WRHA Virtual Library: Patient Education Toolkit

• WRHA Patient & Public Resources
• Manitoba 211
• Winnipeg Public Library Health Information Guide (as well as the consumer health books in the library's catalogue)
• MedlinePlus
• It's Your Health (Government of Canada)
• Get The Research
• It's Safe to Ask (Manitoba Institute for Patient Safety)
• ClinicalKey Patient Handouts (requires login)
• UpToDate Patient Education (requires login)

• Patient Health Apps
• Decision Box
• Mayo Clinic Shared Decision Making
• Health Information Literacy
  • The Health Literacy Tool Shed offers different measures of health literacy
• Health Communication
• Inventory of Shared Decision Making Programs for Healthcare Professionals

These websites provide reliable health information in languages other than English.

• MedlinePlus covers health topics in over 40 languages.
• Health Canada has many resources in French as well as select items (such as the Food Guide) in other languages
• AboutKidsHealth focuses on children’s health in French, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, and Urdu.
• HealthLinkBC has dozens of educational sources in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Korean, Punjabi, Spanish, and Vietnamese—click “Other languages” at the top.
• Multicultural Health Communication has various topics in 60+ languages
• EthnoMed has materials in 10 languages as well as audio resources
• Health Information Translations has simple handouts in 20 languages
• NNLM has a list of links to more multilingual resources
• Health Navigator NZ links to materials in 17 languages of Asia and the South Pacific, as well as Somali
• World Health Organization has resources in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish
• Kids New to Canada has information for immigrant parents in multiple languages
• Multicultural Mental Health offers mental health-related resources in 24 languages.
• Immunization Action Coalition covers 10 languages.

Use the dropdowns below to filter resources by topic and language.