catalog - In-Language materials. (23 pages). A variety of publications available in English and Spanish and a variety of Asian and Pacific Islander languages. Retrieved March 10, 2009 from http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/catalog.htm#PubsPop |
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National Diabetes Education Program - NDEP. (n.d.). Take care of your heart. Manage your diabetese: Blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol. Available in English, Cambodian, Chamorro, Chinese, Chuukese, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Samoan, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 26, 2008 from http://ndep.nih.gov/campaigns/TCH/TCH_materials_AsianAm.htm |
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National Diabetes Education Program. (n.d.). These diabetes resources are available in both Spanish and English. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.ndep.nih.gov |
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National Health Service (NHS). (n.d.). Sounds healthy. Provides links to various health topics in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Somali, and Urdu that can be downloaded to CD. Retrieved June 26, 2008, from http://www.soundshealthy.nhs.uk/ |
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National Institute for Literacy. (2006). The Health and Literacy Special Collection lists links to health education materials in languages other than English. Retrieved October 8, 2008, http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/health-ed-3.htm |
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National Library of Medicine. (2008). Asian-American Health. this site provides Asian multi-language materials. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/Alsouthasian.html |
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National Network of Libraries of Medicine - NNLM. (2008). Consumer health information in many languages resources. A collaboration of the NN/LM consumer outreach libraries in Arabic, Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, French, German, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, & Vietnamese. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://nnlm.gov/outreach/consumer/multi.html |
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National Prevention Information Network - NPIN. (n.d.). Materials search. Search by topic, format, and language. Materials offered in various languages including several African, Asian, & European languages, American sign language, and braille. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/search/matlSearch.aspx |
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New York School of Medicine, Center for Immigrant Health. (2004). Provides tuberculosis brochures in Bengali, Chinese, Creole, English French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tibetan, and Urdu. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/tb/brochures.html |
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New York State Department of Health. (2007) Required HIV related consent and authorization forms. Available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and many other languages. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/aids/forms/informedconsent.htm |
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New York State Department of Health. (2008). Health care proxy: Appointing your health care agent in New York State. In both English and Spanish. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/hospital/healthcareproxy/intro.htm |
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NOAH- New York Online Access to Health. (n.d.). NOAH provides bilingual access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.noah-health.org/index.html |
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NSW - New South Whales Department of Health & Multicultural Communication. (n.d.). NSW multicultural health communications services: Resources by topic: Parenting. A variety of different topics available in Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, among others. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/mhcs/topics/Parenting.html |
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NSW - New South Whales Department of Health & Multicultural Communication. (n.d.). NSW multicultural health communication services - Resources by language. Provides information on a variety of topics in 60 different languages. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://www.mhcs.health .nsw.gov.au/mhcs/languages.html |
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The Nutrition Education for New Americans Project. (2004). Bilingual diabetes handout. From Georgia State University, this project has ended but the nutritional and diabetes handouts are still available in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian-Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Igbo, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Oromo, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tigrinian, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, & Yoruba. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://monarch.gsu.edu/multiculturalhealth |
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NYU School of Medicine Center for Immigrant Health. (2001). Tuberculosis brochures. Information in Bengali, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Creole, English, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tibetan, Urdu. Retrieved October 8, 2008 from http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/tb/index.html |
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NYU School of Medicine. (n.d.). HICUP: Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public. Links to Chinese health information web sites. Retrieved October 8, 2008, from http://library.med.nyu.edu/patient/hicup/MoreLinks.html |
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Oakwood Hospital. (n.d.). From Oakwood Hospital in Michigan, U.S.A., My Voice-My Choice, advance directives in Arabic & Spanish. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.oakwood.org/Visitors/visitors_detail.asp?ContentId=1185 |
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Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. (2007). Fish consumption advice in Spanish, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese Laotian. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.oehha.ca.gov/fish/fishlang.html |
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Office of Minority Health U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. (n.d.). Publications in other languages. Offers materials in Cambodian, Chamorro, Chinese, Chuukese, Gujarati, Hawaiian, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Samoan, Tagalog, Thia, Tongan, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=101 |
