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Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange this fantastic resource has a database of rehab research conducted outside the United States, brochures on providing rehab services to foreign-born cultures, is hosting a May 2002 conference in Washington, DC on "Providing Culturally Competent Disability Services to Persons Born in other Countries," and much more
Six Steps Toward Cultural [Healthcare] Competence send for your free copy
The Center for Cross-Cultural Health
Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines: Cross-Cultural Resources
Transcultural and Multicultural Links includes a link to EthnoMed
Voices of the Communities Survey Summaries scroll to the bottom of the screen to find out how you can get the non-condensed version
Cultural Orientation Project provides rich details about various cultures (& more to come): Afghans, Bosnians, Cubans, Haitians, Iraqi Kurds, Iraqis, & Somalis
Multicultural Palliative Care Guidelines covers various aspects of palliative care (general, religion, place of treatment, communication of diagnosis/prognosis, role of family/relatives/friends, role of health professionals/volunteers, attitudes to pain relief, community attitude towards euthanasia, taboo words, handling of the body, & burial) of the cultures from these language groups: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, & Vietnamese
EPERC End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center register for free; they have many great resources & links, including information on cultural aspects of palliative care. This resource is from the Medical College of Wisconsin.
ESRC Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health & Diversity check out their Useful Links, End of Life; they also have systematic reviews, such as: Diversities in Approach to End-of-Life: a view from Britain of the qualitative literature
Ethnomed this site has articles on cultural health practices and links to a few translated health education materials (Amharic, Cambodian, English, Tigrinya, Oromo/Galla, Somali)
The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born great series of brochures on various cultures (Mexico, China, Philippines, India, Vietnam, Dominican Republic, Korea, El Salvador, Jamaica, and Cuba); includes ADL information, cultural conceptions about disability, organizations, family dynamics, and more
Miscellaneous: Culture Section includes more valuable resources, including the encyclopedias that give insight to cultural ADLs, hobbies, and more
Geri-Ann Galanti: Cultural Diversity in Healthcare her book, "Caring For Patients From Different Cultures" has tons of succinct, interesting case studies; she has also written articles; her site has links to some of her articles and brief cultural profiles (African American, Asian, Hispanic (Mexican), Middle Eastern, & Russian); she offers workshops & consultation
Cross Cultural Medicine describes strategies for communicating with Navajo (Native American) patients
Communicating Appropriately with Asian and Pacific Islander Audiences
Center for Immigrant Health: Publications they sell materials on medical interpretation & cross-cultural care
Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations
Charles Kemp's Gateway Page information on cultural health practices & more; Bosnian, Cambodian/Khmer, Cuban, Ethiopian/Eritrean, Gypsy/Roma, Haitian, Indian (Asian), Iraqi, Korean, Kosovar, Kurdish, Laotian/Lao, Liberian, Mexican/Hispanic, Nigerian, Somali, Sudanese, & Vietnamese cultural info with print & electronic reference lists; visit "Refugee Health: Populations & Issues," "Asian Health," & "Hispanic Health"
Hmong Cultural Center, Inc. has online articles and bibliographies on etiquette, games, and more
Culture Clues excellent PDF handouts for clinicians--describes the perception of illness, patterns of kinship & decision making, & comfort with touch of the Albanian, African American, Chinese, Korean, Latino, Russian, & Vietnamese cultures, more cultures will be covered; created by the University of Washington Medical Center; their homepage has translated patient education materials but can only be accessed at UWMC
Cultural Competency sections include: questions in assessing culturally diverse patients & families, attitudes of the culturally competent clinician, etiquette & communication, patients' health beliefs assessment guide, & cultural health information (African Americans, Chinese, Muslims, Japanese, Mexican Americans, & Russians)
Guidelines to Practice provides general information for working with patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (including issues about diet, medicine, therapy, and more)
Culture & Nursing Care Pocket Guide book available for purchase; "contains detailed cultural group profiles, religious belief profiles, country of origin maps, & US cultural group population maps"; I haven't read it yet, but it was the 1996 Book of the Year from the American Journal of Nursing
Refugee Service Center scroll down to "Fact Sheets" for blurbs about the Bosnian, Cuban, Haitian, Iraqi Kurd, Iraqi, & Somali cultures, including info on their festivities & proverbs
