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Consumer Health Information in Other Languages: Multilingual Health Information

Consumer health information for international patients and famillies

Multilingual health Information resources

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

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
A collaboration of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine(NN/LM) Consumer Outreach Librarians

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

Lab Tests Online
Peer-reviewed consumer health site in 17 languages for understanding clinical lab tests.

MedlinePlus Health Information in Multiple Languages
Information in over 40 languages from the National Library of Medicine's premier consumer health website.

SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
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.
Culturally appropriate material for consumers and health care-related professionals, in 19 languages.

Health Information Translations

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