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Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Health Information
Health information is available in a range of languages. These links help you find the information you need.
Cancer Council Helpline's trained nurse counsellors can also be accessed using an interpreter.
Ring 131 450 and ask to be connected to the Cancer Council Helpline 13 11 20.
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Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health www.ceh.org.au
Includes multilingual health information and health promotion information.
Health translations Online www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au
Provides the ability to search by language or category for health information.
Department of Health Multicultural Wellbeing www.culturaldiversity-humanservices.dhs.sa.gov.au
Through this site the Department of Health aims to:
 assist service providers in South Australia to access information and resource on cultural diversity that will facilitate the development of culturally sensitive services provide access to quality health and well-being information in community languages, as it becomes available. Healthy SA website - Multicultural health section www.healthysa.sa.gov.au/
- choose multicultural health from the menu across the top of the page
Provides a range of health and wellbeing information, some of which is in languages other than English. It also provides healthcare contacts for people who speak little or no English. NSW Health - Multicultural Health Communication Service http://mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/
Links to over 400 culturally diverse health publications in a wide range of languages. A new publication is produced each month. Also links to multilingual resources produced by other services.
Queensland Health Cultural Diversity www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/default.asp
Includes the following guides:
Cultural diversity - a guide for health professionals Guidelines to practice - providing care to patients from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Checklists for cultural assessment - a brief guide to interpreting, communication, attitudes and cultural assessments A guide to working with interpreters
Muslim patients handbook. Multicultural Mental Health Australia www.mmha.org.au
Provides information relating to mental illness, health and wellbeing in 49 languages.
Asian languages
SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages (South Cove Community Health Centre & Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library, New England) http://spiral.tufts.edu/about.html
Provides consumer information in Chinese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Laotian, Thai, Hmong and Korean.
Instructs health care providers how to use the wide variety of internet resources available.
United States National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov
Links to cancer (and other) resources from a range of sources in Asian languages.
Chinese
Hong Kong Cancer Fund www.cancer-fund.org/
A series of booklets in Chinese and English. Includes information on types of cancer and treatment.
French
Federation Nationale des Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer www.fnclcc.fr/fr/patients/dico/alpha.php
Provides a dictionary of cancers from A to Z.
Italian
AIMaC (Associazione Italiana Malati di Cancro) www.aimac.it
Includes 26 information booklets about different cancers, treatments and psychosocial issues.
Spanish
National Cancer Institute www.nci.nih.gov/espanol
A series of publications in Spanish ranging from screening and risk factors, to diagnosis and treatment for cancer.
Vietnamese
Vietnamese Community Health Promotion Project (University of California) www.suckhoelavang.org
Includes a series of downloadable booklets about breast cancer, cervical cancer, nutrition and quitting smoking.
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