Center for Immigrant Health: Publications they sell materials on medical interpretation & cross-cultural care
Patient Education Materials low-literacy brochures for migrant workers, in English & Spanish; also has migrant profiles, the Migrant Health Newsline, & more
Food Guide Pyramid: Ethnic/Cultural has links to food pyramids targeted towards ethnic diets and foods, although the information is in English only
South Miami/Baptist Hospital Culture Tool
--pending permission from South Miami/Baptist Hospital
Bioethics for Clinicians: Islamic Bioethics article in the Canadian Medical Association Journal
Caring for for Muslim Patients it targets physicians, however, certain aspects of ADLs, such as eating and medication use, are addressed in various sections
Lao Family Community of Minnesota has cultural health information on Hmong & Lao, as well as free patient education materials (via mail) in various SE Asian languages
HealthWeb: Minority Health they've redesigned the site, I plan on providing additional links to their resources
Culture Training Manual for Medical Workers in Aboriginal Communities uses clinical vignettes to illustrate cultural issues in healthcare of the Pitjantjatjara Aborigines of Australia
When I Had My Baby Here! article (from a book) on Asian immigrant mothers in Australia
Providing Services to Koori Women having a Baby in English
The Encyclopedia of Medical Folklore SITE TEMPORARILY DOWN webliography & bibilography of cultural medicinal cures & practices
UCLA's Research & Educational Resources in Minority Health sells videos on cultural competency & medical interpreters; I haven't seen them yet
AMA Cultural Competence Initiative-Cultural Competence Compendium unfortunately, only sections instead of the entire book are online for free (the book's now available for purchase), guess they prefer making a buck
Hmong Health Care Professionals Coalition
Culture-Bound Syndromes in China describes illnesses (physical & mental) mainly found in certain cultures
Annotated Bibliography of Cultures & Cultural Medicine by Tanya Feddern
Migrant Health Monograph Series various topics, such as dentistry, child labor, domestic violence, & retention of bilingual & bicultural staff
See also Dictionaries/Medical Terminology/Abbreviations/SOAP Notes
Arabic Language Health Materials
Medlineplus, a resource linking to patient education handouts (this is NOT Medline, which is a database of journal citations), is now available in Spanish
HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis C Information Website information in: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Indonesian, Khmer, Vietnamese, Spanish, Thai, & Serbian
NSW Office of Drug Policy information in: Arabic, Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Indigenous Communities [Australia area] Information: part one
Indigenous Communities [Australia area] Information: part two
Multicultural Information: part one languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Dutch, English, Farsi/Persian, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Macedonian, Maltese, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Pushto, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino, Thai, Tigrigna, Tongan, Turkish, and Vietnamese
Multicultural Information: part two languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Dutch, English, Farsi/Persian, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Macedonian, Maltese, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Pushto, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino, Thai, Tigrigna, Tongan, Turkish, and Vietnamese
SPIRAL brochures in PDF in: Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, English, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese
Multilingual & Multicultural Health Brochures & Information Sites lots of nice sites from the Overlake Library
NHS this site has audio clips on various health topics in Bengali, Gujerati, Punjabi, and Urdu (scroll to the bottom of the page to get to them); print materials are linked here
Asian Pacific Islanders: Women's Health patient education in Cambodian, Chinese, English, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Thai, Vietnamese
Information in Languages Other Than English provides links to sites covering MANY different languages, including Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Cantonese, Czech, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Estonian, Farsi/Persian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indian, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Lao, Lugandan, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croat, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Swedish, Sylehti, Tagalog/Filipino, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh
Office for Civil Rights materials about disability & HIV/AIDS rights in Real Audio, Braille, Cambodian, Chinese, English, Korean, Laotian, Large Print, Multi-Languages, Spanish, Tagalog, & Vietnamese
Channing Bete Company sells low literacy patient education brochures
Low-Literacy Patient Education Handouts in English in HTML (Word format doesn't appear to be working)
Krames/StayWell Company sells low literacy patient education brochures
