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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 español
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