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Malden Community Health Improvement Malden Care Center

 LOCATIONS || == 195 Canal St., Malden, MA, 02148, 781-338-0500 == Great news! We've expanded to care for you. [|Click here] to learn more. ||  http://www.challiance.org/IntheCommunity/MaldenCommunityHealthImprovement.aspx 
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Resources with Items in Multiple Languages
Cancer Index

@http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks13.htm

Cancer Resources: Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Others. EthnoMed

http://ethnomed.org

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

@http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/

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

http://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/

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

http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org

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

@http://www.mhahs.org.au/

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. Immunization Action Coalition -- Print Materials in Other Languages

@http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/noneng.htm

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

@http://www.llli.org/resources/otherlanguages.html?m=0,0,4

Breastfeeding information in 12 languages. Lab Tests Online

@http://labtestsonline.org/

Peer-reviewed consumer health site in 17 languages for understanding clinical lab tests. Mass General Hospital's Point to Talk Booklets

@http://www2.massgeneral.org/interpreters/pointtalk.asp Maternal and Child Health Library at Georgetown University Non-English Materials and Resources

@http://www.mchlibrary.info/nonenglish.html MedlinePlus Health Information in Multiple Languages

@http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

Information in over 40 languages from the National Library of Medicine's premier consumer health website. New Americans Health Information Portal

@http://palantir.lib.uic.edu/nahip/

Information in 19 languages, includes audio, multimedia, podcast and video format. New South Wales Multicultural Health Communication Service

http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au

A rich resource with numerous health topics that provide health information in 50 languages. Non-English Guides to PubMed

@http://nnlm.gov/training/resources/intlpubmedlinks.html

Learn to use PubMed, languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese. Refugee Health Information Network

@http://www.rhin.org/

Multilingual information for health professionals, refugees and asylees (in print, audio and video formats). U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

@http://www.refugees.org/resources/for-refugees--immigrants/health/healthy-living-toolkit/

Culturally appropriate material for consumers and health care-related professionals, in 19 languages.

American Sign Language
DeafMD.org

@http://www.deafmd.org/

Provides accurate, concise, and valuable health information in American Sign Language using health information created by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health. MedlinePlus - Health Information in American Sign Language

@http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/asl.html

Provides 30 videos from Health Information Translations.

Arabic
MedlinePlus

@http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/arabic.html

Cambodian/Khmer
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/khmer.shtml

Provides consumer information in Cambodian/Khmer, (in addition to Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Chinese
Asian Pacific Islanders Women's Health

http://www.apanet.org/~fdala/

This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients. Health Information Translations

@http://www.healthinfotranslations.com/

From the Ohio State Medical Center, includes health information and hospital signage documents. Languages include: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Tradition, English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Marshallese, Portuguese Brazillian, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Ukranian and Vietnamese. SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/chinese.shtml

Provides consumer information in Chinese, (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

French
Public Health Agency of Canada

@http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/index-fra.php

PHAC's primary goal is to strengthen Canada's capacity to protect and improve the health of Canadians and to help reduce pressures on the health-care system. CiSMeF Patients

@http://www.chu-rouen.fr/cismef/

Catalog and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet is a quality-controlled health gateway to catalog and index the most important and quality-controlled sources of institutional health information in French.

German
Welt der Gesundheit

http://www.gesundheit.com

From AIDS to Zappelphilipp syndrome (or ADHD), this site gives information on hundreds of health topics in German. Patienten-Informationsdienst

http://www.patienten-information.de

The portal offers over 1000 reliable sources of consumer health information in German. Medicine-Worldwide

http://www.medicine-worldwide.de

Hmong
Hmong Health Website

http://www.hmonghealth.org

The goal of the Hmong Health Education Network's website is to provide access to health information for Hmong people and those who provide health, education and social services to the Hmong community. Categories of topics include family health, healthy living, traditional healing, talking with health providers, and more. SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/hmong.shtml

Provides consumer information in Hmong (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Korean
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/korean.shtml

Provides consumer information in Korean (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Laotian
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Language

http://spiral.tufts.edu/laotian.shtm l

Provides consumer information in Laotian (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Russian
Health Information Translations

@https://www.healthinfotranslations.org/language/russian/275021/

Spanish
AIDSinfonet

@http://www.aidsinfonet.org/?lang=spa Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality en español

http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm American Cancer Society Informacion de referencia sobre el cancer

@http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ESP/ESP_0.asp Cancer.gov Spanish Resources

@http://www.cancer.gov/espanol CDC -- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention en español

http://www.cdc.gov/spanish ChooseMyPlate.gov in Spanish

@http://www.choosemyplate.gov/en-espanol.html

United States Department of Agriculture's healthy food guidance system Spanish language portal. Community Tool Box/Caja de Herramientas Comunitarias

@http://ctb.ku.edu/es/ Denver Public Library Salud y Medicina

@http://espanol.denverlibrary.org/health/index.html Familydoctor.org Pamphlets in Spanish

@http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/es.html Healthfinder en español

http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol

InfoSID

@http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/infoSIDA/ Lance Armstrong Foundation's LIVESTRONG

http://www.livestrongespanol.org/ MedlinePlus en español

http://medlineplus.gov/esp Multimedia Medical Spanish Translator

@http://polyglot.topsailmultimedia.com/polyglot.html

Includes audio files so you can listen to the translated words and phrases. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

@http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/spanish.htm National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

@http://espanol.ninds.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine's Tox Mystery (select the español tab)

@http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/ National Library of Medicine's Tox Town en español

@http://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/espanol/ Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health/ Información Para El Consumidor

[] Oficina de Salud de las Minorias/ Office of Minority Health

@http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/espanol Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration en español

@http://www.samhsa.gov/espanol/ WomensHealth.gov en español

@http://www.womenshealth.gov/espanol/

Thai
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/thai.shtml

Provides consumer information in Thai (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, and Vietnamese) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.

Vietnamese
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages

@http://spiral.tufts.edu/vietnamese.shtml

Provides consumer information in Vietnameses (as well as Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, and Thai) and on a wide variety of Internet resources including National Library of Medicine and Tufts University resources.   **Brain based Learning:** http://www.greenleaflearning.com http://esl.fis.edu/teachers/support/brain.htm

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