Cultural Diversity

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
The AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of America’s health care and promote evidence-based decision making. Aavailable in Spanish

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC is the principal agency in the U.S. government for protecting the health and safety of Americans.  This web site has versions in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Italian, Korean, and Russian. To access contents in other languages, click on Other Languages link at the bottom of the home page.

EthnoMed
A project of University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Ethnomed provides health information about cultural, medical, and other issues pertinent to the care of immigrant and refugee groups. EthnoMed is designed to be used in clinics by care providers in the few minutes before seeing a patient and has specific pages for more than 20 ethnic groups.

Healthfinder
Healthfinder is a bilingual Web site for consumers; it links to selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations. On each page the user can toggle between the two languages. Available in Spanish

Health Information Translations
Sponsored by the Ohio State University medical Center, it is a collaborative initiative to improve health education for patients with limited English language proficiency.  The information, in PDF format, is written in both English and the language selected.  The site currently supports Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukrainian, and Hindi.

HealthyNJ – Information for Healthy Living
Sponsored by the University Libraries at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, this consumer portal provides links to quality Web sites around the world, and is divided into five sections: Health and Wellness, Diseases and Conditions, Just for Kids, Health in NJ, and Reference Desk.

Healthy Roads Media

This site contains free health education materials in a number of languages and a variety of  formats. A list of the content source for each individual topic can be found on the Sources page of the Web site.

Hmong Health Website

The Hmong Health Education Network, a bilingual Web site, provides access to health information for Hmong people and those who provide health, education and social services to the Hmong community.

Multicultural Health Communication

Multicultural Communication provides a number of services to health professionals working with ethnic communities, including information and advice on appropriate ways to communicate with people of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms in Nine European Languages
This web site, from the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology in Belgium, contains glossaries of technical and popular medical terms in eight of the nine official European languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish. The information is accessible both alphabetically and by lemma (1830 concepts in all).

MedlinePlus
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine. The web site includes health topics, information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and the latest health news. Available in Spanish

Minhaal

Minhaal is the first dual-language Arab portal that provides healthcare related information.

Multilingual Health Information
Sponsored by the Stanford University Health Library, this site contains general health information on a wide variety of topics in more than 60 languages.. There is a link to the English version of each foreign language collection or article, except where so noted.

NOAH – New York Online Access to Health
NOAH provides access to high quality full-text consumer health information in English and Spanish that is accurate, timely, relevant, and unbiased. The topics in NOAH are listed both by category and alphabetically.  On each page the user can toggle between the two languages.

Proquest Culture Vision

ProQuest’s comprehensive Culture Vision database provides reports and reviews on more than 30 ethnicities and several religions in an intuitive browsing format. Available only on Marianjoy Network.

SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
SPIRAL is a joint initiative of the South Cove Community Health Center and Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library. The site provides consumer information in Cambodian/Khmer, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese.