Global Languages and Cultures: Translation and Interpretation in Healthcare Settings

Provides English and Spanish handouts on a variety of diseases and conditions.

AccessMedicine offers three categories of handouts--Adult, Medicine, and Pediatric. All handouts are customizable, and include the option to add patient notes and personalized messages. Handouts are available in up to ten languages, including French, Chinese, Portugese, and Russian.

AccessPhysiotheraphy contains English and Spanish handouts on drug warnings, usage, side effects, storage, etc.

Clinical Key provides thousands of patient education handouts in multiple languages. Every handout is customizable with practice contact information and the ability to add special instructions for the patient.

Natural Medicines provides evidence-based, peer-reviewed information on foods, herbs, supplements and natural therapies. Database coverage includes efficacy, adverse effects, interactions, pregnancy, lactation, pharmacology, toxicology, dosing, standardization, and products tested by third-party laboratories. Each monograph is also available as a patient handout in English, Spanish, and French. These are designed to be given to patients and are written so they can be easily understood by a general consumer.

UpToDate offers two levels of patient handouts:
http://www-uptodate-com.dmu.idm.oclc.org/home/patient-education
Basic handouts provide short overviews that are written in plain language, and focus on the top four or five most important questions that a patient might have. Beyond the Basics handouts are longer and more detailed reviews that are best for readers who want more detailed information and are comfortable with some medical technology. All handouts are available in Arabic, English, and Spanish.

MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.

Published by the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration

Browse by languate or by health topic. Information and guides selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Supported by Ohio State University, Health Information Translations provides education resources in multiple languages for health care professionals and others to use in their communities. Resources are easy to read and culturally appropriate.

The National Council on Interpreting in Health Care is a multidisciplinary organization whose mission is to promote and enhance language access in health care in the United States.

SPIRAL is a web resource that connects people to authoritative health information in Asian languages that is freely available on the World Wide Web. SPIRAL is maintained by the Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library and funded by a grant from the New England Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine under contract N01-LM-6-3508.