Use these links to jump directly to your language of interest or the Usage Notes:
Usage Notes
Sources: The primary source of General Health Information in Spanish is MedlinePlus, which draws from the National Institutes of Health and many other sources. There is a variety of sources for the information in all the other languages.
Collections: Many of the links in this section are to Collections of General Health Information on a variety of topics. Those collections are either:
- An entire website
- Or a collection of fact sheets, brochures, pamphlets, etc.
[# articles] shows the number of articles in the collection for a given language.
English: There is a link to the English version of each foreign language collection or article, except where so noted:
- [no English] – There is no English version of this information.
- [bilingual article] – The article contains both English and foreign text.
- [bilingual website] – The link is to the English website. It has links to the foreign website.
- [links to foreign & English articles] – The link is to a page that has links to both the English and foreign versions of the articles in the collection.
- Other exceptions are noted with various links.
Tutorial: There is an online Tutorial that explains how to find information in the Multilingual Section. Links to collections or websites that are somewhat difficult to navigate are accompanied by a link to the corresponding section in the Tutorial.
Translation: There is a link to an online translator or bilingual dictionary for about half the languages.
Article Formats: Most of the information in this section is PDF format; some articles take a long time to load.
Fonts: Some of the non-PDF information does not display correctly unless special fonts are installed.
