Weill Cornell Medical Library
Consumer Health and Patient Education Resources in Languages other than English

• Russian and other Central/Eastern European Languages
  • EurasiaHealth Knowledge Network ? Multilingual Library
    http://www.eurasiahealth.org/index.jsp?sid=1&id=3542&pid=3540
    Database of health education materials available in the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
  • MedInfoRus - Patient Education (links to Russian information)
    http://medinforus.homestead.com/PInformation.html
• Spanish
  • The Merck manual of medical information: Home Edition (Spanish)
    http://www.msd.es/publicaciones/mmerck_hogar/index.html
  • New York Online Access to Health (links to Spanish information)
    http://www.noah-health.org/
    Links to sites on hundreds of different conditions in a variety of formats.
  • RxList: the Internet Drug Index (Drug FAQs/Patient Monographs)
    http://www.rxlist.com/ [from Mosby GenRx]
    WMC has access to Spanish-language patient handouts in MICROMEDEX.
  • Well-Connected via Egalenia.com - Choose "Enciclopedia."
    http://www.egalenia.com/
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  • Family Health International
    http://www.fhi.org/
    Family planning, HIV/AIDS and other reproductive health issues are covered in French, Spanish, Russian, & Arabic publications available from FHI.
  • Food Safety - Other Languages Documents
    http://www.foodsafety.gov/~fsg/fsglang.html
  • Immunization Action Coalition - Print Materials in Other Languages
    http://www.immunize.org/catg.d/noneng.htm
    Languages: Amharic (spoken in Ethiopia), Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian,Farsi (spoken in Iran), French, German, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog (spoken in the Philippines), Thai, Turkish, Tigrinya (spoken in Eritrea), Vietnamese. Topics: Immunization and Hepatitis B
  • Nutrition Education for New Americans
    http://monarch.gsu.edu/multiculturalhealth
    Four handouts from Georgia State University discuss the food pyramid, healthy eating for adults, children, and mothers with babies. PDF files in over 35 languages.
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  Web Directories of Print Materials
  
  
  • CHID: Combined Health Information Database - NIH/CDC/HRSA
    http://chid.nih.gov/
    Refine by Language option in Detailed Search.
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  WMC/NYP Resources
  
  
  • Patient Education Resources - NYP Infonet
    Approved NYWeill Fact Sheets includes a few in Chinese and Spanish in Word and PDF and PowerPoint formats

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  Internet Search Hints
  

  Search on language spoken as well as ethnic group, i.e., Cambodian (group) or Khmer (language). Where possible, search on both the English name and the name in the target language (if Roman alphabet) and use variations with and without accents and special characters: Spanish or Español or Espanol.

  • The Rosetta Project
    http://www.rosettaproject.org/
    Archive of 1,000 languages searchable by language or country. See alternate names.

   

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  Updated November 1, 2005, by Information Services infodesk@med.cornell.edu