RESOUR> Medical Information in the Spanish and Other Non-English Languages

From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:00:00 -0500
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Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 19:51:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Medical information is vital. Speaking a language different
than that of the health care providers who are taking care
of a patient, the patient may be at a distinct disadvantage
in knowing and understanding what is happening in their
health situation.  Web resources like the ones below, may
be useful to health care providers in helping their Spanish
or other non-English speaking patients and their families
develop better information about the medical circumstances
in which they find themselves.  In the United States Spanish
is particularly important because Spanish speaking citizens
now constitute the largest minority in the United States.


Library Services Online: South Texas Community College
A Su Salud
Health Information in Spanish
<http://www.stcc.cc.tx.us/lrc/Library/webdirectory/asusalud.htm>

Healthy Wisconsin People
Your Gateway to Quality Health Information
Espagnol
<http://www.healthywisconsin.org/Espanol1.htm>

Medical Translation Resources
<http://www.state.ma.us/dph/bhqm/webresou.pdf>

Foreign Language Patient Resources on the Net
<http://www.crmef.org/CRMEF%20Online%20med%
20reference%20links_files/ForLangRes.htm>

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in Spanish
<http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm>

CAPHIS Resources in Spanish for Consumer Health Information
http://caphis.mlanet.org/ resources/CHISspanish.html

Familydoctor.org Pamphlets in Spanish
http://familydoctor.org/espanol.html

Healthfinder in Espaol
http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol

MEDLINEplus in Spanish
http://medlineplus.gov/esp

Another important aspect of working with patients
whose language is non-English is to better understand
as much as possible about the language of the patient.

The resource links found on these web pages will help
with this need:

Foreign Language Database
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Linguistics/flangdatabase.html>

Language Arts Lesson Plans
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/dblanguagearts.html>

List of Language List Serves and
Descriptions of what you'll find there
<http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Internet/LISTSERVS/
List_of_Language_List_Serv.html>

I hope that the members of this discussion group will find
these resources a healthy way to use the internet, so to
speak.


Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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RESOUR> Medical Information in the Spanish and Other Non-English Languages

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