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Multilingual resources
Highlighted sites
Hmong Health Web site (National Library of Medicine): Hmong community information on family health, healthy living, traditional healing, plus health illustrations with translated labels. A Hmong health dictionary organized by systems of the body also is available, along with information regarding how to talk with health care providers.
www.hmonghealth.org/
www.hmonghealth.org/
MedlinePlus in Spanish (National Library of Medicine): A Spanish-language site from the federal government that directs you to information for answering health questions. Preformulated searches are included and give access to medical journal articles. The site also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and the latest health news. medlineplus.gov/spanish/
SPIRAL (Tufts University): Health information in several Asian languages: Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.
www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/spiral/
www.library.tufts.edu/hsl/spiral/
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Consumer and Patient Health Information Sections (CAPHIS): (Medical Library Association): Consumer and patient health information section provides many high-quality Spanish sites on general health and specific conditions. http://caphis.mlanet.org/resources/CHISspanish.html
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Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public (HICUP) (NYU Downtown Hospital): Electronic access to patient education documents and consumer health information written in Chinese. (Chinese, English) http://library.med.nyu.edu/patient/hicup/
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MedInfoRus (New York City librarians): Collection of links to medical Web sites, electronic publications, directories and other resources available in Russian. (English, Russian)
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Vaccine information (Immunization Action Coalition): Immunization information in more than 30 languages.
www.immunize.org/catg.d/noneng.htm
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