welcome to the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
Making health communication easier
The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural Communication) is funded by the NSW Department of Health to provide information and services to help health professionals communicate with non English speaking communities throughout NSW.
What we do:
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Provide advice to NSW Health staff and other agencies and workers undertaking research with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD)communities.
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Provide strategic advice to NSW Health, and handle enquiries from health staff about all aspects of multicultural communication.
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Manage a multilingual website with more than 450 publications on health in a wide range of languages. New publications are added regularly. All multilingual resources are endorsed by NSW Health, and there are links to other sites which have multilingual health information.
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Produce multilingual health resources, as well as Guidelines, Protocols and Policies for staff working with multilingual information,
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Undertake research, communication and social marketing campaigns targeting people from cultural and linguistic diverse backgrounds Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD).
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Produce Polyglot, a quarterly newsletter for staff working in the area of multicultural health
Adobe Acrobat
All resources posted on this site are in pdf format. They can be viewed and printed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. To download this software please click here. The online publications listed on this site can be downloaded free (using Adobe Acrobat).
This web page is managed and authorised by NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service. Last updated: 6 October, 2009
