Introduction
This knowledge
path has been compiled by the MCH Library at
Georgetown University. It points to current,
high-quality Spanish-language health
resources for health professionals and
consumers. The first section presents
general resources that cover a wide range
of health topics,
while the second section lists resources
that focus on specific aspects of maternal
and child health. This
knowledge path will be updated periodically.
General Resources
Health
Hotlines and Helplines
Websites
- Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ)/Salud: Información
en Español.
Contains Spanish-language consumer
health information about health
care quality, prevention, and wellness;
choosing a health plan; and medication
safety. AHRQ is the health services
research arm of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Initiatives include
Be
a Superhero/Superhéroes. Presents
tips on ways to stay healthy and
talk with a doctor, recommendations
on preventive testing, help in
understanding prescriptions, and
a glossary of medical terms. Superhéroes
is a public service campaign that
urges Hispanics to stay healthy
for their loved ones by visiting
their doctor for regular screenings.
- American
Academy of Family Physicians: familydoctor.org
en Español.
Presents Spanish-language consumer
information about medical conditions
and illnesses,
health
promotion, health insurance, over-the-counter
medications, and health information
for women, men, families, and senior
citizens.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Patient
Education
Online. Presents a
collection of patient-education handouts
on infant, child, and adolescent health
and safety topics. Most materials are
available in English and Spanish.
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) en Español/Centros
Para el Control y la Prevención
de Enfermedades.
Contains a wealth of information
in Spanish for health professionals
and consumers about diseases and
conditions; health
promotion; emergency preparedness
and response; travelers' health;
life stages and populations (e.g.,
infants and children); and workplace
safety and health. Other resources
in Spanish include data;
podcasts;
health news;
conference information; and information
about CDC, its mission, and its
centers. CDC is
an agency of the Department
of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
- Children's
Health Fund (CHF): Health Education.
Presents health-promotion materials
in English and Spanish for children
and
their families. Materials adhere
to low-literacy writing and design
conventions.
Topics include promoting healthy
behaviors,
growth and
development,
preventing disease, and managing
chronic illness. CHF is committed
to providing health care to the
nation's most
medically
underserved children and their
families.
- Children's
Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota:
Patient/Family Education Materials
A-Z.
Offers a collection of Spanish-language
health education handouts
for families about medical conditions
and procedures,
medications, first aid, infant
care, and well-child health visits.
The handouts are written in
English on one side and Spanish
on the other. Many
handouts have illustrations.
- healthfinder® en
Español.
Offers a gateway to Spanish-language
consumer health information from government and
nonprofit sources. healthfinder® is
a service of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- Health
Information Translations.
Offers a wealth of translated health-education
materials that are written in English
on one side and Spanish
on the other. Materials are organized
by category as follows:
disaster preparedness, diagnostic tests,
diseases
and medical conditions, exercise and
rehabilitation, nutrition, health and
wellness, home care, pain and comfort,
pediatrics, pregnancy and infant care,
safety, stress and coping, and surgeries
and treatments. The site also offers
a
set of common hospital signs
for hospitals,
clinics, emergency response teams,
and others who assist the public during
emergencies and at other times. Health
Information Translations is presented
by health-education professionals
from Ohio State
University Medical Center, Mount
Carmel Health System, and OhioHealth.
- Healthy
Roads Media.
Presents multilingual health-education
information in written, audio,
and video formats. Spanish-language
materials cover a wide range of
topics about diseases and conditions,
medications, immunizations, infant
care, child health, women's health,
mental health, oral
health, nutrition, emergencies,
and domestic violence. Healthy
Roads
Media is
supported by the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- KidsHealth.
Contains a wealth of doctor-approved
information in English and Spanish
for parents, children, and adolescents
on topics that include child
and adolescent
development, nutrition,
physical activity,
chronic
illnesses and disabilities, medical
and surgical conditions
and treatments, first aid,
safety, and parenting.
