Spanish-Language
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Introduction
This knowledge path has
been compiled by the Maternal
and Child Health Library at
Georgetown University. It points to recent,
high-quality Spanish-language health
resources for health professionals and
consumers. While most of the resources
cover a wide range of health topics,
we offer a selection in each section
that focuses on topics of interest to
families and professionals in the maternal
and child health (MCH) community. This
guide will be updated periodically.
Related topics: Please see our bibliography, Culturally
competent services, for
materials about assessing services for
cultural sensitivity, developing culturally
sensitive materials, and providing services
in a multicultural health care context.
For additional resources about cultural
competence, see our organizations
resource list.
Also see our knowledge paths about racial
and ethnic disparities in health and locating
community-based services to support children
and families.
Health Hotlines
Web Sites:
A-Z
- 24
Languages Project.
Provides access to over 200 health
education brochures in 24 different
languages, including Spanish. This
project is a collaborative effort
between the Spencer
S. Eccles Health Sciences Library,the Utah
Department of Health,
the Immunization
Action Coalition,
the Association
of Asian Pacific Community Health
Organizations,
and other groups interested in
improving access to health materials
in multiple languages.
- Advocates
for Youth: Publicaciones en Español.
Offers Spanish-language resources
about adolescent sexual and reproductive
health for health professionals,
parents, and adolescents. Advocates
for Youth aims to help young people
make informed and responsible decisions
about their reproductive and sexual
health.
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ)/Salud: Información
en Español.
Contains Spanish-language consumer
health information about health
care quality, prevention, and wellness;
choosing a health plan; medication
safety; and communicating with
doctors. AHRQ is an agency in the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- ¡Bien!
Border Health Information and Education
Network: Información en
Español.
Provides access to Spanish-language
health resources for health professionals
and consumers on a wide range of
topics.
¡Bien! is maintained by the Border
Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Center and the New Mexico Outreach
Office of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health
Commission to provide quality health
information to the people of the border
region.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) en Español/Centros
Para el Control y la Prevención de
Enfermedades.
Contains a wealth of resources
in Spanish for health professionals
and consumers about diseases, disabilities,
health promotion, and health issues
for specific populations (e.g.,
childhood immunization, adolescent
substance use). Other information
in Spanish includes health news;
conference information; a health
hotline;
and information about CDC, its
mission, and its centers. CDC is
an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
- Children's
Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota:
Patient/Family Education Materials
A-Z.
Offers a collection of Spanish-language
pediatric materials for families
about medical conditions and procedures,
medications, and first aid. Many
topics have illustrations and detailed
instructions about how to provide
care at home and when to call for
medical advice.
- EthnoMed.
Contains patient
education resources in
Spanish and several other languages
on the topics of cancer, cough/cold,
diabetes, diaper rash, fever, tuberculosis,
and vomiting/diarrhea. EthnoMed is
a service of the Harborview Medical
Center, University of Washington.
- Familydoctor.org/Información
en español de la Academia
Estadounidense de Médicos
de Familia.
Offers patient-education materials
for common medical concerns and
conditions. Visitors to the site
can toggle back and forth between
the English- and Spanish-language
versions of each item. Familydoctor.org
is a service of the American
Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP).
- FirstGov
en Español.
Provides information in Spanish
about federal government programs
and services with links to state
and local resources and to international
agencies. Topics include health
and nutrition. FirstGov is the
official Web site of the United
States government.
- Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) Foreign
Language Documents.
Links to FDA's consumer publications
in Spanish and other languages
about food, medicines, and cosmetics.
FDA is an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- healthfinder® en
Español.
Offers a gateway to Spanish-language
consumer health and human services
information from government and
nonprofit sources. healthfinder® is
a service of the National
Health Information Center, Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- Healthy
Roads Media.
Presents multilingual health education
information in written, audio,
and video formats. Spanish-language
materials cover topics such as
asthma, oral health, diabetes,
smoking, and domestic violence.
Healthy Roads Media is a project
of the Family
HealthCare Center,
a federally funded community health
center with clinic sites in Fargo,
North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota.
Over half of the clinic's patients
are refugees.
- Insure
Kids Now/Asegure a sus Hijos Ahora.
Contains information in Spanish
about SCHIP, links to each state's
program, and a telephone
hotline.
