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> From: Pratima Devichand <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi,
> I would like to know about existing health resources in Canada
> that are available in different languages.  I would liek to focus
> on resources for people from different cultures for whom english may
> be a second language.

Pratima,

I seem to recall there was a similar thread a couple months back.

I wonder if the new electronic health information centre is going to make
this a priority, it seems that communities outside of the big cities would
also have a need to obtain and distribute information on a range of topic
to people who's language is other then English.
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> I am the coordinator of the Cultural Health Information &
> Interpreting Service (Nova Scotia) where one of many goals is to
> partner with health organizations and produce health resources in
> different languages and using culturally appropriate language.

I am concerned that many people are reinventing the wheel and overall we
are not focusing on improving access to resources.  I know that a lot of
resources on violence against women were produced in Ontario in all kinds
of language.  So why should each community take resources to reproduce the
same thing when we could just improve access for everyone.  Would it not be
wonderful to have a web site where we could just d/load or order resources
as we work on issues?
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> I would appreciate any suggestions that you may have about topics
> that urgently need to be covered, and also samples that we could use
> as guides in developing resources for Nova Scotia.

So I am suggesting a country wide or wider inventory of basic resources and
thinking that we need to focus on improving access.

But that is off the top of my head, so likely many more people can tell you
stuff,

S


Sherrie Tingley
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