A multilingual application providing medical translations with audio across 13 languages to facilitate communication between patients and health care personnel who do not share a common language.
Cultural Competency
Center for Linguistic and Cultural Competency in Health Care The Office of Minority Health established the Center for Linguistic and Cultural Competency in Health Care to address the health needs of populations who speak limited English. Its mission is to collaborate with federal agencies and other public and private entities to enhance the ability of the health care system to effectively deliver linguistically appropriate and culturally competent health care to limited English-speaking populations.
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.
Multi-language Consumer Health Resources
EthnoMed Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to the US.
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.