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Office of Population Research & Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. (2008). The emergency contraception website: Educational and promotional materials. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Haitian-Creole, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, & Vietnamese. Retrieved September 23, 2008, from http://ec.princeton.edu/ecmaterials/default.asp |
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Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care. (2003). Influenza Pandemic Planning: General Plans, Presentations, & Resources. Available in 21 languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Ojicree, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukranian, Urdu, & Vietnamese. Retrieved April 28, 2009 from http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/program/emu/pan_flu/pan_flu_materials.html |
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Oregon Health & Science University Libraries. (1999). Patient education resources for clinicians. Provides a list of Spanish sites and links to other non-English sites. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.ohsu.edu/library/patiented/links.shtml |
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Overlake Hospital Library, Bellevue, Washington. (n.d.). Multicultural health information sites. Click on subject guides, then multicultural sites. Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://medlib.overlakehospital.org |
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Palliative Care Council of South Australia Inc. (1999). Multicultural Palliative Care Guidelines Victoria, Australia. In Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. (Also from the home page, click on languages). Retrieved October 9, 2008, from http://www.pallcare.asn.au/language.php |
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PapScreen Victoria. (2008). Multilingual cancer information. Is contracted to develop and implement Victoria's cervical screening communications and recruitment strategy. Provides resources for women in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Filipino, Greek, Italian, Khmer, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.cancervic.org.au/multilingual |
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Partners Human Research Committee. (n.d.). Obtaining and documenting informed consent of subjects who do ot speak English. Retrieved February 24, 2009 from http://healthcare.partners.org/phsirb/nonengco.htm |
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Pathfinder International. (n.d.). Comprehensive reproductive health and family planning training curriculum. Available in Amharic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.pathfind.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Pubs_Training_Curriculum |
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Planned Parenthood Association of Edmonton (Canada). (2002). Multilingual information. Information about reproductive health, family planning/birth control, AIDS and safer sex practices, and medical information available in Punjabi, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and Somali. Retrieved December 2, 2008 from http://www.optionssexualhealth.ca/index.php?m=5&s=2 |
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Protection & Advocacy Inc. (for Californians with Disabilities). (2005). Advance Directives and many other documents related to Mental Health in multiple languages including Asian languages, Spanish, and others. Retrieved June 2, 2008 from http://pai-ca.org/issues/mentalhealth_pubs.html |
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Public Health Agency of Canada. (2004). Multilingual hepatitis C information. Available in Punjabi, Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/hepc/pubs/multiling-hepc/index-eng.php |
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Public Health: Seattle and King County. (2004). Education materials on the West Nile Virus. Materials available in Spanish, Russian, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.doh.wa.gov/ehp/ts/Zoo/WNV/education.html |
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Public Health: Seattle and King County. (2007). Vulnerable Populations Actions Team (VPAT): Preparedness planning tools. Site offers emergency preparedness materials in English, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese for the Seattle, Washington community. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.metrokc.gov/health/VPAT/downloads.htm |
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Queensland Government. (2005). Informed consent - Multilingual information: 12 important questions to ask about your surgery, Anaesthetic - Patient information, & General consent. Available in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, Serbian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved March 31, 2009 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/informedconsent/multi_info.asp |
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Queensland Health- Multicultural Health Resources (2008). Health information in your language. An option of 54 different languages from African, Asian, and European countries. Choose language, then choose topic. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/public/language.asp#language |
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Queensland Health. (2006). Queensland Health: Transcultural mental health centre: Multilingual resources. Six sets of multilingual brochures for mental health professionals. Available in languages such as Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/qtmhc/multilingual.asp |
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Queensland Health. (2007). Qld transcultural mental health centre multilingual brochure catalogue. A variety of brochures available in languages such as Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, Farsi, Greek, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Samoan,Serbian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, among others. (42 pages). Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/pahospital/qtmhc/docs/brochurecatalogue.pdf |
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QuitNow. (2006). Quit in Your Language. Provides general information regarding smoking and quitting in Greek, Italian, Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Vietnamese. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.quitnow.info.au /internet/quitnow/publishing.nsf/Content/quitters-languages |
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Refugee Assessment and Guidance Unit - RAGU. (2008). Guide for refugees and asylum seekers. Guide provides information on education, training, and employment for refugees and asylum seekers living in England and Wales in English, Arabic, Farsi, French, Pashto, Somali, Sorani, Tigrinian, Turkish, and Urdu. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/ragu/ragus-publications.cfm/div%3e#1 |
