Translated Resources (by topic)

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

• Download in various languages
• Burmese

English and Arabic

Calling an Ambulance videos in multiple languages (flat or virtual reality goggles)

Easy English Fact sheet Calling an ambulance

Translated Appointment Reminder Tool – NSW Refugee Health Service

• 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

• Video Stories of autism in Arabic, Vietnamese and Nepali – Ialk Studios
• Positive Partnerships (Arabic, Burmese, Dari, Farsi, Hazaragi, Hindi,  Nepali, Panjabi, Somali, Tamil, Urdu)

BSQ and Metro North HHS – ‘Your Guide to Breast Health – English and translated short versions:

• • Arabic
  • Burmese 
  • Dari
  • English
  • Farsi
  • Swahili
  • Somali
  • Vietnamese
• Breast Health 5 – English and translated resopurce in Kinyarwanda, Swahili

Global Health Media – Many videos in many languages

Cancer Screening

• Arabic video

Bowel Screening

Translated brochures and videos

Translated pictorial fact sheets about How to take a stool sample (‘Collecting poop with pics‘)

• English 
• Arabic – Sudan
• French
• Kinyarwanda
• Swahili
• Somali

Breast Screening

BSQ and Metro North HHS – ‘Your Guide to Breast Health – English and translated short versions:

• Arabic
• Burmese 
• Dari
• English
• Farsi
• Swahili
• Somali
• Vietnamese

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.

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

Metro South Health – videos in multiple languages – View the videos

• Queensland Health –  Translated resources about COVID-19 

Communication Tool (print your own) –  Eastern Health Language Services

• 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

• NDIS Fact sheets – 33 languages – Amparo Advocacy
• Disability Services Glossary in Arabic and Vietnamese – CEH 
• Participant booklet 1 – Applying for the NDIS
• Participant booklet 2 – Creating your NDIS plan
• Participant booklet 3 – Using your NDIS plan 

Videos

• Arabic – What is the NDIS? (video) – Deakin University Disability and Inclusion

• Queensland Government – Domestic and Family Violence translated resources
• Immigrant Women’s Support Service (IWSS) What is domestic violence?  and What is sexual violence?
• Family Safety Pack (DSS)
• UNSW Sydney – Human Rights Training Package – Multilingual videos
• ‘Your Body, Your Choice’ – TRUE
• Recognising the signs of family violence videos in sixteen languages

Family Safety Pack is a resource for all people coming to Australia and is available in 46 languages. Developed by the Australian Government,  includes information about:

• domestic and family violence
• sexual assault
• forced and early marriage
• family violence and partner visas
• dowry abuse
• female genital mutilation/cutting
• LGBTQIA+ relationships
• trafficking and slavery

Access the Pack here.

Arabic (PDF file)
Assyrian (PDF file)
Dari (PDF file)
Farsi (Persian) (PDF file)
Karen (PDF file)
Khmer (Cambodian) (PDF file)
Vietnamese (PDF file)

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

• Refugee Health Assessment Information (2022)
  • Arabic
  • Burmese
  • Congolese Swahili
  • Dari
  • English
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Persian
  • Somali
  • Tibetan 
  • Tigrinya
• Refugee Health Assessment Videos
  • English Video
  • Arabic Video (for Iraqi and Syrian arrivals)

Access to Heath services in Australia – videos in various languages from NSW

National Heart Foundation – information about Warning signs , Healthy heart habits, Heart healthy tips – English and Arabic

Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease

Translated resources and videos about hepatitis testing, healthy eating and living with Hepatitis available HERE.

ECCQ – Hepatitis, HIV and Sexual Health

Hepatitis Australia – English and other languages here.

• Immunisation (bilingual version) – Centrelink
• Pre-immunisation checklist
• Staying Safe – COVID and Flu Vaccine videos – English and Other languages

Continence Foundation of Australia

• Mental Health Support Brochure – Arabic, Burmese, Dari, English, Farsi, French, Kinyarwanda, Somali, Swahili
• 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

How to use medicines correctly

Easidose – A prescribing aid addressing language and literacy barriers using colour coding for medications, and picture based instructions

Multicultural Nutrition Resources – Metro South Health

Healthy Lunchbox Information Session for Families

• Calcium
• Iron
• Vitamin D

Videos

• Healthy Eating in Australia: Multilingual videos for newly arrived refugees and migrants – NSW
• Global Health Media 
• Keeping food safe

Metro South Health – translated pictorial information

Queensland Health – Translated brochure ‘How to keep your teeth healthy’

Evaluation Summary – Palliative Care Workshop – Metro South 2022

Faith perspectives on palliative care – videos

A suite of approved stillbirth prevention resources for use in the implementation and promotion of the Safer Baby Bundle collaboratively designed for healthcare professionals working with pregnant women. See them here.

Raising Children – Translated videos and picture guides 

FPV and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health have translated resources here. 

• 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

Signs of stroke & What is stroke – information in other languages by Stroke Foundation Australia

Animation about How to use Telehealth in English produced by Brisbane South PHN and audio files in some languages available here.

Medical Terminations (MTOP) and Surgical Terminations (STOP)

Qld Health – translated information into multiple languages.

Fact Sheets – Qld Health

• Health risks of vaping 
• What you should know about vaping 
• Translated fact sheets

NSW –  Information on who is at risk, how a vitamin D deficiency is diagnosed and treated. Multiple languages 

Reproductive and Sexual Health – Multilingual resources – Family Planning Victoria

Multilingual information on endometriosis, menopause, ‘Be healthier’ and Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Available from Jean Hailes for Women’s Health 

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 – various language

Cervical Screening Test – how to collect your own sample (pictorial pdf) – English, Arabic

Women’s & Newborn Health – Multicultural & Multilingual Information (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)