Insure Kids Now is a service of
the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- La
Leche League International /La
Liga de la Leche (LLL).
Offers breastfeeding education
materials in Spanish and contact
information for Spanish-speaking
breastfeeding support groups. LLL
aims to help mothers worldwide
to breastfeed through mother-to-mother
support, education, information,
and encouragement.
- March
of Dimes (MOD) en Español/Nacersano.
Contains fact sheets and other
resources in Spanish on a wide
range of pregnancy and infant-care
topics. MOD is a national organization
that strives to improve infants'
health by preventing birth defects
and infant mortality.
- MedlinePlus:
Información de Salud para
Usted.
Contains a selective list of authoritative
health information sources for
health professionals and families.
Includes links to Spanish-language
articles, medical encyclopedia
entries, interactive health tutorials,
fact sheets, diagrams, organizations,
and data for a wide range of health
topics. In addition, non-Spanish-speaking
health professionals looking for
Spanish-language materials for
their patients can click the
"Español" button on the English MedlinePlus pages
to view its corresponding Spanish-language
page. Also, the topic page, Hispanic
American Health,
links to organizations, news, research,
and other resources related to the
health of Hispanic Americans. MedlinePlus
is a health information service of
the National
Library of Medicine.
- Mi
Via.
Offers a free, confidential service
in English and Spanish that provides
an electronic and therefore transportable,
personal health record to migrant
and seasonal workers in California.
Stores critical health information
such as diagnosis, medications,
allergies, chronic conditions,
treatment plans, immunization records,
and test results. MiVIA is a collaborative
effort of Vineyard Worker Services,
St. Joseph Health Care Sonoma County,
and the Community Health Resource
and Development Center. MiVIA,
a scalable program, can be replicated
on a regional, statewide, and even
national level contributing to
the health and well being of farm
workers throughout the United States.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health.
Offers consumer health news and
fact sheets in Spanish and English,
information and publications about
health issues important to the
Hispanic community, links to other
Web resources, and health
hotlines.
The alliance is a network of health
and human service providers for
over 12 million Hispanic consumers
throughout the United States.
- National
Center for Cultural Competence
(NCCC) en Español/Centro
Nacional Para el Cuidado Médico
Culturalmente Apropiado.
Contains policy briefs and checklists
in Spanish for health professionals
and policymakers about designing,
implementing, and evaluating culturally
competent health services. Also
provides links to Spanish-language
health resources for families.
NCCC is part of the Georgetown
University Center for Child and
Human Development.
- National
Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH):
Patient education materials.
Presents a set of low-literacy
consumer health materials in English
and Spanish. Topics include nutrition,
diabetes, substance use, oral health,
and family planning.
- National
Council of La Raza (NCLR): Institute
for Hispanic Health/El Consejo
Nacional De La Raza: Instituto
Para La Salud Hispana.
Contains information and materials
about several health-education
programs targeting HIV/AIDS, diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, nutrition
and physical activity, and access
to health insurance in Hispanic
communities. Also contains health
news, conference information, and
links to Web resources, including
NCLR affiliates in each state.
NCLR's Institute for Hispanic Health
is dedicated to reducing the incidence,
burden, and impact of health problems
among Hispanic Americans.
- National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY) en Español:
Centro Nacional de Diseminación
de Información para Niños
con Discapacidades.
Provides a wealth of Spanish-language
resources for families, educators,
and other professionals on disabilities
and disability-related issues that
include specific disabilities such
as autism and more general topics
such as early intervention, special
education and related services,
individualized education programs,
family issues, education rights,
and transition to adult life. Also
includes contact information for
state resources and a section for
children and adolescents with disabilities
called iYojule!.
NICHCY is funded by the Department
of Education (ED).
- National
Institutes of Health (NIH) Spanish
Language/Institutos Nacionales
de la Salud.
Contains health resources in Spanish
such as news, publications, information
about clinical trials, and links
to other Spanish-language health
sites developed by the federal
government, including individual
NIH institutes. NIH is part of
the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- National
Network of Libraries of Medicine
(NN/LM): Consumer Health Materials
in Spanish.
Presents a list of agencies, organizations,
associations, and book and videotape
distributors that provide Spanish-language
consumer-health information. Also
offers a class handout and instructor
materials for its course, No
comprende? Spanish health information
resources for English speaking
librarians.