KidsHealth
is a service
of the Nemours Foundation's Center
for Children's Health Media.
- Medical
Library Association: Descifrando
el Lenguaje Médico.
Presents a glossary of medical terms
and
their definitions in Spanish and
an English translation of the
terms.
- MedlinePlus:
Información de Salud para
Usted.
Provides links to a wealth of health
information in Spanish about medical
conditions, diseases, and wellness.
Also presents information
about prescription and over-the-counter
medicines,
herbs, and supplements; an online
medical encyclopedia; interactive
health tutorials; health news;
and videos of surgical procedures.
In addition, non-Spanish-speaking
health professionals looking for
Spanish-language materials for
their patients can click the
"Español" button on an English-language
MedlinePlus page
to view its corresponding Spanish-language
page. The topic page Hispanic
American Health links
to organizations, news, research, and
other resources related to the
health of Hispanic Americans. The magazine, NIH
MedlinePlus Salud, presents Spanish-language
health information for consumers. MedlinePlus
is a health information service of
the National
Library of Medicine.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health.
Offers consumer health fact sheets
and publications in Spanish and
English. Also provides news and
legislative information about
health issues important to the
Hispanic community and toll-free health
hotlines. The alliance is
a network of health and human service
providers for over 15 million Hispanic
consumers throughout the United States.
- National
Center for Cultural Competence
(NCCC) en Español.
Contains policy briefs and checklists
in Spanish for health professionals
and policymakers about designing,
implementing, and evaluating culturally
and linguistically competent health
and mental health services. Also
provides personal stories in Spanish
about families' experiences with
the
health care system and links to
Spanish-language health resources
for families.
NCCC is part of the Georgetown
University Center for Child and
Human Development.
- National
Institutes of Health (NIH)/Institutos
Nacionales de la Salud: Institutos
y Centros.
Contains links
to the Spanish-language health
websites developed by individual
NIH institutes. Also presents NIH
Radio en Español, a
collection of MP3 audio reports
and their transcripts on consumer
health topics. NIH is part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- New
York Online Access to Health (NOAH)/Acceso
Computerizado a la Salud de Nueva
York.
Links to evaluated, full-text consumer
health information in English and
Spanish on a wide range of topics.
NOAH is a partnership of several
New York City library organizations.
- NSW
Multicultural Health Communication
Service.
Presents approximately 450 publications
on a wide range of health topics
in a variety of languages, including
Spanish. New publications are added
and outdated ones are removed regularly.
The New South Wales Department
of Health in Australia funds the
service and endorses the multilingual
health information presented on
the website.
- Office
of Minority
(OMH)/Oficina de Salud de las
Minorías.
Offers Spanish-language health
information on a wide range
of health topics, a profile about
the health of Hispanic Americans,
and health news. OMH is
part of the Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- womenshealth.gov:
El Centro Nacional de Información
sobre la Salud de la Mujer.
Contains links to Spanish-language
health resources on a wide range
of women's health topics including
pregnancy, breastfeeding, heart
disease, diabetes, and nutrition.
NWHIC is a project of the Office
on Women's Health, Department
of Health and Human Services.
Additional
Electronic Publications
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD). 2006. Adventures
in parenting: How responding, preventing,
monitoring, mentoring, and modeling
can help you be a successful parent/Qué significa
ser padres?: Guia para ayudarles a
tener éxito como padres y madres
de familia. Bethesda, MD: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
Institute of Child Health and Human
Development (NICHD).
[Booklet].
- Mayer
R, Anastasi J, Clark EM. 2006. What
to expect and when to seek help: A
Bright Futures developmental tool for
families and providers.
Washington, DC: National
Technical Assistance Center for Children's
Mental Health, Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human
Development,
with National
Center for Education in Maternal and
Child Health (NCEMCH). [Guide, Referral
tool].
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2009. My
family health portrait/Mi historia de salud familiar.
Washington, DC: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
[Chart].
- Office
of Women's Health (OWH).
