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From: james phillips <jphilip@tenet.edu>
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Subject: [NIFL-HEALTH:4101] RE: literacy/language/health
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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 español
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