Health Literacy

• Think Cultural Health
  This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural and linguistic competency in health care. You may access free and accredited continuing education programs as well as tools to help you and your organization provide respectful, understandable and effective services.

• EthnoMed
  Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to the US.
• Health Information in Multiple Languages: MedlinePlus
  Use these links to find health information in languages other than English.
• Health Information Translations - Quality health education resources for diverse populations.
  Health Information Translations provides education resources in multiple languages for health care professionals and others to use in their communities.
• Healthy Roads Media
  A source of quality health information in many languages and multiple formats. 
• Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (SPIRAL)
  SPIRAL (Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages) is a web resource that connects people to authoritative health information in Asian languages that is freely available on the World Wide Web.

Adapted from University of Maryland Health Sciences and Human Services Library Health Literacy Resource Guide. Used with permission.