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.
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