Improving Health Literacy  Tags: education literacy illiteracy health_literacy health_communications health_sciences health_behavior_and_health_education information_literacy  

Healthy Roads Media -- resources in 18 languages, 100 topics, 5 formats

ECHO (Emergency and Community Health Outreach) provides life-saving health and safety information in multiple languages.

MedlinePlus.gov Multiple Language List

Refugee Health Information Network Multilple Languages Page

SPIRAL (Selected Patient Information in Asian Languages)

EXTENSIVE, Multi-topic resources from Hawai'i AIDS Education and Training Center

Health Information Translations from The Ohio State University Medical Center, Mount Carmel Health System  and OhioHealth

From the Henry Ford Health System, Multilingual Health Information

University of Michigan Health Systems Program for Multicultural Health

Specifically about the "swine flu" in several languages, see Larry Ferlazzo's blog

All about hand washing -- sing it, watch it, draw it, color it in English, Creole, Spanish, French, and Portuguese at Henry the Hand

The CDC in multiple languages

English and Spanish handouts compiled from numerous sources, Community Care of North Carolina/Patient Management Tools

神保先生の日本家庭健康ポッドキャスト (Dr. Jimbo's Japanese Family Health Podcast)

CDC en Espanol

From Learning About Diabetes, colorful handouts to print in English and Spanish.

The Wellness Information Zone is a Humana Foundation project providing health information in everyday language. 

"This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3503 with the University of Illinois at Chicago.”