expanding access to culturally diverse and language appropriate health information: the web-based...

Expanding Access to Culturally Diverse and Language Appropriate Health Information: The

Web-Based Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)™

Seventh National Conference on Quality Health Care for Culturally Diverse Populations

October 18-21, 2010Baltimore, Maryland

John C. ScottRHIN/Center for Public Service Communications

RHIN™ Objectives

• Identify and make accessible culturally and linguistically appropriate health and medical information

– In RHIN™ database – At trusted partner locations (National Library of

Medicine, EthnoMed and Healthy Roads Media)

• Enable and encourage a “culture of information sharing and communications” among health providers who specialize in refugee health

RHIN Website Features• Organized to provide ease of use

– FIND: Browse or search the RHIN database which contains multilingual health information as documents, videos and audio files

– SHARE: Assist and collaborate with others by sharing or recommending new resources

– LEARN: Find out more about refugees, asylees

Share Resources• RHIN cultivates collaboration and invites participation

in creating a valuable resource of refugee health information

• RHIN encourages users to submit documents, audio, video, or other files for possible use on RHIN

RHIN Database Development

• Metadata and “document properties”– Document Title– Abstract– Language(s) Available– Document Category– Document Producer/Author– Keywords– Development and Review Methodology – Copyright restrictions

Coming Soon

• My RHIN

• Face book

• Twitter Feeds

Contact RHIN

John C. Scott

Executive Director, RHIN

President

Center for Public Service Communications

jcscott@cpsc.com

703-536-5642