Multilingual health information

Multilingual Health Information

BC Health Files: Series of one-page fact sheets on health and safety. Some topics available in Chinese, Punjabi, Spanish, French and Vietnamese.

BC Epilepsy Society: Information Sheets in Cantonese and Punjabi. The
Information Sheets are current, BC-specific, and have all been written
and/or reviewed by a professional advisory board.

Vital statistics agency translated brochures (Punjabi, Chinese and Vietnamese) :The brochures offer English and translated instructions to assist clients with: Registering A Child’s Birth in BC, obtaining a Marriage Licence and Registration of Marriage Form in BC, and Applying for Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates.

Canada's Food Guide: Learn know how much food you need, what types of foods are better for you, and the importance of physical activity in your day. Available in English , for First Nations, Inuit and Métis , French , Arabic , Chinese (simplified) , Farsi (Persian) , Korean , Punjabi , Russian , Spanish , Tagalog , Tamil , and Urdu.

Do Bugs Need Drugs: Information to help parents cope with common childhood infections such as cold, flu, sore throats, earahes and other respiratory tract infections in Arabic, Chinese simplified & traditional, French, Italian, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Spanish, Vietnamese.

SPIRAL Multilingual Patient Education Resources: Provides access to the patient information created by non-profit healthagencies and organizations in Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Korean, Loation, Thai and Vietnamese.

Health information translations: Pregnancy and baby care: There is a large section on pregnancy and childcare. The handouts are all in dual language so that you can read them simultaneously in both languages. Languages available: Chinese Simplified French, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hindi and English.

American Academy of Allergy Asthma & Immunology: Many resources for patients about diseases such as allergic rhinitis, asthma, atopic dermatitis/eczema, and anaphylaxis. Information also available in Spanish. (English / Spanish).

Tourette Syndrome Foundation of Canada: Questions & answers about Tourette Syndrome (English / Chinese).

Australian Multicultural Health Communication Service: Index by language: Search for health information in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dari, English, Farsi/Persian, Filipino/Tagalog, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer/Cambodian, Koori, Korean, Kurdish, Lao, Macedonian, Maltese, Maori, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Tamil, Tetum, Thai, Tigrigna, Tongan, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

Interactive Health Tutorials: English or Spanish: Using animated graphics each tutorial explains many medical procedures or conditions in easy-to-read language.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Facts for Families : Concise and up-to-date information on issues that affect children, teenagers, and their families. Also available in Espanol, Deutsch, Malaysian, Polish, Icelandic and Arabic.

Cancer Index: Links to sites with cancer information in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and other select languages.

Canadian Diabetes Association: Chinese language materials: Includes information on: Staying Healthy with Diabetes; Type 2 Diabetes: Things You Should Know; Are you at risk?; Healthy eating - general guidelines for diabetes; Diabetes and eating out., as well as an information line responded by Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking telephone volunteers.

Diabetes Australia Mulitingual Internet Resource: Diabetes information in Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Croatian, Ukranian, Serbian, Greek, Italian, Thai, Turkish & Vietnamese.

Children's Hospital at Westmead: Scroll down to the bottom of the page for factsheets about croup, febrile convulsions, bronchiolitis, fever gastroenteritis, home safety and urinary tract infection translated into Chinese, Arabic and Vietnamese.

The 24 Languages Project: Health Education Brochures in Multiple Languages: Electronic access to over 200 health education brochures in 24 different languages including: Arabic; Armenian; Cambodian; Chinese; Croatian; Farsi; French; German; Haitian Creole; Hmong; Japanese; Korean; Laotian; Portuguese; Romanian; Russian; Samoan; Serbo-Croatian; Somali; Spanish; Tagalog; Thai; Tongan and Vietnamese.

MedlinePlus: Health information in multiple languages including: Amharic, Arabic, American Sign Language, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Chuukese, Croatian, Farsi, French, German, Gujarathi, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Hmong, Ilocano, Italian, Japanese, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Marshallese, Navajo, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, Tongan, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu, Vietnamese.

Healthy Roads Media Free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of formats such as pamphlets, audio, video, multimedia, web video. Languages include: English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, Somali, Tagalog, Farsi, Burmese, Bosnian, Russian, Hmong, Kmer, Korean, French, Kurdish, Kirundi.

Provincial Language Service Health related French language resources developed by the Provincial Language Service an agency of the PHSA.

HealthLink BC Translated Resources provides tranlated resources in French, Chinese, Punjabi and Farsi

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PHSA improves the health of British Columbians by seeking province-wide solutions to specialized health care needs in collaboration with BC health authorities and other partners. For more information, visit http://www.phsa.ca

PHSA agencies include: BC Cancer Agency, BC Centre for Disease Control, BC Children’s Hospital and Sunny Hill Health Centre for Children, BC Mental Health & Addiction Services, BC Provincial Renal Agency, BC Transplant, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, and Cardiac Services BC.