The course materials list Spanish-language
health resources for health professionals
and consumers. NN/LM is coordinated
by the National
Library of Medicine and
is carried out through a nationwide
network of health science libraries
and information centers.
- National
Women's Health Information Center
(NWHIC)/Recursos en Español.
Contains links to Spanish-language
health resources on a wide range
of women's health topics including
pregnancy, breastfeeding, heart
disease, diabetes, and domestic
violence. NWHIC is a project of
the Office
on Women's Health, Department
of Health and Human Services.
- New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH)/Acceso
Computerizado de la Salud en Nueva
York.
Links to evaluated, full-text consumer
health information in English and
Spanish on a wide range of topics.
NOAH is a partnership of several
New York City library organizations
that include the Brooklyn Public
Library, City University of New
York, the Metropolitan New York
Library Council, the New York Academy
of Medicine Library, the New York
Public Library, and the Queens
Borough Public Library.
- NSW
Multicultural Health Communication
Service.
Presents over 400 publications
on a wide range of health topics
in a variety of languages, including
Spanish. New publications are added
and outdated ones removed regularly.
The New South Wales Department
of Health in Australia funds the
service and endorses the multilingual
health information presented on
the Web site.
- Office
of Minority Health Resource Center
(OMHRC).
Offers Spanish-language
health materials for
consumers and health professionals.
OMHRC is part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO).
Contains public health data and
resources by population group and
health topic in English and Spanish.
PAHO is an international public
health agency for the countries
of the Americas and serves as a
regional office for the World Health
Organization.
- Spanish
Materials Project/El Proyecto de
Informacion en Español.
Contains a set of patient-education
materials in Spanish on topics
ranging from cancer to parenting.
The project is a collaborative
effort between the Spencer S. Eccles
Health Sciences Library and the
University of Utah Health Sciences
Center with funding from the National
Library of Medicine.
- Tox
Town en Español.
Offers information for consumers
about the connections between chemicals,
the environment, and the public's
health. Tox Town is a project of
the National
Library of Medicine.
Electronic Publications
- Anderson B, Fernandez
Cruz K, Popper B. 2005. Bright
Futures family pocket guide: Raising
healthy infants, children and adolescents/Bright
Futures guía para las familias:
Sugerencias para que los bebés,
niños y adolescentes crezcan
sanos. Boston,
MA: Family
Voices.
This Spanish-language guide addresses
what families might expect in the development
of their child at various ages and
stages and includes information about
health care and health professionals
as well as a list of additional resources.
- Berkow R, ed. 2005. Merck
manual of medical information for
the home/Manual Merck de informacion
medica para el hogar, 2nd ed.
Madrid, Spain: Merck Sharp
& Dohme de España, S.A.
This Spanish-language medical reference
for consumers includes information
about anatomy, diseases, medications,
and medical terminology.
- California
Childcare Health Program.
2004. Fact
sheets for families.
Oakland, CA: California Childcare
Health Program. These
fact sheets for families cover a
wide range of health and safety issues
and are available in English and
Spanish.
- Center
for Substance Abuse Treatment.
2004. What
is substance abuse treatment?: A
booklet for families/Que es el tratamiento
para el abuso de sustancias? Un folleto
para las familias. Rockville,
MD: Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
This Spanish-language booklet answers
questions about substance use treatment
and early recovery.
- Genetic
Alliance.
2004. Spanish
resources/Recursos en español.
Washington, DC: Genetic Alliance.
This fact sheet provides a list of
Spanish-language genetics resources
available on the Internet, from telephone
help lines, and as PowerPoint presentations.
The list also provides English translations
of the titles of the Spanish-language
resources.
- Gibson RW, Reiss JG.
2005. Envisioning
my future: A young person's guide to
health care transition/Imaginando mi
futuro: La transción del cuidado
de la salud.
Gainesville, FL: Institute
for Child Health Policy. This
booklet for adolescents and young adults
with special health care needs provides
general information about health care
transition and guidance for developing
a health care transition plan. The
booklet is available in English and
Spanish.
- Joshi PT, Lewin SM,
O'Donnell DA. 2002. Handbook
of frequently asked questions following
traumatic events: Violence, disasters,
or terrorism/Manual de preguntas hechas
frecuentemente cuando ocurren eventos
traumaticos: Violencia, desastres o
terrorismo.
