Resources Page
Below you will find links, pdf materials, and other resources related to language access in clinical and pharmacy settings.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Women and Medicine [English][Spanish]
- Check your Medicines [English][Spanish]
- Your Medicine: Play it Safe [English][Spanish]
- Quick Tips When Getting a Prescription [English][Spanish]
American Pharmacists Association
- Understanding Food and Drug Interactions [English][Spanish]
- Over-the-Counter Medications and Drug Interactions [English][Spanish]
- Using Medicines Wisely [English][Spanish]
- My Medicines [English][Spanish] (also available in polish, Arabic, Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Samoan, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese, click here)
Health Education Literacy Program
- Be Smart about Medicine [English][Spanish][Haitian Creole] (also available in other languages at website)
- Taking Medicines Safely [English][French][Arabic][Spanish] (also available in Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Somali, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese at above website)
La Rue Medical Literacy Exercises
US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
National Council on Patient Information and Education
National Institute for Literacy
Health Literacy Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
Ethnomed
Ethnomed contains medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups and translated patient information. Current home of the "24 Language Project" which provides medical information in various languages (written and audio documents).
Eurasia Health
On-line clearing house featuring a searchable library of multilingual health resources, databases, and interactive forms. Available in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Health Information Translations
Translated documents available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hindi, English, and Vietnamese.
Health Translations Directory
Includes links to 10,302 multilingual health-related sources in 60+ languages.
Immunization Action Campaign
Information on child and adult immunizations in Amharic, Arabic, Chinese, French, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Tagalong, Turkish, Vietnamese and other languages.
Healthy Roads Media
Contains health education materials in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Tagalong, Farsi, Burmese, Nepali, Bosnian, Russian, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Liberian, French, Kurdish, Kirundi, and Karen.
National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM)
Offers information in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, French, German, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese.
Minority Health Concerns: Multilingual NIH Publications in Non-English Languages
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
TOPIC SPECIFIC MULTILINGUAL WEBSITES
Alzheimer's Disease
Information available in Arabic, Asian, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Bosnian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
Asthma
Downloadable materials in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Igbo, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish, and Yoruba.
Cancer
Links to web-based documents in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- National Cancer Institute's Spanish webpage
- Information on breast and cervical cancer in Samoan, Cambodian, Loation, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai.
Diabetes
Links to web-based documents in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- Diabetes Checkbook [English][Spanish][Chinese]
- National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (materials available in English and Spanish)
HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C information in English, Akan, Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Shona, Somali, Tagalong, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Nutrition
Explanations of nutrition labels in Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese, and English.
SPANISH LANGUAGE WEBSITES
4Women.gov Espagnol
Information and resources on women's health in Spanish.
Agency for Health Research and Quality
Spanish language consumer materials on maintaining good health, accessing health care, medical treatment and other topics.
Family Doctor.org Espagnol
Spanish language patient information from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
NOAH-Health.org
Links to full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish, identified by librarians and health professionals in New York and beyond.
TRANSLATION SERVICES
Language Line Services
Available 24hours a day with interpreters speaking over 150 languages.
Northwest Translations Inc.
Translation in 38 languages (written and verbal), with specializations in legal, engineering, and medical translation.
Transperfect Translations
Specializing in medical and pharmaceutical translation services, translation capacity capability in over 100 languages.
FREE ONLINE TRANSLATION SERVICES
Polyglot Multimedia Medical Spanish and English Translator
Searchable database of words and phrases by topic. Translations are written and verbal.
Altavista: Babelfish Translation
Immediate and free translation of short phrases. Languages include Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
I speak...Cards
These cards can be used to help an individual obtain interpretive services.
Language Access Know Your Rights Beneficiary Brochure
Available in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Creole, English, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
National Health Law Program (NHELP)
US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
CULTURAL COMPETENCY SECTION
National Standards on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards (CLAS)
Cultural Competency in Pharmaceutical Care Delivery, Assemi M., C. Cullander (2003)
A training template for a one-day pharmacy student elective course.
Anthropology in the clinic: the problem of cultural competency and how to fix it