Migrant, refugee and CALD communities (adapted from RCH’s Immigrant Health Service)
● NSW Emergency Care Institute fact sheets in English and translations in Arabic, Chinese simplified and traditional, Greek, Korean and Vietnamese
● Cancer Council Victoria has a web app that allows healthcare providers to create a multilingual healthcare appointment card
● The NDIS website contains a number of translated information sheets on disability services available in: Auslan, Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional) Filipino (Tagalog) French, Greek, Hindi , Italian, Macedonian, Samoan, Spanish, Vietnamese.
■ Language interpreting services
● The Victorian Department of Health has a series of translated resources and fact sheets by languages
Safe medication prescribing
● NPS medicine wise (Australia) - prescribing information
Maternal & child health
● Health Navigator New Zealand - good selection of translated maternal and child health information
Dental health
● Dental information - Dental Health Services Victoria - services, fact sheets including specific resources for children
· NRCHC, cohealth and other local CHC offer low cost dental programs.
Mental health
· EDMH is on x12032
● Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA) translated fact sheets and assessment tools.
● Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) - full website translated
● NWS Transcultural Mental Health Centre (TMHC) - includes:
○ Specific resources for children on anxiety, eating disorders, disruptive disorders and depression
○ Consumer medication brochures
● Royal College Psychiatrists - translated fact sheets on a range of mental health issues - includes - Arabic, Farsi, Tamil, Pashto, Somali and Urdu
Picture-based health information
● Easidose - web-based pictorial prescribing aid - addressing language and literacy barriers
● General dosing instructions - print on appropriate size stickers, then combine as needed
● Hepatitis B Story - from St. Vincent's Hospital, in booklet or video format
● Talking Pictures (NSW SWSLHD) - multilingual resource to aid basic communication in medical settings using pictures
Specific conditions
● Asthma (National Asthma Council of Australia) - translated information
● "Catch up vaccinations for refugees and asylum seekers in Victoria" fact sheets - in English, Amharic, Arabic, Burmese, Chin Hakha, Dari, Farsi, Karen, and Tamil
● Cancer Council Victoria - information sheets
● Coronavirus - DHHS, Department of Health, Department of Home Affairs and RCH translated Covid resources
● Diabetes Australia - includes multilingual programs and resources, translated picture guides on healthy eating or exercise which can be ordered for free
● Diabetes during Ramadan - not translated, but useful resource
● Down syndrome - Down Syndrome Victoria
● Incontinence - Continence Foundation of Australia - translated information on incontinence
● Kidney education - wide range of renal conditions - 37 languages
● Tuberculosis (Northern Territory Dept of Health) - translated information on TB testing and treatment including TST LTBI and TB
Women's health
● Cervical cancer screening - 24 languages and find a provider service
● Royal Women's Hospital translated fact sheets (women's health) - see bottom right corner to select language
Other
● Humanitarian settlement program and fact sheets in English, Arabic, Assyrian, Burmese, Dari, Farsi, Karen, Nepali, Somali, Swahili, Tigrinya
● National Literacy Trust (UK) Black lives matter reading lists for 0-16y - exploring race, identity, family and community
Bilingual health professionals
● Directories of bilingual health professionals - see clinical psychologists, psychology, psychiatrists, dietitians, speech pathologists, pharmacists