Related Websites

The following links to other websites are provided as a means of accessing information. EthnoMed does not claim to verify all information, including translations, found through links.

American Cancer Society

ACS has cancer related resources, and have created a special section featuring Asian language materials, and Spanish language materials.

Asian Pacific Islander Cancer Education Materials Tool

The APICEM Tool provides links to Contributor’s web sites containing Asian or Pacific Islander cancer education materials. The materials referenced here have been screened by the contributing organizations/programs for medical accuracy and cultural relevance.

Asian Pacific Islander Women's Health

Los Angeles District FDA Site with materials on cancer screening in a variety of languages.

Breast, Cervical and Colon Health Program - Seattle & King County

The Breast, Cervical & Colon Health Program (BCCHP), funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)and Washington state, provides free breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income women. Factsheets, brochures, videos about breast cancer screening, colonoscopy and fecal occult blood test (FOBT) in a number of languages (English, Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese) and cervical cancer prevention materials in English, Spanish and Vietnamese produced by the Breast, Cervical and Colon Health Program at Public Health-Seattle & King County.

ECHO Minnesota - Emergency & Community Health Outreach

Website of ECHO Minnesota Collaborative c/o Association of Minnesota Counties. ECHO provides health and safety information in multiple languages and mediums by fax, phone, on television and on the web during emergency and non-emergency times to people with limited English language skills. Select a topic, and then click the language at the right to view the video in that language. All videos available in: English, Khmer, Somali, Vietnamese, Lao, Spanish, Hmong. Some resources available in these other languages: Amharic, Arabic, Karen, Oromo, Russian

Emergency and Earthquake Planning videos

Seattle Channel presents videos about what every citizen should know and how to equip and safeguard your home for an Emergency. The Personal and Family Preparedness video has been created to help Seattle residents prepare for disasters, available in the following languages: Amharic, Cambodian (Khmer), Cantonese, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Tigrinya, Vietnamese.

Health Information Translations

Health Information Translations is a collaborative initiative to improve health education for limited English proficiency patients, by leveraging the combined skills and experience of 3 of Central Ohio's largest health care organizations in the production of translated patient education materials.

Health Online: University of Washington Medical Center/UW Medicine Patient and Family Education translated handouts

are newly open to the public. You can choose to see the list of handouts sorted by language or by alphabetical English title. Click on the language version specifically. When it comes up, you will find that the English of the piece is the second half of each document on HOL. This was arranged so that the doctor or nurse always hands the patient both language versions at the same time.

Healthy Roads Media

This site contains free health education materials on a wide range of topics in a number of languages and a variety of formats. They are being developed to study the value of these formats in providing health information for diverse populations in a variety of settings. Materials are developed with attention paid to the issues of literacy, health-literacy, illness, aging, disability and language.

Hepatitis B Coalition of Washington (HBCW)

Formerly known as the WA State Asian Pacific Islander (API) Hepatitis B Task Force, HBCW has worked to bring hepatitis B awareness and education to the API community since 1997, and has since expanded work to other populations from high risk regions. Work includes exploration into culturally appropriate and effective strategies to reaching the families and household members of positive individuals, and promoting understanding of the liver disease, including testing, immunizations, and treatment for hepatitis B. HBCW is a network of health care professionals and community volunteers, health departments, community clinics, and nonprofit organizations. Click on Resources for education materials in many languages.

Hmong Health Website

This comprehensive website posts original content and links to outside sources of bilingual health information (Hmong and English). Categories of dozens of health conditions and topics include family health, healthy living, traditional healing, talking with health providers, and more.

MedlinePlus - Health Information in Multiple Languages

Links to find health information in languages other than English, provided on the National Library of Medicine consumer health information website. Includes quality guidelines for how they select the links on these pages. Browse information in multiple languages and by health topic.

Multicultural Health Communication

An Australian-based site with aim to facilitate the communication of information about health issues and services to people of non-English speaking backgrounds.

New Routes to Community Health

Improving the health of immigrants through immigrant-created media. Eight diverse immigrant-led collaborations across the United States have received three-year grants from New Routes to create locally-focused media and outreach campaigns that speak directly to immigrants’ health concerns.

Refugee Health Information Network

RHIN is a national collaborative partnership that has created a database of quality multilingual, public health resources for those providing care to resettled refugees and asylees.

Seattle-King County Disaster preparedness fact sheets and flyers

Key fact sheets with tips to help you prepare for and manage a disaster such as floods, power outages, hypothermia, and more. Languages: Chinese, English, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese

Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL)

A compilation of health materials available in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotion, Thai, Vietnamese languages. A joint initiative between Tufts University Health Sciences Library and the South Cove Community Health Center.

Somali Bantu Project: Health Education for Somali Bantu Refugees

A website in Buffalo, NY with a basic health education curriculum for Somali Bantu mothers. The materials include a policy and procedure manual, a picture book entitled “All About Health, and “Listen & Learn” (MP3) recordings in Maay Maay and Kizigua.

Southeast Asian Resources for Culture and Health (SEARCH)

Website of Lowell Community Health Center with health information on dozens of topics available in Khmer and English, including videos, printed materials and audio segments (see SEARCH Videos, SEARCH Audio, SEARCH Resources)

The Center for Weight and Health

The Center for Weight and Health based at Univerity of California Berkeley, along with other collaborators, have produced some culturally sensitive and relevant educational materials about health for immigrant families. Materials are available for download in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Vietnamese, and English.

USCRI - Healthy Living Toolkits

The USCRI Healthy Living Toolkit is designed to educate refugees and immigrants to become proactive health consumers and promoters in their communities.

Vaccine Information Statements

Vaccine information available in many languages, through the Immunization Action Coalition.

Victorian Government Health Information

Health information, available in several different languages, from the Department of Human Services, Australia.

Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project

The mission of the Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project (based in San Francisco, CA) is to improve the health of Vietnamese living in the United States. There are a number of Vietnamese language patient education materials available through their web site.

Voice of Cambodian Children

Website of a radio and community program based in Lowell, Massachusetts, the second largest Cambodian population in the United States of America. The Voice of Cambodian Children's mission is to educate and preserve rich Cambodian heritage, culture, tradition, religion, and arts through the process of democratic education. This website resources page makes translated health information available on a wide range of health topics and audio segment from the weekly radio show.

Washington State Department of Health - Fish Facts for Healthy Nutrition

This site contains information on fish and/or shellfish advisories in Washington State waters. Some of the information (Duwamish River, Yakima River) is translated into other languages for areas where there is a higher immigrant population.

Wellshare International - formerly Minnesota International Health Volunteers

A nonprofit organization based in Minnesota, MIHV operates community-based health programs in the United States and abroad. They have a variety of health education materials.