American Cancer Society low-literacy materials in English & Spanish; from "Patients, Family, & Friends" & "Health Information Seekers" click on "Informacion en espanol sobre el cancer"
American Heart Association: Spanish low literacy materials in English & Spanish, of which 10 brochures can be ordered for free
National AIDS Treatment Information Project in English & Spanish, scroll down to "Index of Spanish Titles," supposedly, the reading level is low to moderate
New Mexico AIDS Infonet in English & Spanish, you'll have to click on the link to see if it's offered in Spanish or not; supposedly, the reading level is low to moderate
AIDS Treatment Data Network in English & Spanish, has a glossary of terms & medications & patient education materials (under Hojas Sueltas); supposedly, the reading level is low to moderate
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality in English & Spanish
Florida Patient's Bill of Rights in Spanish
The Canadian Lung Association has factsheets & an interactive section for kids, too, in English & French
Community AIDS Treatment Exchange in English & French; supposedly, the reading level is moderate
Gay Men's Health Crisis in English & Spanish; supposedly, the reading level is moderate
Lange Productions Store sells books and videos on breast cancer in English and Spanish (click on the "For Latinas" link)
Baptist Health Systems of South Florida: Su Salud--Art�culos de Salud in Spanish
Diabetes UK some of the patient ed materials are free (Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Welsh)
FNIC Databases select the language (Bengali, Chinese, Creole, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh)
Patient/Family Education Materials by Category handouts in English, Hmong, Somali, & Spanish
Publications Available in Other Languages as PDF Files some of the handouts are in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, English, Filipino/Tagalog, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Kurdish, Laotian, Macedonian, Maltese, Pashtu, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tigrigna/Tigrinya, Turkish, & Vietnamese
Project Inform in English & Spanish, scroll down to "In Espanol" supposedly, the reading level is high
Child & Teen Checkups Brochures in English, Hmong, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish, & Vietnamese
Guide to Traumatic Brain Injury Resources lists where to obtain health materials, some in Spanish & Chinese
American Institute for Preventive Medicine Company sells some patient education materials in Spanish, scroll down & do a keyword search on "Spanish"
REPROLINE: Reproductive Health Online in English & Spanish
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in English & Spanish
National Alliance for Hispanic Health in English & Spanish
National AIDS Clearinghouse in English & Spanish
Compassionate Friends in English & Spanish
Epilepsy Foundation of America in English & Spanish
Planned Parenthood Federation of America in English & Spanish
National Parkinson Foundation in English & Spanish
Overview of Autism in Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, & Spanish
Family Doctor.org in English & Spanish
American Lung Association in English & Spanish
Canadian Cancer Society in English & French
Fresenius in English & German
World Health Organization in English, French, & Spanish
Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Projectonline TV ads & short videos & brochures in Vietnamese
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies in English & Spanish
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) sells videos & brochures in English & Spanish
Social Security Administration in Spanish & English
CDC Division of HIV/AIDS click on Brochures & on Fact Sheets; in English & Spanish
supposedly, the brochures are at a low reading level
Patient Education Materials low-literacy brochures for migrant workers, in English & Spanish; also has migrant profiles, the Migrant Health Newsline, & more
CDC Spanish the Centers for Disease Control now offers a Spanish-language version of their entire website
Pocket Guide to Minority Health Resources get this fantastic book via mail for free, has MANY minority health organizations and their contact information
CultureMed lots of links and bibliographies; including to patient-education materials in foreign languages (click on "Foreign Language Health Materials")
Multi-Cultural Communication Service has patient-education handouts in many languages, including: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Italian, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Lao, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese
Multilingual Health Education by the British Columbia Ministry of Health; patient education handouts in a variety of topics are in Chinese, Darshan, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi, Spanish, & Vietnamese; each is accompanied by the grade level, whether reviewed by a health care provider, whether proofread by a professional, and whether dual translation is used; you can even obtain a copy of their Interpretation Standards & Translation Guidelines; I wish more sites provided this valuable information!