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Refugee Council - London, England. (2008). Domestic violence - Do you need help? Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Kurdish (Sorani), Portuguese, Pushto, Russian, Somali, Tamil, Tigrignia, Turkish, and Urdu. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/practice/multilingual/advisers/support/domestic_violence.htm |
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Refugee Council. (n.d.). Refugee Council multilingual website. Languages: English Portuguese, Albanian, French, Russian, Turkish, Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Tigrignia, Dari, Farsi, Kurdish Sorani, Pushto, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, Chinese, & Vietnamese. Retrieved March 10, 2009 from http://languages.refugeecouncil.org.uk/index.htm |
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Refugee Health Information Network - RHIN. (2007). Multilingual health information for refugees and their health providers. Health information in multiple languages. This site provides information in a large variety of languages in audio, video, and print format on multiple topics. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.rhin.org/health_info.aspx |
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The Royal Women's Hospital. (2006). The Women's: Victoria, Australia - Multilingual fact sheets. This site provides health information in Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Chinese, Craotian, Farsi Filipino, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russina, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Tigrinian, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 9, 2008 from http://www.thewomens.org.au/MultilingualFactSheets |
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SAMHSA's NCADI Library. (n.d.). USDHHS, Repository of alcohol and drug use information, it provides publications in different languages, including Spanish, Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, and Korean. (These publications are available for a fee.) Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://ncadistore.samhsa.gov/catalog/audiences.aspx? |
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San Francisco Department of Public Health. (2007). Newcomers Health Program. Newcomers reports and materials. Information in Russian and/or about Russian immigrants. Retrieved July 9, 2008, from http://www.dph.sf.ca.us/chpp/newcomers/newreports.shtml |
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Select Wisely. (2008). Food and travel translation cards for communicating food allergies and other health problems. Available in English, French, Spanish, German, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Portuguese, Chinese, Hong kong, Arabic, Croatian, Czech, Farsi, Hindi, Khmer, Korean, Norwegian, Swahili, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 26, 2008 from http://www.selectwisely.com/select_wisely/ |
Sexuality Education Resource Centre - SERC Manitoba (Canada). (2006). Links to sites with French materials available and Get the facts about sexually transmitted diseases and other downloadable pamphlets in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Dinka, English, Farsi, Filipino, German, Hindi, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swahili, Ukranian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.serc.mb.ca/content/article/Resources?market=GE&topic=SE&subject=
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Sheboygan County Health and Human Services. Services & information and Public health publications. Available in English, Spanish, and Hmong. Retrieved January 21, 2009 from http://www.co.sheboygan.wi.us/html/d_hhs_pblchlth.html |
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South Texas College. (2003). A Su Salud, Health Information in Spanish (A Community College Library site with multiple links to Spanish- language health materials, search engines, and much more.) Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.southtexascollege.edu/lrc/Library/webdirectory/asusalud.htm |
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Spanish Cancer Resources. (2003). Links to various Information resources on cancer in Spanish. Retrieved June 25, 2008, from http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks5j.htm |
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Spartanburg County (South Carolina) Office of Emergency Management. (2006). Foreign language emergency preparedness library. Provides links to information in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, French, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.scoem.org/format.html |
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Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. (n.d.). The 24 languages project: Consumer health brochures in multiple languages. Provides access to over 200 brochures 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. Retrieved September 29, 2008 from http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/ |
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SPIRAL-Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages. (2008). SPIRAL from Tufts University provides access to consumer health information in the following Asian languages: Chinese, Hmong, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. Retrieved June 3, 2008, from http://www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/spiral |
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Stampino, V.G. (2007). Improving access to multilingual health information for newcomers to Canada. JCHLA / JABSC - Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 28, 15-18. Retrieved September 3, 2008, from http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/jchla/jchla28/c07-003.pdf |
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The Stanford Health Library. (n.d.). Provides links to multilingual health information by language. Available in 59 languages. Retrieved October 15, 2008, from http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu/resources/foreign/_intro.html |
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. (2004). The DASIS report: Facilities providing substance abuse treatment in languages other than English. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.drugabusestatistics.samhsa.gov/2k3/LanguageTX/lang.htm |
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The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. (2008). Breast self-exam (BSE) cards in English, Spanish, African American, Arabic/English, Chinese/English, French, German/English, Italian, Korean, Russian/English, and Vietnamese. Also 14 topic cards on a variety of breast cancer issues available in Spanish. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://cms.komen.org/Komen/AboutBreastCancer/Resources/DownloadBSECards |
