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[Field Notes logo] Click Here: Web Sites for Health and Literacy
 
Field Notes main page Spring 2001 issue
 

Click Here: Web Sites for Health and Literacy

www.sccd.ctc.edu/~ssesl
Visiting the Doctor: Lessons in Language and Culture
Dialogues, readings, puzzles, and poems to help new arrivals to the U.S. navigate the health care system.

www.state.ma.us/dph/aids/hivaids.htm
Massachuetts HIV/AIDS Bureau
From this page, you can link to the Health Promotion Clearinghouse, which offers HIV/AIDS informational pamphlets available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Kreole, and Khmer.

www.state.ma.us/dph/clppp/clppp.htm
Welcome to the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, Department of Public Health
This site offers a Q&A on lead poisoning and other helpful information which you can request in non-English langugages.

yourchildshealth.echn.ca
Your Child's Health/Child Health Network, Toronto, Ontario
Child safety, nutrition, breastfeeding, poison prevention, and more.

www.sabes.org/health/jmannbk.htm
Caring About Community: A Workbook on Health Disease and Stroke
An excellent classroom resource produced by the Health Team at the Jackson Mann Community Center in Allston-Brighton, MA

www.prenataled.com/healthlit/hlt2k/script/index.asp
Health Literacy Toolbox 2000
Here you can find a health and literacy class online, ideas for simplifying the written word, and other resources for health and literacy.

www.noah-health.org
NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
Lots of material in both Spanish and English.

www.multilingual-health-education.net
MultiLingual Health Education Network
Provides information in a variety of languages. Search by topic, click "English" first, then see what other languages are available for that resource.

 
Originally published in: Field Notes, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Spring 2001)
Publisher: SABES/World Education, Boston, MA, Copyright 2001.
Posted on SABES Web site: April 2001
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Field Notes is a quarterly newsletter that provides a place to share innovative practices, new resources, information and hot topics within the field of adult education. It is published by SABES, the System for Adult Basic Education Support and funded by the federal Adult Education Act (S.353), administered by the Massachusetts Department of Education, Adult and Community Learning Services (ACLS) Unit.
 
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