2008. My bright
future: Physical activity and healthy eating guide
for adult women/Mi futuro será brillante: Actividad física
y alimentación
saludable --
Para mujeres adultasas. Rockville, MD: Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). [Booklet, Tip sheets].
- Zero
To Three: National Center for Infants,
Toddlers, and Families.
2007. Everyday
ways to support your baby's and toddler's
early learning/Formas cotidianas de
apoyar el
aprendizaje temprano
de su bebé y niño pequeño.
Washington,
DC: Zero To Three: National Center
for Infants, Toddlers, and Families.
[Fact sheet]..
Databases
The databases listed below
are excellent tools for identifying additional
Spanish-language health resources. Many
of the entries below contain tips on
how to use the databases efficiently.
Please note that databases vary in how
terms should be entered; for example,
some require quotation marks and others
don't. Enter search phrases as shown
in bold below.
- Discretionary
Grant Information
System (DGIS). Contains
information about grants issued
by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB),
including grants that develop Spanish-language
materials as part of their work.
To identify
these projects,
click on
Abstracts, enter Spanish in
the Search Word or Phrase field,
and click on
Search to get your results.
- MCH Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
several databases to collect, manage,
and disseminate knowledge about
maternal and child health (MCH),
with special emphasis on knowledge
gained
from
initiatives
and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
Use the Non-English
Materials and Resources Index to
identify resources written in many
non-English languages, including
Spanish. For searches on particular
MCH topics, you may search the
databases separately, as follows:
MCHLine®.
Comprises an online catalog of
materials in the MCH Library. To identify
materials in Spanish, type "Spanish
language materials" in the
keyword field of the database
search form.
Enter the code as it is shown,
and click on Search to get your
results.
To narrow your search, add keywords
such
as "infant
care", immunization, "oral
health", or pregnancy.
Or add a publication year or range
of years.
- PubMed.
Contains over 20 million citations
for biomedical articles from MEDLINE
and life science journals. Citations
may include links to full-text articles
from PubMed Central or publisher websites. To identify citations in Spanish,
enter your topic
of interest in the search box. Use
the MeSH
(Medical Subject Headings) database to
identify search terms. Click
on Limits, and select Languages:
Spanish. Selecting
a publication date range and/or ages
will further limit your
search. PubMed
is a service of the National
Library of Medicine.
Related search tools include
BabelMeSH:
Multilanguage Search
for MEDLINE/PubMed/Búsqueda
MEDLINE/PubMed en Español.
This search tool allows you to search
PubMed in Spanish. Spanish medical
terms or phrases can be entered
in the search form, and the citations
returned will be in English. This
tool by the National
Library of Medicine is
under development, and feedback
is encouraged.
- Also see AGRICOLA,
the Child
Welfare Information Gateway, the Food
and Nutrition Information Center
(FNIC), and the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource
Center (OHRC) Library.
Resources
on Specific Maternal and Child Health
Topics
Child
Care
Child Maltreatment
- Childhelp
National Child Abuse Hotline. Call for help with reporting
child abuse and neglect or to speak with a counselor. The hotline
is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis
counselors who, through interpreters,
can provide assistance in 170 languages, including Spanish. The
hotline offers crisis intervention, information, literature, and
referrals
to thousands
of emergency, social service, and support resources. All calls
are anonymous and confidential. Telephone: (800)
422-4453 (4-A-CHILD).
- Child
Welfare Information Gateway: Resources
in Spanish.
Presents Spanish-language resources
on child abuse and neglect prevention
and intervention, child protective
services, foster care, and adoption. Search the gateway library for additional
Spanish-language child welfare resources
by entering spanish in
the keyword field. Narrow your search
by adding keywords or
a publication year. Click on Go to
get your results. The gateway
is
a
service
of the Department
of Health and Human Service (DHHS).
Consumer Safety
Diabetes
Domestic Violence
Drug and Alcohol
Use
Environmental
Health
Mental Health and Well-Being
- About
Our Kids en Español.