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Swedish Medical Center Pregnancy Foresight Project. (2003). A resource for preconception and prenatal education. Printable materials in English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Somali, Russian, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 15, 2008, from http://www.swedishmedical.org/PregnancyForesight/Home.html |
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Texas State Department of Health. (2008). Diabetes & Nutrition Handbook, available in Spanish. Retrieved June 5, 2008 from h http://www.ndep.nih.gov/diabetes/pubs/spanishcatalog.htm |
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Thailand Burma Border Consortium - TBBC. (n.d.). Nutrition reports and resources. Available in English, Thai, and Burmese. (228 pages). Retrieved September 16, 2008, from http://www.tbbc.org/resources/resources.htm#nutrition |
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Tobacco Products Directive of European Commission. (2001). Pictorial health warnings - Background information. Available in languages native to these countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czec Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, & United Kingdom. Retrieved December 4, 2008 from http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/Tobacco/pictorial_warnings_en.htm |
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U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2007). Article discussing free brochures in Spanish and English regarding which medical checkups are nedded to stay healthy. Retrieved September 5, 2007 from http://www.healthfinder.gov/news/newsstory.asp?docID=603117 |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (n.d.). Resources for new immigrants. Available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Haitian Creole, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Retrieved November 3, 2008 from http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis /menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=f2b1e89390b5d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD& vgnextchannel=f2b1e89390b5d010VgnVCM10000048f3d6a1RCRD |
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U.S. Committee for Refugees & Immigrants - USCRI. (2008). Food and nutrition handouts. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Haitian, Hmong, Karen, Kirundi, Nepalese, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Russian, and Vietnamese. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1818 |
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U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants - USCRI. (2008). USCRI Healthy Refugee toolkit downloads covering communicable diseases, domestic violence, health care, hygiene, maternal and child health, nutrition related diseases, respiratory diseases, and women's health in Arabic, Ahmeric, Bosnian, Burmese, English, Farsi, French, Haitain Creole, Hmong, Karen, Kirundi, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese. Retrieved December 1, 2008 from http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1854 |
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U.S. Department of Food Safety. (2008). Other languages documents. Documents regarding food safety in Chinese, simplified and tradiational, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguege, Russian, and Spanish. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fsglang.html |
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University of Minnesota Extension Service. (2007). Info-U Documents: Documents about families, gardens, farms, food, homes, yards, and the environment in Spanish, English, Somali and Hmong, click on the language. Retrieved June 3, 2008 from http://www.extension.umn.edu/info-u/ |
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University of Minnesota Extension Service. (2008). Positive discipline: A guide for parents. Available in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish. Retrieved October 15, 2008, from http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/familydevelopment/DE8095.html |
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USAID - Maximizing Access & Quality - MAQ Web. (n.d.). MAQ Tools. USAID FP/HIV Integration guidelines available in English, French, Spanish, & Russian. Checklist to rule oout pregnancy available in English, Spanish, and French. Retrieved December 8, 2008 from http://www.maqweb.org/maqtools.shtml |
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Utah Department of Health. (2005). Bio-terrorism and emergency preparedness. Provides information in Spanish. Retrieved October 15, 2008 from http://health.utah.gov/bt/video/SpanishplanningGuide.html |
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Utah Department of Health., Department of Multicultural Health. (n.d.). Provides health information in 34 languages on 20 different topics from arthritis to tobacco. Retrieved June 2, 2008, from http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/multilinguallibrary.htm |
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Victorian Government Health Information. (2007). Health translations directory. Search by keyword and by multiple different languages. Available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Macedonian, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandarin, Maori, Oromo, Pashtu, Polish, Portuguese, Pukapuka, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Tetum, Thai, Tigrynia, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 16, 2008 from http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/ |
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Victorian Government Health Information. (2008). In Your Language. Provides infectious diseases fact sheets in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Greek, Italian, Laotian, Pashtu, Portuguese, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Thai, Tigrigna, Turkish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October16, 2008 from http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/diseases/language.htm |
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Washington State Department of Health. (2007). Translated materials. Offers department of health publications and in languages such as Amharic, Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Somali, and Vietnamese about drinking water, food safety, emergency prepardedness, salmonella, tobacco, WIC, and West Nile Virus. Retrieved October 16, 2008, from http://www.doh.wa.gov/translated_materials.htm |
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Washington State Department of Social & Health Services - DSHS, Mental Health Division - MHD. (2006). Mental health advance directives. Available in English, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Retrieved October 23, 2008 from http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/Mentalhealth/advdirectives.shtml |
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