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CANADIAN HEALTH RESOURCES:

• Canadian Health Network - Provides health information on a range of topics including nutrition, diseases, and substance abuse. Includes health industry and drug news.
  
  
• http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca Health Canada On Line, bilingual site.
  
  
• The Public Health Association of British Columbia - Preserves and promotes the public's health through disease and injury prevention, health promotion, health protection and healthful public policy.
  
  
• Canadian Public Health Association A national, independent, not-for-profit, voluntary association representing public health in Canada with links to the international public health community.
  
  
• http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/hlthfile One-page health fact sheets about a wide range of public and environmental health and safety issues produced by the Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Health, many of which are available in languages other than English.
  
  
• http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/cpa/publications/indexsvc.html Reports and publications on health issues produced by the Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Health.
  
  
• http://www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/exsites/bcsites.html Page of links to specific ailments and problems, and to sites of interest to residents of British Columbia (includes hospitals' addresses, health care facilities, and health care organization).
  
  
• http://www.city.burnaby.bc.ca/planning/child_contact.html List of British Columbia resources to access regarding childcare.
  

WORLDWIDE HEALTH RESOURCES:

• Diversity Rx Clearinghouse of information on how to meet the language and cultural needs of minorities, immigrants, refugees and other diverse populations seeking health care.
  
  
• Multicultural Health Communication Service - Multilingual Health Information available on site with Catalogue Online.
  
  
• http://www.health.state.mn.us/ Minnesota Department of Health site contains a variety of translated health materials.
  
  
• http://www.who.int/home-page World Health Organization (WHO) in English, French, and Spanish.
  
  
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• http://hna.ffh.vic.gov.au/phb/language.htm This Public Health Division, Department of Human Services, Victoria, Australia contains health related materials in various languages.
  

LANGUAGE RESOURCES:

• Embedding fonts, step by step, for typesetters and translators (PDF) or Embedding fonts, step by step, for typesetters and translators (Word97)  A one-page guide to ensuring the visiblity, in an Adobe Acrobat PDF, of non-Western and double-byte fonts (such as Chinese, Korean, Punjabi, Arabic, etc), or fonts that are not standard to common computer systems and software.
  
  
• Surrey Delta Immigrant Services Society - Interpretation and Translation Services in British Columbia, Canada.
  
  
• MOSAIC - Multilingual Orientation Service Agency for Immigrant Communities. Interpretation and Translation Services in British Columbia, Canada.
  
  
• The Plain Language Service - National Literacy and Health Program - It promotes awareness among health professionals of the links between literacy and health. CPHA's National Literacy and Health Program provides resources to help health professionals serve clients with low literacy skills more effectively. The program focuses on health information in plain language and clear verbal communication between health professionals and the clients they serve.
  
  
• http://www.health.state.mn.us/communityeng/multicultural/ translation.pdf - 338.0KB "Translation Protocol: A Guide to Translating Materials for Limited English-Speaking Communities" (2000). Minnesota Department of Health, U.S. http://www.health.state.mn.us/
  

MULTICULTURALISM AND DIVERSITY LINKS:

• http://www.amssa.org The Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies (AMSSA) of British Columbia is a coalition of over 80 organizations providing multicultural programs and immigrant settlement services throughout the Province of British Columbia.
  
  
• http://www.pch.gc.ca Valuing and strengthening the Canadian Heritage (French/English).
  
  

CHILDREN'S AND INFANT HEALTH RESOURCES:

• http://www.conava.gob.mx The Government of Mexico's site on Children' and Adolescent's health issues, includes a section on nutrition and a 'keep ourselves healthy' club for children to join (Spanish).
  
  
• http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/lung/ Asthma information in English and Spanish on various topics, including asthma-safe childcare settings.
  

WOMEN'S HEALTH:

• http://web.jet.es/amsalud/ Women's health issues site based in Spain with resources regarding trauma (sexual and physical abuse) and mental health issues (Spanish).
  
  
• http://www.w-h-c.de/ Women's Health Coalition in Germany.
  
  
• www.ipas.org IPAS A non-profit agency working to improving women's lives by focusing on reproductive health.

AIDS INFORMATION:

• http://www.catie.ca/network.html Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange, Canada (French/English).
  
  
• http://www.acon.org.au/education/education.htm AIDS Council of New South Wales (ACON).
  
  
• http://www.ssa.gob.mx/conasida National Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS, Mexico (Spanish).
  
  
• http://www.aidsvancouver.bc.ca