{"id":16244,"date":"2021-02-22T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/ner\/?p=16244"},"modified":"2021-03-18T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T18:40:31","slug":"health-information-for-all-language-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2021\/02\/22\/health-information-for-all-language-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Information for All: Language Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/data.census.gov\/cedsci\/table?q=ACSDP1Y2019.DP02%20United%20States&amp;t=Language%20Spoken%20at%20Home&amp;g=0100000US_0200000US1&amp;tid=ACSDP1Y2019.DP02&amp;hidePreview=true\">According to the US Census Bureau<\/a> 22% of people in the US 5 years or older speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% speak English \u201cless than very well\u201d. In the Northeast, those percentages are slightly higher than the national average at 23.7% and 9.4% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>But what does that have to do with health? And how can we support these individuals and communities find linguistically appropriate, quality health information?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does language access have to do with health outcomes and health disparities? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/initiatives\/topics\/health-literacy\">What is Health Literacy?<\/a> \u201cHealth literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthypeople.gov\/2020\/tools-resources\/evidence-based-resource\/national-action-plan-improve-health-literacy\">Healthy People<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does Health Literacy affect health outcomes and economic impacts? <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/initiatives\/topics\/health-literacy#toc-8\">Low health literacy leads to poorer health outcomes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/initiatives\/topics\/health-literacy#toc-6\">higher healthcare costs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/initiatives\/topics\/health-literacy#toc-3\">How does language access affect Health Literacy?<\/a> A key part of health literacy is an individual\u2019s ability to understand and process health information. And a language barrier can hinder this understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/healthdisparities.html\">Learn more about health disparities on MedlinePlus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find more <a href=\"https:\/\/hsric.nlm.nih.gov\/hsric_public\/topic\/disparities\/\">NLM resources on health disparities and language disparities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How can we support our communities with linguistically appropriate health information? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/\">MedlinePlus<\/a> has translated health information in a wide array of languages on many of the health topics. There are several ways to find translated health information on MedlinePlus:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/spanish\/\">MedlinePlus is available completely in Spanish<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find a <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/languages\/languages.html\">full list of languages<\/a> with available<\/li>\n<li>Looking for information in languages other than English and Spanish on a specific health topic? If available, you can find a link to translated health information in a box linked on the right-hand side of the health topics page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resources from partners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/spanish\/\">CDC en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwn.cdc.gov\/pubs\/other-languages?Sort=Lang%3A%3Aasc\">CDC Resources in languages other than English<\/a>-Find translated factsheets, toolkits and more. Search by language or health topic.<\/li>\n<li>Find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/immigrantrefugeehealth\/\">immigrant and refugee health information from the CDC<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find resources and initiatives from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimhd.nih.gov\/\">National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Learn more with the US Department of Health and Human Services <a href=\"https:\/\/minorityhealth.hhs.gov\/\">Office of Minority Health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Looking to learn more about how you can serve LEP populations?\u00a0 NNLM has two versions of a training, From Beyond Our Borders: Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/class\/beyond-our-borders-providing-multilingual-and-multicultural-health-information-ches-cech\/25972\">One hour, on-demand, CHES CE eligible<\/a>-This version is available any time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/classes\/refugee\">MLA four contact hour CE Moodle<\/a>-Check back for the next instance of this class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the US Census Bureau 22% of people in the US 5 years or older speak a language other than English at home and 8.2% speak English \u201cless than very well\u201d. In the Northeast, those percentages are slightly higher than the national average at 23.7% and 9.4% respectively. But what does that have to&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/2021\/02\/22\/health-information-for-all-language-resources\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1173,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,10],"tags":[108,110,143],"class_list":["post-16244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-nlm_resources","tag-health-disparities","tag-health-literacy","tag-medlineplus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16246,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16244\/revisions\/16246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}