Nutrition Education for New Americans Project has bilingual patient ed materials on the food pyramid in Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Cambodian (Khmer), Chinese, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Igbo, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish (Bahdiny or Bahdinani), Kurdish (Sorany or Swrany), Laotian, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tigrinian, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese, & Yoruba; the screen display is very poor but it prints out fine in LANDSCAPE; HOWEVER, these food pyramids are merely translated, not culturally-relevant. A much better site is here: Food Guide Pyramid: Ethnic/Cultural because their materials are targeted towards ethnic diets and foods, although they are in English only
Muscular Dystrophy Australia patient education in Italian and French
Patient Education: Dental Care has numerous online HTML handouts with color illustrations and photos in Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, & Vietnamese; the dentist can have each handout headed with his/her name and practice address; created by the Proctor and Gamble company, some of the handouts have been translated and approved by ethnic dental associations
Minority Health Resource Center call toll-free for their resource list of health materials and the Minority Health Publications and Programs Database is under "Resource Center"
Healthfinder: Minority Health links to multilingual brochures; also has a migrant health section
Refugee Health Information refugee health assessment brochure and patient-education immunization brochures in native script in Amharic, English, Hmong, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Vietnamese, and more
Primary Care, Rural, & Ethnic Health lists patient education brochures & where you can get them via mail, also has a medical interpreters directory; scroll to the bottom of the page to "Resources Available from our Office" for both links
Medicare US government site, available in Spanish & Chinese
National Asian Pacific Center on Aging online PDF & HTML handouts on Medicare, Medicaid, Managed Care, & Long Term Care topics in Chinese, Korean, Khmer (Cambodian), Samoan, Tagalog, Tongan, & Vietnamese
Translated Health Materials from the British Columbia Ministry of Health, materials are in Spanish, Vietnamese, Punjabi, & Chinese
Lao Family Community of Minnesota has cultural health information on Hmong & Lao, as well as free patient education materials (via mail) in various SE Asian languages
Sexual Assault: Its Impact and How to Deal with It this bilingual information booklet was created for the Bosnian community, click on "Order Form" to purchase a copy
Family Health Information online public health brochures (mostly reproductive issues) in French, Spanish, Russian, & Arabic
Neurofibromatosis in Other Languages patient education handouts in Arabic, Belgium French and Canadian French and Switzerland French, Flemish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Columbian and Spain Spanish, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Swedish
EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network: Multilingual Library there are records for different types of materials--pamphlets, questionnaires, videos, etc. of which SOME are on line fulltext in PDF format. Choose a Language and click on Search; DON'T limit by Type of Material because it won't retrieve much. Languages include: Albanian, Armenian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Georgian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian, Romanian-Moldovan, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukranian, & Uzbek. These materials cover many physical and some mental health topics.
BabelTree Project has online PDF brochures on physical & mental health topics in Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vitnamese click on "List all brochures in the BabelTree database"; their homepage is "Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities"
Index of Australian Mental Health Materials available in Community Languages gives phone numbers to Australian organizations offering pamphlets on physical & mental health topics; the URLs to the organizations are out-dated; languages include: Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, English, Farsi, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Italian, Khmer, Laotian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Maltese, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukranian, & Vietnamese
Easy-to-Read Publications low-literacy handouts are in English and Spanish on many health topics; from the Food and Drug Administration
Vaccine Information Statements in Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, French, Haitian, German, Japanese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Somali, Samoan, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese
Health Education Brochures (in multiple languages) over 200 brochures in 24 languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, Farsi, French, German, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Somalian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese
Patient Education for U in English & Spanish
Translated TB Educational Materials in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Cambodian, Hmong, Lao, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese
Spinal Cord Injury Information Network links to great articles; also click on "Education & Training" & then on "Foreign Language Materials" for links to SCI patient education materials in French and Spanish
Diabetes Australia Multilingual Internet Resource handouts on various diabetes topics are available in: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese
Texas Health Resources in English & Spanish, has patient education materials, glossary, & body parts diagrams
Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality handouts on various health topics in Spanish; available in PDF & HTML formats
(Public Health) Fact Sheets in Hmong and English
Hmong Resource List lists contact information of organizations that have pamphlets in the Hmong language
California Diabetes & Pregnancy Program order brochures (for a fee) on diabetes in Cambodian, Chinese, English, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Spanish, and Vietnamese
Treating Head Lice video in Hmong (for purchase)
University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources videos & brochures for a fee, including a Mexican Food Guide Pyramid (in English & Spanish); materials mainly in English & Spanish, a few in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Lao, & Vietnamese
