General Resources
Glossary of Aged Care Terminology Containing around 1000 terms translated into 13 community languages, this Glossary of Aged Care Terminology has been developed to promote consistency of translations of aged care information.
Disabilityblog.info A disability news and resource directory
Queensland Health's Multicultural Health Resources
Links to Queensland Health's Multicultural and Language Services Policies, Cultural Diversity Package, Multilingual Factsheets and Links to Multicultural Health resources on the Internet
Queensland Health's Multicultural Health Links
Issues affecting health care, Dietary issues and guidelines, Islamic guides, Clinical issues, Policies, reports, standards, Interpreting and Translating, Education, Resources, Conferences, Research databases, Multicultural Health Conference, Health professionals, US and European government multicultural health initiatives, Resource pages for multicultural health material on the web, Resource pages for general immigration, ethnic and multicultural issues, Ethnic and multicultural organisations in Queensland.
Hmong-Australian Resource Page
Australia is now home for just over 1500 Hmong from Laos. They are one of the newest and smallest ethnic group of the 18 million Australians. This page contains historical and cultural profiles of the Hmong in Australia.
A Guide to Mental Health on the Internet in Australia
A comprehensive list of links to informative sites, community organisations, professional associations, institutes, universities, government legislation and departments and hospitals where Mental Health is a core topic.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (USA)
a grass roots, self-help, support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illness and their loved ones. 140,000 members.
The Minority Health Project at the University of North Carolina
Contains two searchable databases: 1. The Minority Health Research Catalog. - This database consists of an annotated bibliography (Medline searches) of studies relevant to the health of racial and ethnic populations. 2. The Minority Health Database Catalog. - This database contains information (Medline searches) about existing data sets that contain data on the health of racial and ethnic minorities.
SANE (was Schizophrenia Australia)
An independent national organisation committed to the welfare of Australians with a serious mental illness and their families by developing innovative programs and resources, campaigning for public acceptance and lobbying at a national level. For Australians, the most familiar of their campaigns is the national anti-stigma advertisements with Barry Humphries. Site provides information on the illness, treatments, and excerpts from their publications in community languages
Centre for Ethnic Health
The Centre for Ethnic Health (CEH) is a Victorian Government initiative established to
assist the health sector meet the needs of Australians of non-English speaking backgrounds.
The Centre undertakes activities which maximise the health outcomes and quality of life for
people from diverse backgrounds.
Ethnomed
Medically relevant information on recent immigrants and refugee groups to Seattle.
Covers Amharic, Cambodian, Eritrean, Oromo, Somali, Tigrinean and Vietnamese
cultures. The profile of each ethnic group covers community issues, monographs,
cultural topics, symptoms and diseases, along with further reading, links to other Web
sources, and patient education materials.
Oxford Refugees Studies
Publications, newsletters and conferences