Translated Resources (by topic)
- Queensland Health – Healthcare in Queensland Guides
- Network YouTube channel – Playlists in different languages
- Health Translations Victoria
- Multicultural Health NSW
- Healthify New Zealand
Ageing
Speak my Language – translated resources and carer’s guides to help client’s understand the Aged Care system.
Dementia
- Moving Pictures – Dementia Awareness for CALD communities – short animated film that translates simple messages on how to reduce dementia risk at any age. Available in Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese, Greek, Tamil, Arabic and English.
- Dementia Australia – Information in other languages
Alcohol and Drug
Keeping yourself and your community safe while driving – information about alcohol and other drugs – Qld Network of Alcohol and other drugs (QNADA) – Download translated fact sheets here.
Understanding Alcohol
Allergy and Anaphylaxis
Ambulance
How to call an ambulance in:
Easy English Fact sheet Calling an ambulance
Appointments
Translated Appointment Reminder Tool – NSW Refugee Health Service
Asthma
- Asthma Australia has – 10 things to live well with asthma – Dari Nepali
- Asthma: What your doctor needs to know. (Arabic, Burmese, Dinka, Dari and Nepali)
- National Asthma Council Australia – translated resources
Autism
- Video Stories of autism in Arabic, Vietnamese and Nepali – Ialk Studios
- Positive Partnerships (Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Farsi, Hazaragi, Hindi, Nepali, Panjabi, Somali, Tamil, Urdu)
Betel Nut
Breast Screening
Breast Screen Queensland (BSQ) – videos in other languages
BSQ and Metro North HHS – ‘Your Guide to Breast Health – English and translated short versions:
Breastfeeding and children’s nutrition
Global Health Media – Many videos in many languages
Cancer Screening
- Cancer prevention and screening information, and resources for people with cancer 46 languages – NSW Health
- Translated cancer awareness videos – Settlement Council of Australia
- Australian Refugee – Arabic video
Bladder Cancer
Resources | Bladder Cancer Support Groups | BEAT Bladder Cancer
Bowel Screening
Translated brochures and videos
Translated pictorial fact sheets about How to take a stool sample (‘Collecting poop with pics‘)
Breast Screening
BSQ and Metro North HHS – ‘Your Guide to Breast Health – English and translated short versions:
Cervical Screening
- Translated resources and some videos – TRUE Your Health, Your Future: Get a Cervical Screening Test (true.org.au)
- Easy read pictorial and some languages – National Cervical Screening Program – How to collect your own sample | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Cervical self collection videos translated National Cervical Screening Program – Cervical screening explained (other languages) | Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
- Video about self collection in English for CALD communities – National Cervical Screening Program – How to take your own Cervical Screening Test sample – YouTube
- Easy Read – information about Self collection for cervical screening (English and other languages)
Simplified resource on 3 cancer screening programs for CALD community members (15 languages) from Cancer Institute NSW. See them here.
Child Health
Natural disasters
Children’s story books, ‘Birdie’s Tree’ helps babies and young children cope with the preparedness, response and recovery phases of natural disasters.
Paediatric Sepsis
Translated fact sheets and videos from Children’s Health Qld
Benefits of being bilingual
Speak to your child in the language you know best – English posters and translated information
Diabetes
- Diabetes NSW & ACT – A series of books – 20 languages
- Ethno Med – Pictorial presentations with bilingual voice overs:
- How Foods Affect Blood Sugar (Ethiopian and Eritrean Patients)
- How Foods Affect Blood Sugar (Iraqi and Syrian Patients)
- How Foods Affect Blood Sugar (For Somali Patients)
Download them all here
Consent
Metro South Health – videos in multiple languages – View the videos
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Queensland Health – Translated resources about COVID-19
Disability
- NDIS Fact sheets and videos – 33 languages – Amparo Advocacy
- Disability Services Glossary in Arabic and Vietnamese – CEH
Videos
- Arabic – What is the NDIS? (video) – Deakin University Disability and Inclusion
Domestic and Family Violence
- Queensland Government – Everyone has the right to feel safe at home
- Immigrant Women’s Support Service (IWSS) What is domestic violence? and What is sexual violence?
- ‘Your Body, Your Choice’ – TRUE – English, Arabic
- Recognising the signs of family violence videos in sixteen languages
Family Safety Pack – Information on family, domestic and sexual violence is now available in 20 community languages through the MyAus App. – Access the MyAus App website
Domestic and Family Violence in Pregnancy – videos (Mater)
Health – Doctor and Specialists definitions
Healthcare complaints
Healthcare complaints – Where to start – watch video
Tips for making a healthcare complaint – watch video
Take your complaint to a different organisation – watch video
Contact details for healthcare complaints organisations
Web: www.oho.qld.gov.au
Phone: 133 646
Queensland Human Rights Commission
Web: www.qhrc.qld.gov.au
Tel: 1300 130 670
If your concern is about unsafe care or behaviour by an individual healthcare worker, you can contact the health regulator, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra), to discuss your concerns:
Web: www.ahpra.gov.au
Phone: 1300 419 495
You can make complaints about aged care services to the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission.