Presents information in Spanish for professionals
and families about child and adolescent
mental health challenges and parenting.
Resources include science-based
articles, newsletters, a glossary
of medical terms, and lists
of recommended resources.
About Our Kids is a resource of
the New York University Child
Study Center.
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP): Información
para la Familia.
Offers a set of Spanish-language
fact sheets for
families on a wide range
of topics about healthy social
and emotional development as well as emotional,
behavioral, and mental health challenges in
children and adolescents.
- American
Psychological Association (APA)
Help Center/El Centro de Apoyo
de la APA. Gives
information in Spanish
about work and school, family and
relationships, health and emotional
wellness, and talking to a psychologist.
- National
Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI)/La Alianza Nacional de
Enfermedades Mentales. Presents Spanish-language
fact sheets, a newsletter, electronic
discussion groups, and educational
programs about emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges.
NAMI is a national support and
advocacy organization. Telephone: (800) 950-6264 (English
or Spanish).
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) en Español.
Presents information and publications in Spanish for families about mental illness and substance abuse prevention and treatment.
- Miles P, Bruns EJ, Osher
TW, Walker JS, National Wraparound
Initiative Advisory Group. 2007. The
wraparound process user's guide:
A handbook for families/Manual de
usuario del proceso del
wraparound (asistencia integral):
Una guia para familias. Portland,
OR: Research
and Training Center on Family
Support and Children's Mental
Health.
- Also see the National
Dissemination Center for Children
with Disabilities (NICHCY). For resources
about depression during and after
pregnancy, see sexual
and reproductive health.
Nutrition
- AGRICOLA
(AGRICultural OnLine Access).
Contains bibliographic information
for agricultural literature including
many child and adolescent nutrition
publications from USDA's Food
and Nutrition Service; state child
nutrition agencies; Nutrition Education
and Training Program products;
Team Nutrition grantees; cooperative
extension program materials; and
materials from associations, universities,
and the private sector. AGRICOLA
is organized into two data sets
(books and articles). To
identify Spanish-language materials,
click on Keyword Search under Books
or Articles. First select Set
Limits in the bottom right corner
of the
search box. Select Language: Spanish;
select a date range; and click
on Set Limits. Next, enter your
topic of interest (e.g., nutrition).
Use the thesaurus to
identify search terms. AGRICOLA
is a service of the National
Agricultural Library (NAL).
- ChooseMyPlate.gov en Español. Presents
a nutrition-education tool in English
and Spanish that translates nutritional
recommendations into the kinds
and amounts of food to eat each
day based on a person's age, gender,
and activity level. ChooseMyPlate is
a resource of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- Food
and Nutrition Information Center
(FNIC) Databases.
Presents a collection of databases
about evaluated food and nutrition
education and training materials
and research reports for nutrition
educators and other health professionals,
school food service and child nutrition
personnel, and consumers. FNIC
is located at the National
Agricultural Library. Databases
with Spanish-language materials
are
Healthy
Meals Resource System Education
and Training Materials Database.
Presents information about educational
materials for school personnel
and others working in child nutrition
programs. To identify Spanish-language
materials, browse Search by Keyword
and click on Spanish Language Materials.
SNAP-Ed
Connection Resource Finder Database. Presents information
about training and continuing education
resources for nutrition educators
working with audiences with low incomes.
To find Spanish-language materials,
click on Advanced Search. Enter a
search term (e.g., breastfeeding),
scroll to Select a language, select
Spanish, and click on Search to
get your results.
WIC
Education and Training Materials
Database.
Contains information about
books, brochures, training kits,
videotapes, posters, and other
resources that can be used
in staff training or participant
education for the Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants,
and
Children (WIC). To find Spanish-language
materials, select Language: Spanish;
select a topic, format, or
user group; and select Search to
get your results.
- La
Leche League International /La
Liga de la Leche (LLLI).
