Health Information Resources for Asian Americans

from the National Library of Medicine

Laura Bartlett, MLS Technical Information Specialist

Outreach and Special Populations Branch

About

• National collaborative partnership • database of quality multilingual, public

health resources • Features:

– Health education materials – Provider tools

Background • Needed resource • Molded by stakeholders • Prototyped • Continual improvements

RHIN in transition • Changed name to HealthReach to

represent it as a database for ALL users of multi-language materials

• Acquiring the majority of the Asian American Health Web portal – Language section – Cultural information section

• Future online training efforts

Asian languages in HealthReach • Burmese • Cambodian • Cantonese • Chin, • Chin, Hakha • Chinese • Chinese Simplified • Hmong • Ilokano • Indonesian (Malay) • Japanese • Karen

• Karen (S’ghaw) • Khmer • Korean • Lao • Laotian • Mandarian • Marshallese • Samoan • Tagalog • Thai • Tibetan (Bhotia) • Vietnamese

South Asian languages in HealthReach

• Bengali • Dzongkha (Bhutanese) • Gujarati • Hindi • Malayalam • Marathi • Nepali • Pashto • Punjabi • Tamil (Malabar) • Urdu • Uzbek

Searching HealthReach

Search example

Search example, Diabetes

Search example, Diabetes, cont.

Split screen option

Search example, Diabetes, cont.

Split screen option

Advanced search

Advanced search example

Materials “share” features

Other tools

• “About HealthReach” – Search “Help” – Submitting your information resources – Text, images, and descriptions to help you link

to HealthReach from your website • “Contact Us” link

http://asian americanhealth

.nlm.nih.gov

Asian American Health Web Portal, cont.

• http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov • Started in 2000s • Evaluation conducted with CSAAH in 2013

– Need for materials in Asian languages for patients

– Need for data and research access; de-aggregated info.

• Re-envision the portal for 2015

Training from NLM • Capacity building and skills acquisition in

using biomedical and health databases • National Training Center • Web-based and distance education • In-person training at professionals

meetings and conferences – Delivered by NLM staff or contractors – Delivered by partners

Questions ?

National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD 20894 1.888.Find.NLM (346.3656)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hinfo.html Thank you!

Laura Bartlett Technical Information Specialist

Outreach and Special Populations branch

National Library of Medicine

bartlettl@mail.nih.gov