General health

• Sydney Children's Hospital Network - translated child health information
• Children's Hospital Westmead - translated child health information
• Dental information - Dental Health Services Victoria - services, fact sheets including specific resources for children
• Department of Health, Victoria
  • Immunisation
  • Health translations directory and fact sheets by languages
• EthnoMED - patient education
• Health Navigator New Zealand - good selection of translated maternal and child health information
• HealthReach (formerly Refugee Health Information Network) (US) health information in multiple languages as well as links to other resources
• Health Information Translations (US) - wide range resources, includes audio
  
• NHS choices (UK) - also includes links to other sites
• National Institutes of Health (NIH) (US) - health information in multiple languages
• NPS medicine wise (Australia) - prescribing information
• NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
• Queensland Government - includes child health, nutrition, oral health, mental health
• Talking Pictures (NSW SWSLHD) - multilingual resource developed to aid basic communication in medical settings using pictures
  
• SPIRAL (US) - selected patient information in Asian languages (Khmer, Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese, etc.)
• US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants - translated Healthy Living Toolkit and resources on nutrition, strengthening families, domestic violence, financial literacy, and others

Disability

• ADEC - Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities - empowering people with disabilities from ethnic backgrounds, including translated information on ADEC services, respite, NDIS, group activities
• Autism - Massachusetts Act Early - Development and autism resources
• NDIS - Brotherhood of St Laurence - ECEI translated fact sheets (includes Arabic, Chin Hakka, Farsi, Karen, Punjabi, Chines, Urdu, Tagalog and Vietnamese)
• NDIS - translated information - available in: Auslan, Arabic, Chinese (simplified and traditional) Filipino (Tagalog) French, Greek, Hindi , Italian, Macedonian, Samoan, Spanish, Vietnamese. 
  • Fact sheets are labelled in English, but it is difficult to find the equivalent English information. The following fact sheets are included (English version links):
    • Language interpreting services
    • Participant booklets - available here
    • Mental health and the NDIS
  • Also see NDIS CALD strategy and Covid advice (not translated)
    

Mental health

• Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) - full website translated
• Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA) translated fact sheets and assessment tools. 
• NWS Transcultural Mental Health Centre (TMHC) - includes:  
  • Specific resources for children on anxiety, eating disorders, disruptive disorders and depression 
  • Consumer medication brochures
• Here to Help (Canada) - translated fact sheets on mental health and on substance use for children, teens, and adults
• Royal College Psychiatrists - translated fact sheets on a range of mental health issues - includes - Arabic, Farsi, Tamil, Pashto, Somali and Urdu (and others)

 Nutrition and healthy lifestyle

• Breastfeeding (La Leche League) - breastfeeding support in multiple languages
• Diabetes Australia - includes multilingual programs and resources, translated picture guides on healthy eating or exercise which can be ordered for free
• Diabetes - EthnoMED - includes country specific, picture-based and video healthy eating resources
• Diabetes during Ramadan - not translated, but useful resource
• Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood (Australian Government Dept of Health) - campaign for health eating and lifestyle
• Healthy Kids (NSW Min of Health, NSW Dept of Education, and the Heart Foundation) - healthy eating and lifestyle
  • Munch and move fact sheets (includes Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese
• Vitamin D fact sheets
• Photoboard of available vitamin D supplements
  

 Parenting, child development, disability

• Bringing Up Great Kids - full website translated
  
• Health Navigator New Zealand - good selection of translated maternal and child health information
  
• Raising Children - other languages
  • Sleep - babies, children, other tips, teens
  • Parenting in pictures

 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
  
• Safe medicine storage
• Pathology collection
• Iron dosing
• Caltrate dosing
• Riamet dosing chart
• TB medications dosage instructions
• Raising Children - Parenting by pictures
• My First Dental Visit - from Plenty Valley Community Health in English, Arabic, and Farsi/Persian
  
• 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
• My First Dental Visit - from Plenty Valley Community Health in English, Arabic, and Farsi/Persian
• Dental fact sheets
• 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
  
• The Hepatitis B Story - from St. Vincent's Hospital, in booklet or video format
• 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
• Tuberculosis - order multilingual DVD email: refugeehealth@sswahs.nsw.gov.au
• Vitamin D fact sheets

 Women's health

• Cervical cancer screening - 24 languages, and find a provider
• 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

Translated appointment reminder tools

• NSW refugee health appointment reminder translation tool- generates translated appointment reminders - quick and easy to use.
• Cancer Council Victoria multilingual printable appointment card

Bilingual health professionals

•  Directories of bilingual health professionals - see clinical psychologists, psychology, psychiatrists, dietitians, speech pathologists, pharmacists
  

_{Immigrant health resources. Initial Georgie Paxton and Anthea Rhodes. Revisions Karen Kiang, Sophie Oldfield. Last updated Sep 2020 Contact: georgia.paxton@rch.org.au}