Washington, DC: Children's
National Medical Center.
This handbook for health and education
professionals and families describes
child and adolescent reactions to stress,
coping mechanisms, stages of grief,
identification of children and adolescents
in need of help, and guidelines to
answer common questions children and
adults ask following acts of violence,
disasters, and terrorism. The handbook
is available in English and Spanish.
- Mayer R, Anastasi J,
Clark EM. 2006. What
to expect and when to seek help: A
Bright Futures developmental tool for
families and providers.
Washington, DC: National
Technical Assistance Center for Children's
Mental Health, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human
Development,
with National
Center for Education in Maternal and
Child Health (NCEMCH). This
set of publications in English and
Spanish is designed to help families
and professionals support the healthy
social and emotional development of
children and adolescents. The set includes
four tools about development during
infancy (birth through 12 months),
early childhood (ages 1-4), middle
childhood (ages 5-10), and adolescence
(ages 11-21).
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2004. My
family health portrait/Retrato de
salud de mi familia: La iniciativa
de historia familiar del cirujano
general.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This Spanish-language document is
part of the Surgeon General's national
initiative to improve health by encouraging
people to track their family health
history. It provides a chart of a
family tree that individuals can
fill in with family members' relevant
health information.
- Phillips J. 2005. A
su salud: Health information in Spanish,
rev. ed.
McAllen, TX: South
Texas College.
This annotated directory links to
Spanish-language health resources
from commercial, university, government,
and nonprofit organizations.
- Reiss J, Gibson R.
2005. Health
care transition workbooks/Cuadernos
de la transición del cuidado
de la salud.
Gainesville, FL: Institute
for Child Health Policy.
This set of three transition workbooks
is designed for adolescents and young
adults with special health care needs
and their parents to help determine
what needs to be done to ensure that
the transition from pediatric to adult-oriented
health care is smooth. The workbooks
are available in English and Spanish.
- Salud
En Acción: National Hispanic/Latino
Health Communication Research.
2004. Buena
vida.
San Antonio, TX: Baylor College of
Medicine. This set of three publications
available in English and Spanish
was developed to educate Hispanic
communities about cancer issues and
to raise awareness about prevention
and control activities that are intended
to reduce the burden of cancer among
medically underserved Hispanics/Latinos.
Topics are cervical cancer, family
cancer research, and breast cancer.
- Zero
to Three.
2004. On
the move: The power of movement in
your child's first three years/Niños
en movimiento: La importancia del
movimiento en los primeros tres años
del niño.
Washington, DC: Zero to Three. This
Spanish-language brochure, which
is geared toward parents, emphasizes
the ways in which movement, dance,
and active play can support infants'
and toddlers' growing physical awareness
and excitement about the world and
describes specific ways in which
physical activity stimulates young
children's development.
Print Publications
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
2004. Patient education for children,
teens, and parents, 2nd ed./Orientación
para niños, adolescentes y
padres. Elk Grove Village, IL: American
Academy of Pediatrics. See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the two-volume set.
- Batty PA, Kurko MJ.
2005. Spanish for the nutrition professional.
Chicago, IL: American
Dietetic Association (ADA).
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the book.
- Bender D, Maier M,
Stern I. 2005. Spanish for dental professionals:
A step by step handbook. Albuquerque,
NM: University
of New Mexico Press.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the book.
- Bongiovanni G. 2005.
Medical Spanish, 4th ed. New York,
NY: McGraw-Hill.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the book.
- Cotton CE, Tolman EE,
Mack JC. 2005. A su salud: Spanish
for health professionals. New Haven,
CT: Yale
University Press.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
this set of materials that includes
two DVDs, one CD-ROM, and one workbook.
- Joyce EV, Villanueva
ME. 2004. Say it in Spanish: A guide
for health care professionals, 3rd
ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the book.
- Mosby. 2004. Spanish
terminology for the dental team/Terminologîa
en español para el equipo dental.
St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the book and CD-ROM.
- Ríos J, Fernández
Torres J. 2004. Spanish for healthcare
providers: Practical medical Spanish
for quick and confident communication.
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
See publisher's description
and ordering information for
the textbook, test booklet, and three
CD-ROM set. Rios and Torres have developed
similar medical
Spanish sets for
other health specialties.