National Institude of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases: Diabetes has patient education handouts on diabetes in Cambodian, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Ilokano/Filipino, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog/Filipino, and Vietnamese; as well as English-language handouts targeted towards various audiences (AAPI, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Indian, Japanese, & Korean)
National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases has Easy-to-Read handouts in English and handouts in Spanish; available in PDF & HTML formats
March of Dimes in English, has a Spanish portal
CancerNet: National Cancer Institute handouts in Spanish
National Cancer Institute in English & Spanish
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism in English & Spanish
New Mexico AIDS Infonet in English & Spanish
Publications in Other Languages brochures in PDF format are arranged by language: Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Dari, Filipino/Tagalog, Greek, Italian, Khmer/Cambodian, Kurdish, Laotian, Macedonian, Pashtu, Persian/Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tigrigna/Tigrinya, Turkish, Vietnamese
The World of Mutliple Sclerosis patient ed handouts in Arabic (listed at end), Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish, Estonian, Polish, Spanish, & Portuguese
Multi-Cultural Educational Services translated public health brochures for free, also has free ESL textbook online
A Su Salud: Health Information in Spanish by a very dedicated librarian, James Phillips
El Consultorio from the site: �This is a glossary of expressions and words in Spanish pertaining to health and medicine. They were collected from recent interviews in deep south Texas and northeastern Mexico.�
CISMeF, CATALOGUE ET INDEX DES SITES M�DICAUX FRANCOPHONES a French university website; click on "Informations pour les patients" for patient education information (in French)
Medlingua Project has side-by-side patient interview & instruction sheets in English, French, German, Italian, & Spanish
Language Identifiers if you don't know which language a website or document is in, check out these links; after you type/paste in the text, it'll tell you what language it's in
[Multilingual] Medicine links to medical dictionaries; languages include: Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, & Swedish
Cave Lion: Dicţionar de Medicină/Dictionary of Medicine in Romanian only
Dictionary of Medical Terminology English to Greek; Greek to English
Merriam-Webster Dictionary [British & American spellings] Type in the American spelling, and it provides the British spelling as well as the definition. If you type in the British spelling, it will suggest the American spelling. This is great for searching the EBMR databases which utilize keywords rather than MeSH; that way, you won't miss overseas research.
On-Line Medical Dictionary [British & American spellings] Here's another one. Type in the American spelling, and it provides the British spelling as well as the definition. This also works the other way around (British to American). This is great for searching the EBMR databases which utilize keywords rather than MeSH; that way, you won't miss overseas research.
Medlingua Project has side-by-side patient interview & instruction sheets in English, French, German, Italian, & Spanish
Multilingual Medical Glossary of 9 European Languages
Multilingual Medical Phrase Book from the US Army Dutch, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, & Turkish
Pocket Guide for Medical Interpretation covers health & culture, has labeled body parts, & common medical terms; the order form is online
Social Security Glossary of Terms in English & Spanish
Emergency Registration Dialog (questions & answers), Appointment Reminder Form, Medication Change Form in Chinese & English
English-Spanish Glossary of Terms days of the week, months of the year, numbers, & parts of the body
English-Hmong dictionary of Special Education great for IEPs
Caribbean Herbalist herbs are listed by scientific name, French, Haitian Creole, and English names
Language Dictionaries great links
NOTE: MeSH means Medical Subject Headings and consists of the subject words used to search MEDLINE. Although most of these sources on MeSH are NOT dictionaries, if you have no other resource handy, these sites may provide the equivalent subject word in the other language.
Sapphire International provides MeSH terms in other languages (English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian; French will be available soon, according to the site)--it is reversible, too; for example, can look up Russian MeSH for Spanish MeSH or German MeSH for English MesH; you must type in the correct MeSH term in order to get the results--if you forget the correct MeSH in English, verify it in PubMed's MeSH Browser. NOTE: I think the Russian, at least, is transliterated rather than in actual Russian cryllic and the Spanish does not include the accent marks.
DeCS: Health Sciences Descriptors/Descritores em Ci�ncias da Sa�de/Descriptores en Ciencias de la Salud provides MeSH in English, Portuguese and Spanish, including definitions in those languages
Swedish Medical Terminology provides MeSH in English and Swedish, via the Karolinska Institutet. University Library
Le MeSH Bilingue 2002 can search in French (and English?), courtesy of Inserm, DISC (Department of scientific information and the communication); unfortunately, the site is temporarily down, so I wasn't able to search it to see how it works (if it searches MEDLINE or provides the non-English MeSH, I don't know), I'll post details when I learn more
HON Select courtesy of the Health on the Net Foundation, can search in English, French/Fran�ais, German/Deutsch, and Portuguese/Portugu�s; unfortunately that function is temporarily down so I wasn't able to search it to see how it works (if it searches MEDLINE or provides the non-English MeSH, I don't know), I'll post details when I learn more
DIMDI can search MEDLINE in English or German in either language interface, courtesy of Deutsches Institut f�r Medizinische Dokumentation und Information; article abstracts are in English, but it does provide the MeSH in English and German
An Interlingual Database of MeSH Translations "A number of translations of MeSH are included in the UMLS Metathesaurus. A German MeSH, provided by DIMDI, French (INSERM), Portuguese (BIREME), Spanish (BIREME), Russian (Central Medical Library, Moscow), Italian (Istituto Superiore di Sanita), and Finnish (the Finnish Medical Society) are included in the 2000 Metathesaurus. MeSH has also been fully or partly translated into Dutch, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Chinese, and Arabic;" a PowerPoint presentation, UMLS Metathesaurus Fact Sheet, United Medical Language Fact Sheet, and UMLS Information, UMLS Knowledge Sources, 14th ed., 2003AA.
