Information Resources for Community Health Workers: Information on Various Diseases & Conditions

MedlinePlus in English (National Library of Medicine)

• Videos & Cool Tools
• Includes things like daily food plans for moms, BMI calculators, and immunization schedules. There are also some pretty nifty games to play including the Immune System game!
• Health Topics in English

 Temas de salud (National Library of Medicine)

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

• A-Z Index of Diseases & Conditions
• Healthy Living

Healthfinder.gov (U.S. Department of of Health & Human Services)

• Health A to Z
• Personal Health Tools
• National Health Observances
• September is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month!
• en Español

MedlinePlus in English (National Library of Medicine)

• Health Topics in Multiple Languages
• MedlinePlus in Spanish (National Library of Medicine)

Consumer Health Information in Many Languages (National Network of Libraries of Medicine/National Library of Medicine)
This site points to sites that provide health information for the lay person in languages beside English and Spanish. Topics include:

• Resources with Items in Multiple Languages; Sites of note include:
• EthnoMed: Culturally Competent Resources & Patient Education Materials and links to other Web sites that provide health information for a wide variety of cultures
• Patient Education
• Cross-Cultural Health
• Healthy Roads Media: Health information in a 22 languages in print and as short videos
• Resources for Specific Languages
• American Sign Language
• Arabic
• Cambodian/Khmer
• Chinese
• French
• German
• Hmong
• Korean
• Laotian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Thai
• Vietnamese

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (English links above)

• Índice A-Z de enfermedades y afecciones
• Vida saludable
• Resources in other languages
• The CDC provides documents in other languages on their English language pages.  For example:
• HPV in multiple languages

Healthfinder.gov (U.S. Department of of Health & Human Services)

• en Español