Return-Path: <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h84HnF729491; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:49:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 13:49:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3F5762F9.D1892CB1@tenet.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: james phillips <jphilip@tenet.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-health@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4101] RE: literacy/language/health X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 3407 Lines: 79 Hi Leigh-Ann, Thank you very much for the site info. Mil gracias. Muy amable. james Leigh-Ann Topfer wrote: > Hi James, > > If you are interested in health technology assessment (HTA) / evidence based medicine information sources in Spanish, Toni Parada, the librarian at the Catalan Agency for Health Technology Assessment, in Barcelona, has done a lot of work on this. He has a list of Spanish medical web portals on their web site at: http://www.aatrm.net/cgi-bin/frame.pl/ang/links.html and has done a lot of training on Spanish language resources in health care, etc. Toni's e-mail is: tparada@aatrm.catsalut.net (He's also the author of an e-book chapter on Spanish language HTA resources, available on the National Library of Medicine web site at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/ehta/chapter9.html) > > Hope this is of some help. Cheers, > Leigh-Ann > > Leigh-Ann Topfer > Research Officer > Canadian Coordinating Office for Health Technology Assessment (CCOHTA) > c/o AHFMR, Suite 1500, 10104-103 Ave > Edmonton, AB > Canada T5J 4A7 > > phone: (780) 423-5727 / fax: (780) 429-3509 > e-mail: leigh-ann.topfer@ahfmr.ab.ca > web site: http://www.ccohta.ca > > > -----Original Message----- > From: james phillips [mailto:jphilip@tenet.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 5:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4097] literacy/language/health > > Hi and Hola, > > Everyone has been sending me some fantastic site suggestions. I > have many of the sites already on one or more of my web pages and some > of the lists sent today even have my web page 'a su salud.' > Surprisingly, no one ever connects me with the web page. > > I'm located here 9 miles from Mexico, in tropical deep south > Texas. More than 90% of the residents are bilingual, at many different > levels. And, 40% of the migrants and 40% of the farmworkers of Texas > live in this county, Hidalgo. > > South Texas Community College has 15,000 students. I'm at the > Nursing and Allied Health Center campus and there's 1000 students. And, > more than 90% of these students are bilingual. However, medical Spanish > isn't a requirement. But, it should be. And, I think there should be > changes. > > That's why I've gone worldwide promoting 'health information in > Spanish' and the Spanish language. And, I'm crossing the curriculum > again into 'literacy', 'health literacy', 'ESL, the Spanish language, > libraries, and more. Right now, I'm on Medlib, nahrs, caphis, nnlmscr, > Mlaics-L, and FLTEACH listservs. And, now, the NIFL-Health. > > I'm interested in literacy also---oral language literacy, written > language literacy, secondary language acquisition, health information, > and more. But, I'm concentrating now on 'health information in > Spanish'. I'm on a mission. I've been here less than 2 years. I can't > wait for the college to change its policy and make medical Spanish a > requirement. And, I don't think any other part of the world can wait. > Emergency rooms and hospitals and clinics and patients can't wait. > james > > James Phillips, MLS > Librarian > South Texas Community College > Dr. Ramiro R. Casso Nursing and Allied Health Center > 1101 East Vermont > McAllen, Texas 78501 > 956-683-3121 > 956-683-3190 (fax) > www.stcc.cc.tx.us > www.stcc.cc.tx.us/nah > phillips@stcc.cc.tx.us > jphilip@tenet.edu > se habla espaƱol
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