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June, 2007 |
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Hispanic Health Program
CDC EN ESPAÑOL
WHAT IS THE PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM?
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Lack of accessible, credible and up-to-date portals of health and
safety information in Spanish. |
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In
a survey conducted by L.A. Care in 2000, 51% of doctors said that
their patients do not adhere to medical treatments because of
cultural and language barriers; 82% of physicians would make use of
translated material if made available to them. |
WHAT HAS CDC
ACCOMPLISHED?
The CDC
en Español website was released in 2000 and now contains over 1000 web
pages on health prevention and safety. The website received almost 3
million requests in 2002, and its home page is in the top 100 visited at
the CDC. A listserv, CDCSPAN, was created to allow subscribers to receive
notices in Spanish of new health information and safety alerts. Currently,
it has over 2743 subscribers from 39 countries. Approximately 54% of
subscribers are from the U.S.
Example of
program in action: |
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In 2002, almost 2500 public
inquiries were processed in Spanish; the number of listserv subscribers
has almost tripled since the beginning of 2001; the amount of web pages in
the CDC en Español website has increased from
200 to over 1000. The CDC en Español team
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participated in over 8 conferences nationally and abroad to promote the
website and its services, and has translated and certified almost 250,000
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WHAT ARE THE NEXT
STEPS?
Since the
release of CDC en Español, there has been increased interest for the
provision of more information in Spanish. To satisfy this interest, and to
comply with Language Access Plan (LAP)/Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
efforts at HHS and CDC, more resources have been allocated to support CDC
en Español. A multilingual services contract is being created to allow CDC
staff to have information translated to dozens of the most spoken
languages in the U.S. and the world.
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