Databases
The databases listed below
are excellent tools for identifying additional
Spanish-language health resources. Many
of the entries below contain tips on
how to use the databases efficiently.
Please note that databases vary in how
terms should be entered; for example,
some require quotation marks and others
don't. Enter search phrases as shown
in bold below.
- AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
Contains bibliographic information
for agricultural literature including
many child and adolescent nutrition
publications from the USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service; state child
nutrition agencies; Nutrition Education
and Training Program products;
Team Nutrition grantees; cooperative
extension program materials; and
materials from associations, universities,
and the private sector. AGRICOLA
is organized into two data sets
(books and journal articles). To
identify Spanish-language materials
and/or articles in Spanish, click
on Search under the heading, More
search options. Enter the term Spanish and
select Language in the field labeled "In" to
the right. In the next row, enter
your topic of interest (e.g., nutrition).
Use the thesaurus to
identify search terms. You may
click on "Set Limits" to narrow
your search (e.g., add a publication
date limit). AGRICOLA is a service
of the National
Agricultural Library (NAL).
- Food
and Nutrition Information Center
(FNIC) Databases.
Contains information about evaluated
food and nutrition education and
training materials, research reports,
and other resources for nutrition
educators and other health professionals,
school food service and child nutrition
personnel, and consumers. To identify
Spanish-language materials, check
the Language box in the Advanced
Search section of the search form
and select Spanish. To narrow your
search, enter a topic (e.g., breastfeeding)
in the Simple Search field. FNIC
is located at the National
Agricultural Library.
- Maternal
and Child Health Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
several databases to collect, manage,
and disseminate knowledge about
MCH, with special emphasis on knowledge
gained from initiatives and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
Use the Languages
Index to
identify resources written in many
non-English languages, including
Spanish. For searches on particular
MCH topics, you may search the
databases separately, as follows:
MCHLine®.
Comprises an online catalog of
materials in the Maternal and
Child Health Library. To identify
materials in Spanish, type "Spanish
language materials" in the
keyword field of the database
search form.
To narrow your search, add keywords
such as "infant care", immunization, "oral
health", or pregnancy.
Or add a publication year or range
of years.
MCH
Organizations Database.
Lists over 2,000 government, professional,
and voluntary organizations involved
in MCH activities, primarily at
a national level. Organizations
that offer Spanish-language materials
appear in a list produced
from the database.
MCH
Projects Database.
Comprises an online catalog of
projects funded by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
MCHB has funded several projects
that developed Spanish-language
materials. To identify the projects,
enter the term "Spanish language
materials" in the simple search
field of the database
search form.
- PubMed.
Contains over 17 million citations
for biomedical articles that date back
to the 1950s. These citations are from
MEDLINE and additional life science
journals. PubMed includes links to
many sites providing full-text articles
and other related resources. To identify
articles in Spanish, enter your topic
of interest. Then, click on Limits,
and select Languages: Spanish. Selecting
a publication date range, type of article,
and/or ages will further limit your
search. To identify articles about
health education among Hispanic Americans,
enter the phrase (health education
OR patient education) AND Hispanic
Americans in the search box. To
narrow your search, add search terms
and/or click on Limits and select a
publication date; ages; and/or type
of article.. Use MeSH to
help you identify additional search
terms. PubMed is a service of the National
Library of Medicine.
Related search tools include
BabelMeSH:
Multilanguage Search for MEDLINE/PubMed/Búsqueda
MEDLINE/PubMed en Español.
This search tool allows you to search
PubMed in Spanish. Spanish medical
terms or phrases can be entered in
the search form, and the citations
returned will be in English. This
tool by the National
Library of Medicine is
under development, and feedback is
encouraged.
PubMed
Enhanced Search/Búsqueda Mejorada
en PubMed.
This tool is available in English
and Spanish. It offers a guided search
of PubMed by asking questions about
the type of article a user is looking
for with reminders about search features
such as truncation and MeSH terms
to improve search results. This tool
is a service of the University
of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio.
Author: Susan Brune
Lorenzo, M.L.S., Maternal and Child Health
Library.
Reviewers: Isabella Lorenzo-Hubert,
M.Ed., National Center for Cultural Competence;
Ivonne Martinez, Dahlgren Medical Library;
Olivia Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., Maternal
and Child Health Library.
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