The California-Mexico Health Initiative in collaboration
with several partners has recently completed an "English-Spanish
Dictionary of Health
Related Terms." Terms are arranged by subjects including
the human
body, symptoms of illness, institutions and personnel, chronic
and
communicable diseases, nutrition and other subjects. Also included
are
culture-specific expressions, vocabulary used in Mexican traditional
medicine and folk terms utilized among migrants to describe illnesses
and symptoms. The dictionary is both English-Spanish and Spanish-English,
and a limited number will be distributed to Mexican consular
offices in the United States.
Click here to view the Adobe Acrobat version of the dictionary.
(728kb) 
With 224 different languages being spoken within California, the need for health care interpreters has risen sharply. Created by the California Healthcare Interpreters Association, this publication provides an overview on the complex role of health care interpreters, as well as provides protocols for the field.
Ethical Principles, Protocols, and Guidance on Roles & Intervention
The Cambridge Health Alliance released a study titled “Testing New Technologies in Medical Interpreting” focused on evaluating the effectiveness of the four major forms of remote interpreting: face-to-face, via speakerphone, through videoconferencing, and through remote simultaneous medical interpreting equipment. The study reports how the different modes of interpreting work in a clinical setting and what patients, providers and interpreters said about their comfort level in experiences with the four modes.
Testing New Technologies in Medical Interpreting*
- The Role of the Health Care Interpreter: An Evolving Dialogue*
- Guide to Initial Assessment of Interpreter Qualifications. May, 2001
 *
- The Terminology of Health Care Interpreting: A Glossary of
Terms.* October 2001
- List of Interpreter Associations
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* External link
For more information, call the National Program Office at (213) 743-1556
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