Web: www.agedcarequality.gov.au
Phone: 1800 951 822
Health Assessments
Healthcare System
Healthcare in Queensland Guides
Access to Heath services in Australia – videos in various languages from NSW
Heart
National Heart Foundation – information about Warning signs , Healthy heart habits, Heart healthy tips
Immunisation
- About immunisation – fact sheets and videos – Qld Government
- Pre-immunisation checklist
- Staying Safe – COVID and Flu Vaccine videos – English and Other languages
Hepatitis
Incontinence
Mental Health
- Mental Health Support Brochure – Arabic, Burmese, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Kinyarwanda, Somali, Swahili
- Headspace – Flyers in 21 languages
- EMBRACE – Translated fact sheets on common mental health concerns
- Mental Health videos in Dari, Arabic and Karen – Italk Studios
- Queensland Health – Mental Health Act.
- Transcultural Mental Health Centre (NSW) – Translated Consumer Medication Brochures
- QPASTT – Information for Community Leaders about Mental Health – Tigrinya, Kirundi, Somali, English
Medicine
Men's Health
Videos about Men’s Health
- Kinyarwanda: Men’s Health and Health Message
- Somali Men’s Health
- Swahili (Kenya) Men’s Health
- Swahili (Congo) Seeing a Doctor
- Frenach – Men’s Health
- Dinka: Men’s Health and Men’s Health
Download the English script – Men’s Health videos.
This Project was developed by the former West Moreton-Oxley Medicare Local and the Media Department at University of Southern Queensland, Springfield Campus in partnership with Mater UQ Centre for Primary Health Care Innovation with the support of a great number of service providers and community members in 2017. These videos in languages provide information about the health system and have been uploaded to the Refugee Health Network Queensland website. Information has been checked for currency (2024). More information: info@refugeehealthnetworkqld.org.au
Nutrition & Hygiene
Multicultural Nutrition Resources – Metro South Health
Healthy Lunchbox Information Session for Families
Coeliac – Healthy eating
- Coeliac – for Somali community (English)
- Coeliac – for the Somali community (Somali)
- Coeliac – for Afghan community (English)
- Coeliac for Afghan community (Dari)
- Amharic (አማርኛ) – Coeliac for Amharic speaking
Videos
Oral Health
Queensland Health – Translated brochure ‘How to keep your teeth healthy’
Oral health services – access for Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Palliative Care
Evaluation Summary – Palliative Care Workshop – Metro South 2022
Faith perspectives on palliative care – videos
Pregnancy & Parenting
- Safer Baby Bundle – stillbirth prevention resources
- Healthy Horizons
- Raising Children – Translated videos and picture guides
Domestic and Family Violence in Pregnancy
Reproductive and Sexual Health Resources
FPV and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health have translated resources here.
Rights and responsibilities
- Information on human rights and discrimination law in Queensland is available in ten community languages here
- Fact sheet about Human rights for people in Australia
Sexual Violence
- We are Survivors
- Family Safety Pack – information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage, and a woman’s right to be safe.
Stroke
Signs of stroke & What is stroke – information in other languages by Stroke Foundation Australia
Telehealth
Animation about How to use Telehealth in English produced by Brisbane South PHN and audio files in some languages available here.
Tuberculosis
Qld Health – translated information into multiple languages.
Vaping
Vaping co-designed translated resource packs (posters and videos):
Fact Sheets – Qld Health
Vitamin D deficiency
NSW – Information on who is at risk, how a vitamin D deficiency is diagnosed and treated. Multiple languages
Women’s Health
- Reproductive and Sexual Health – FPV
- Endometriosis, menopause, ‘Be healthier’ and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) Jean Hailes for Women’s Health and Easy Read fact sheets
- Family Safety Pack – information on Australia’s laws regarding domestic and family violence, sexual assault and forced marriage, and a woman’s right to be safe.
- Female Circumcision booklet for communities
- NEFTA
- Cervical Screening Test – how to collect your own sample – English, Arabic
- Women’s & Newborn Health – Pregnancy, giving birth, breasfeeding, parenting, vaccination – Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Farsi, Somali, Tamil
- Reducing stillbirth for migrant and refugee women – Resources for Arabic, Dari, Dinka and Karen speaking communities (with English translations so healthcare professionals know what they are sharing)
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