Offers breastfeeding-education
materials in Spanish and an online
Spanish-speaking breastfeeding-support
group. LLLI aims to help mothers
worldwide
to breastfeed through mother-to-mother
support, education, information,
and encouragement.
- Nutrition.gov
en Español.
Links to Spanish-language food and
nutrition information from
federal agencies. Topics include
dietary
guidelines and weight management,
meal planning, and
federal nutrition-assistance programs.
Oral Health
- National
Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource
Center (OHRC) Library.
Presents a collection of materials
to assist health professionals,
program administrators, educators, policymakers, and others
in improving oral health services
for pregnant women, infants, children,
and adolescents. Includes oral health materials for consumers.
To identify Spanish-language
oral health materials, click on Browse materials under the Non-English Language Materials section. Select click on Spanish.
OHRC is supported
by MCHB, and it collaborates
with the MCH Library on
its oral-health-collection development.
Sexual
and Reproductive Health
- Advocates
for Youth: Publicaciones en Español. Contains
Spanish-language publications for health professionals, policymakers,
and families about adolescent sexual and reproductive
health. Topics include sexuality education, HIV and sexually transmitted
disease prevention, contraception, and adolescent pregnancy. Advocates
for Youth aims to help adolescents and young adults make informed
and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
- Health
Information: Pregnancy. Presents
fact sheets in Spanish on pregnancy,
childbirth, breastfeeding, and serious
pregnancy and fetal conditions. This information
is presented by the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill Center for Maternal and Infant
Health.
- March
of Dimes (MOD) en Español/Nacersano.
Contains information in Spanish
about preconception, pregnancy,
and infant
care.
MOD is
a national
organization
that strives to improve infants'
health by preventing birth defects,
premature birth, and infant mortality.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health: National
Hispanic Prenatal Helpline.
Call for a referral to local prenatal
care services that provide care
in English and Spanish or for culturally
appropriate prenatal care information
in English and Spanish. Telephone:
(800) 504-7081 (English or Spanish).
- Planned
Parenthood Federation of America
(PPFA) En Español.
Gives information in English and Spanish
about sexual and reproductive health.
Topics include sexuality education,
sexually transmitted diseases,
contraception,
and
pregnancy. PPFA and
its health center affiliates provide
reproductive health services and
sexual health information to millions
of women, men, and adolescents
in the United States annually.
For an online
directory of PPFA health
center affiliates
in each state, search by
state and zip code from the website home page. Telephone:
(800) 230-7526.
- Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
2011. About
postpartum depression, rev. ed./Acerca
de la depresion postparto.
Baltimore, MD: Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
[Brochure].
- Vexler EJ, Sullentrop
K. 2006. Bridging
two worlds: How teen pregnancy prevention
programs can better serve Latino youth/Un
puente entre dos mundos: Cómo
lograr que los programas para la
prevención del embarazo en la
adolescencia presten mejores servicios
a
los jóvenes latinos.
Washington, DC: National
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.
[Guide].
- Wisconsin
Association for Perinatal Care. 2008. Planning
for pregnancy: Women with depression,
rev. ed./Planificación
del embarazo: Mujeres con depresión.
Madison, WI: Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care.
[Fact sheet].
Special Needs
Sudden and Other Unexpected
Infant Death
Related MCH Library Resources
Spanish-Language Health Resources: Knowledge Path, 3rd ed.
(February 2009). (Updated: January 2013).
Author: Susan
Brune Lorenzo, M.L.S., MCH Library.
Reviewers: Lauren Agoratus, M.A., Family Voices and
Family-To-Family Health Information Resource Center
at the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network of N.J.; Isabella
Lorenzo-Hubert, M.Ed., National Center for Cultural
Competence; Olivia K. Pickett, M.A., M.L.S., MCH Library; Teresa Ramirez, Hemophilia Association of
San Diego County.
Editor: Ruth Barzel, M.A., MCH Library.
