Health Information in Multiple Languages

24 Languages Project -- Health education brochures in 24 different languages.

About Family Medicine -- Materials about family medicine in English and several other languages.

Administration on Aging -- Provides a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of topics, programs, and services related to aging.

Anatomical Diagrams -- Provided by the Ohio State University Medical Center, these diagrams represent burn wound areas and donor sites, the urinary tract, esophopharyngeal structures, female genitals, female pelvic organs, female reproductive organs, GI tract, and the respiratory system.

Culture, Health & Literacy -- Health education materials in languages other than English. Site includes a subject index.

EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network Multilingual Library -- Database of health education materials available in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Ethnomed -- Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues, and other issues related to the health care of recent immigrants to the United States. Languages include Amharic, English, Cambodian, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrean, and Vietnamese.

Food Safety -- Information about food safety in several languages other than English from the U.S. federal government.

Health for Asylum Seekers & Refugees Portal (HARP) -- General multilingual health resources.

Healthy Roads Media Multiple Languages -- Healthy Roads Media provides patient education materials in a variety of languages and in a variety of formats--for printing, audio, etc. It also attends to issues of health literacy in its materials.

Immunization Action Coalition -- Multi-lingual information about vaccines.

Language Services Guide for Healthcare Organizations -- A patient-centered guide to implementing language access services in health care organizations from the Office of Minority Health.

Los Angeles Care Health Plan -- Health-related materials in Armenian, Chinese, English, Farsi, Khmer, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.

Missouri Hospital Association's Downloadable Tools -- Patient education tools and physician resources.

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute -- Education materials from the NHLBI in Spanish and many Asian languages.

NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service -- Over 400 publications on a wide range of health topics in a variety of languages, including Spanish. New publications are added and outdated ones removed regularly. The New South Wales Department of Health in Australia funds the service and endorses the multilingual health information presented on the Web site.

National Network of Libraries of Medicine’s Multilingual Health Information -- Resources for physicians and patients are organized by language.

Nutrition Education for New Americans -- Printable handouts in over 35 languages from Georgia State University about the food pyramid, healthy eating for adults, children, and mothers with babies.

US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants -- The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants provides downloadable, free brochures in 18 languages on the topics of communicable diseases, domestic violence, health care, hygiene, maternal and child health, nutrition-related diseases, respiratory diseases and women's health.

SPIRAL (Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages) -- Health information in Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration -- The FDA's consumer publications in Spanish and other languages about food, medicines and cosmetics.

Genetics Made Easy -- Information about genetics and reproduction. Content is available in English, Catalan, Spanish and Chinese.

NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service -- Information and services to assist English-speaking health professionals in communicating with patients who do not speak English.