Multicultural health websites

Australian sites

• Australian Medical Association (Victoria) – Online Doctor Search Search for General Practitioners (GPs) in Victoria by languages spoken.
• Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (Victoria). Includes Library with online catalogue, training information and multilingual health links page with list of websites providing access to health-related multilingual material.
• Cultural Diversity – A guide for Health Professionals (Queensland). The guide presents health and socio-cultural information on ethnic communities (including torture and trauma and issues and issues for children, young people and women). Includes community profiles.
• Health Translations Directory (Victoria). Search for multilingual health information online.
• Multilingual HIV/AIDS & Hepatitis C Information Website (Australia). Provides HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C information in 18 community languages. Maintained by the Multicultural HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C Service (MHAHS).
• NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW). Provides information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with CLD communities throughout New South Wales . Wide range of resources in community languages on various health issues.
• Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit (Victoria). Bilingual mental health professionals directory, research on Somali community and Khat, some multilingual resources relating to mental health.

International sites

• CultureMed (USA). The SUNY Institute of Technology library promotes culturally-competent health care for refugees and immigrants. Includes comprehensive bibliography on ethnic groups and health-related research.
• DiversityRX (USA). A US-based clearinghouse for information on health and diversity. Includes information on best practice models, policy, legal issues, links and a forum for networking.
• EthnoMed (USA). The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees. Includes profiles of communities also settling in Australia.
• Refugee Health ~ Immigrant Health (USA). Includes community profiles of various refugee populations, general health information, issues relating to torture and trauma, religion, women, models for care, etc.
• Transcultural Mental Health Online (International). Online journal relating to transcultural mental health research and perspectives.