Best practice guide to create multilingual health resources

How can you create a multilingual health resource with little planning to ensure your health message reaches your target communities with clarity, accuracy and effectiveness?

There are three stages in creating a health resource for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities:

Planning & budgeting

Budgeting realistically for time, costs and professional skills

Production

Creating quality resources for CALD communities

Resource maintenance

Ensuring resources remain accurate and relevant

Developing health resources for people from refugee backgrounds.

Position statement from NSW MHCS on use of machine translation (including Google translate) to communicate with CALD communities