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Resources with Items in Multiple Languages

Alzheimer's Association Diversity Toolbox
Information on Alzheimer's in Chinese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Australian Transcultural Mental Health Network
Mental Health materials in over fiftylanguages.

Cancer Index
Cancer Resources: Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Others.

CHID -- Combined Health Information Database (Advanced Search Form)
The Advanced Search box allows you to search for materials available in over seventy languages.

EthnoMed
Cultural Competency Resources and Patient Education Materials for: Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrean, Vietnamese and others

Ethnic Health Resource List
Utah Department of Health links to other language materials and Resources

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Other lanuage documents from the Food and Drug Administration in English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Thai.

Health Translations Online Directory
From Australia, this database contains links to government, hospital, community health center and other agency online multilingual resources in numerous language.

Healthy Roads Media
Provides audio, written and multimedia versions of resources in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali, Bosnian, Russian, Hmong, and Kmer.

HIV AIDS and Hepatitis C Website
From Australia, this website provides HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C information in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, English, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Portuguese, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese

How to Order NIH Publications in Languages Other Than English
Contains links to National Institutes of Health publications in languages other than English.

Immunization Action Coalition -- Print Materials in Other Languages
Vaccine Information Sheets, produced by the Center for Disease Control, are available in over thirty languages.

Multicultural Mental Health Austrailia (MMHA)
A database of materials on mental health concerns in numerous languages.

New Mexico Refugee Health Program
Materials in 18 languages for health care providers and others who serve refugee and immigrant populations.

New South Wales Multicultural Health Communication Service
A rich resource with numerous health topics that provide health information in 50 languages.

Ohio State University Medical Center Patient Education Materials
copyrighted materials; includes handouts in Spanish and Somali

Philly Health Info Ethnic Minorities Secition
materials in over 25 languages

Pregnancy Foresight Project: A Swedish Medical Center Resource for Preconception and Prenatal Education
Other language materials includes source information for materials provided.

PubMed Tutorials in French, German, Italian and Spanish

Refugee Health ~ Immigrant Health
Covers issues in refugee and immigrant health and includes general background information on numerous incoming populations

Twenty Four Languages
Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages; includes audio files as well as print handouts

University of Michigan Health System
Links to materials translated by Uof M Health System in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.

Resources for Specific Languages

Cambodian/Khmer

SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
Provides consumer information in Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Chinese

Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health
This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients.

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (Traditional)

Other lanuage documents from the Food and Drug Administration (Simplified)

HICUP -- Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public (Links to Chinese Information)
The HICUP web site provides electronic access to quality patient education documents and consumer health information written in Chinese and links to other Chinese language health information web sites. HICUP helps English-speaking clinicians to communicate with their Chinese-speaking patients by having online access to medical literature in the patient's language.

Language Access Health Project
A collection of translated materials relating to HIV/AIDS and health in over 30 languages. The program is the result of a collaboration between AIDS Services In Asian Communities and Congreso De Latino Unidos Inc.

National Asian Pacific Center on Aging

Senior health information available in pdf format in Chinese, Khmer, Korean, Samoan, Tagalog, Tongar, and Vietnamese. (Bilingual with English)

French

Canadian Health Network
CHN is a national, non-profit, bilingual web-based health information service. Links to more than 17,000 English and French Canadian web-based resources that pass a rigorous quality assurance process to ensure that the information is timely, accurate, and relevant.

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Other lanuage documents from the Food and Drug Administration in French

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Information in English and French on heart disease, stroke, healthy living, and more is available on this Canadian non-profit's website.

German

FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Other lanuage documents from the Food and Drug Administration in German

Welt der Gesundheit
From AIDS to Zappelphilipp syndrome (or ADHD), this site gives information on hundreds of health topics in German.

Patienten-Informationsdienst
The portal offers over 1000 reliable sources of consumer health information in German.

Meine Gesundheit
Consumer Health information in German with health topics, drug information, and more.

Deutches Medizin Forum

Medicine-Worldwide

Hmong

Hmong Health Website
The goal of the Hmong Health Education Network's website is to provide access to health information for Hmong people and those who provide health, education and social services to the Hmong community. Categories of topics include family health, healthy living, traditional healing, talking with health providers, and more.

WWW Hmong Homepage
This site gives links to Hmong cultural information, organizations, community resources, and a few health resources.