Multi-Language Internet Resources on Health   Tags: arabic, asian languages, burmese, cambodian, consumer health, french, hindi, indonesian, japanese, korean, multilingual, portuguese, russian, spanish, tagalog, thai, translations, vietnamese  

The AIDS InfoNet provides current information on HIV and AIDS treatment and prevention in English, Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi, Oriya, Tamil and Telugu.

Lots of cancer information for consumers. Also has materials in Spanish and Asian languages.

ASIAC (formerly AIDS Services in Asian Communities) provides HIV brochures in Bahasa, Chinese, English, Khmer, Korean and Vietnamese.

The Cancer Index has links to cancer Resources in Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Others. For Japanese go to http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks13.htm#6

Concise, customizable materials address patient condition, treatment, laboratory tests, follow-up care, psychosocial issues, continuing health, and the most frequently administered drugs. Limit search to a particular document type: General Information, Precare, Inpatient Care, Discharge Care, After Care Instructions, and DrugNote. Drug and discharge information for common conditions/procedures and frequently prescribed medications now available in: Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Polish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese.

Contains links to National Institutes of Health publications in languages other than English.

Resources and Patient Education Materials for: Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrean, Vietnamese and others.

The FDA Office of Women’s Health (OWH) has developed FREE publications designed to give women timely health information in a clear, easy-to-read format.

Search all or one of the following electronic reference books: Complete Human Diseases & Conditions (2008), Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine (2009), Encyclopedia of Cancer (2006), Encyclopedia of Mental Health (2008), Encyclopedia of Senior Health (2009), Encyclopedia of Surgery (2004) and Nutrition & Well-Being A to Z (2004). Sections from these books can be translated online into multiple languages.

Use the drop-down box to choose a language - Chinese Simplified and Traditional, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, Hindi, Vietnamese, and Arabic.

Multi-source database providing access to full-text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a wide variety of personal health information sources that offer reliable health information to researchers, including nursing and allied health students.

From Australia, this database contains links to government, hospital, community health center and other agency online multilingual resources in numerous languages.

Provides audio, written and multimedia versions of resources in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali, Bosnian, Russian, Hmong, and Khmer.

From Australia, this website provides HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C information in the following languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, Croatian, English, Indonesian, Italian, Khmer, Portuguese, Serbian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

Vaccine Information Sheets, produced by the Center for Disease Control, are available in over 30 languages.

From Australia, this site covers numerous health topics in 50 languages.

List of resources for the consumer on patient safety. Available in over 10 languages.