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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Coming Soon
• My RHIN
• Face book
• Twitter Feeds
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Contact RHIN
John C. Scott
Executive Director, RHIN
President
Center for Public Service Communications
703-536-5642