How to Work with a Foreign Language Interpreter
Center for Immigrant Health: Publications they sell materials on medical interpretation & cross-cultural care
Bibliography on Medical Interpreting
UCLA's Research & Educational Resources in Minority Health sells videos on cultural competency & medical interpreters; I haven't seen them yet
Selected Federal & State Laws & Regulations Requiring Language Assistance from the US Department of Health & Human Services
The Language Bank of Northern Nevada provides free verbal translations in over 40 languages for emergencies only for those in their area
Minority Health Project also hosts conferences
Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates has written extensively, created an assessment tool for measuring cultural competency in healthcare personnel (I haven't used it yet), & her book (which I haven't read yet) has an annotated bibliography of assessment tools to measure cultural competency; she offers workshops & consultation
Geri-Ann Galanti: Cultural Diversity in Healthcare her book, "Caring For Patients From Different Cultures" has tons of succinct, interesting case studies; she has also written articles; her site has links to some of her articles and brief cultural profiles (African American, Asian, Hispanic (Mexican), Middle Eastern, & Russian); she offers workshops & consultation
Migrant Health workshops tailored towards healthcare professionals
Windows 2000 Locale Info provides the language name in the native language, the language name in English, the iso country/language codes, & more; you can also email the webmaster for a copy of the database. He has written articles for Microsoft on their website; scroll to the bottom for information about the author (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsql2k/html/intlfeaturesinsqlserver2000.asp).
Omniglot: a Guide to Writing Systems shows samples of many writing systems as gifs (graphic images)
Embassies World-Wide list of embassies
Language Identifiers if you don't know which language a website or document is in, check out these links; after you type/paste in the text, it'll tell you what language it's in
Language Translation list of links to online translators
U.S. Government Census Database: Venus click on "STF3B," enter in the city's or cities' zipcode(s) and get a detailed description of the city's inhabitants (# of different languages spoken, ethnicities are also decently broken down--Hispanic: Nicaraguan, Argentinian, Cuban, etc.); this is great information for learning about the community you will be practicing in
Cultural Orientation Activities provides detailed outlines of activities to help people resettle in a new country--excellent!
Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills and Caring for Patients with Limited English Proficiency these videos can be viewed online
For You & Your Doctor, Partners in Health how to communicate with your doctor, in Chinese, English, Farsi, & Punjabi (search for it by title)
Recommended Core Curriculum Guidelines on Culturally Sensitive and Competent Health Care from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM)
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in health care (CLAS) from the Office of Minority Health
Self-Assessment for Cultural Competence for SLPs, but parts are relevant to any healthcare professional
Resumen de la Declaracion de los Derechos y las Responsabilidades de los Pacientes de la Florida/Summary of the Florida Bill's Patient Bill of Rights scroll down to the section with this title; also available in English (again, scroll down to the "Summary..." section)
Work Group on Minority Aging Newsletter
Women's Health Watch Newsletter produced by the Asian & Pacific Health Forum
Tips on Developing Patient Education
Call For Health program for migrant workers & their healthcare providers
Spanish Consumer Health Book & Video Distributors
National Association for the Education of Young Children: Other Publishers of Resources in Spanish
Boston Resource Net find healthcare organizations & professionals in the Boston area that speak a specific language(s)
Selecting Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Materials: Suggestions for Service Providers in Spanish; also available in PDF for both
Herb Contraindications and Drug Interactions: with Appendices Addressing Specific Conditions & Medicines
Brinker, F.
QV 767 B858h 1998 Health Reference
Excellent book when you want to keep an eye out for drug interactions. Lists herbal supplement contraindications for medical conditions & prescription medicines. Not only great for clients from different cultures, but for anyone who uses "non-traditional" medicine.
The Many Faces of Aging: Resources to Effectively Serve Minority Older Persons
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