Health In My Language
Translated information about health and health services in
Scotland
NHS Health
Scotland
Patient information in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi, French,
Gaelic, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi, Pushto, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish,
Turkish, Urdu
NHS Choices
(English only)
NHS Inform (English only)
Polish Information
Plus (NHS Education for Scotland)
Information in Polish on Education, Employment, Health, Housing,
Law and Your Rights, Libraries, Sport and Leisure, Money, Social
Work, Transport and Driving, Welcome Packs.
In Health: Child Health, Conditions, Forms and Signs, Health
Promotion, Immunisation and Screening, NHS Services, Pregnancy and
Childbirth, Rights and Responsibilities, Sexual Health
In Law: Domestic Abuse
Health Rights
Information Scotland
Information in the following languages and formats: Audio, British
Sign Language, Easy to read, Large print, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese,
Croatian, Farsi, French, Hindi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Pashto,
Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Somali, Sorani,
Spanish, Tigrinya and Urdu.
Multilingual
Health Information Directory (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde -
updated 2007)
Equip
(NHS West Midlands)
Links to sources of translated information and to support
groups and services
Multikulti
Information in Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Farsi,
French, Gujarati, Somali, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Urdu in the
following areas: debt, employment, health, education, immigration
and racism & discrimination.
Ethnicity Online
Cultural awareness in Healthcare
Project closed in 2005 but useful information is still online
including information on good practice and links to patient
information in Bengali/Sylheti, Farsi, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese
and Urdu.
HARPWEB health for
asylum-seekers and refugees portal
multilingual
appointment card
Muslim Health
Network
Information in English only
NON-UK
Ethnomed
(USA)
Patient information in Amharic, Chinese, Hmong, Karen, Khmer,
Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrinya, Vietnamese
NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
(Australia)
Patient information in a wide range of languages
Arabic
Reproductive Health Information Initiative
A Gynuity Health Project -
Gynuity develops educational materials on a range of maternal and
reproductive health issues.
Patient information in English and Arabic