Ann,

This is not an answer to your question, but you might be interested in a
report published by the Cross Cultural Communication Centre in Toronto
entitled Appropriate Models in Healthcare for Somali Women.  I have not seen
it, but it is the product of a project co-sponsored by the Somali Immigrant
Women's Support Group and the CCCC.

You can contact the CCCC at (416) 760-7855, or [log in to unmask]

Keith Denny
Health Resource & Wellness Centre
168 Bathurst St.
Toronto, ON M5V 2R4

At 01:54 PM 10/20/97 -0600, you wrote:
>We have an organized group of women from Somalia who have expressed a number
>of concerns to do with health and access to the health system.
>
>As one issue, they have asked for support to translate the "after care"
>information given to parents at the time of immunization.  Before this work
>is undertaken, we want to know if anyone else has already done a translation
>of this kind of information into Somali.
>
>We've contacted Toronto and Vancouver's public health organizations and have
>found, so far, that Toronto has translated info on Hep B and TB.
>
>Could you please let me know, in the course of this week, if you have any
>other leads, in Canada or elsewhere.  If you know of other health info
>translated into Somali, that would be of interest as well so we don't
>recreate what already exists.
>
>Thank you!  Much appreciated.
>
>Ann Goldblatt, Eastwood Public Health Centre
>7919 118 Avenue
>Edmonton, Alberta
>T5B 0R5
>403-413-5642
>
>