Plain Language and Health Literacy Blog
Cultural awareness in healthcare
Cultural awareness in healthcare is the ability to perceive our own cultural beliefs, values, and customs, and to understand how they shape our decisions and behavior. All cultures have developed systems of beliefs to explain the cause of illness, how illness can be...
Use of the term Latinx in healthcare marketing: considerations to make
If you type “use of the term Latinx in healthcare marketing” into Google, the first non-sponsored result is tellingly entitled “Latinx – to use or not to use?” If you click on that title, you find a blog post from market intelligence agency Mintel. But if you’re...
Health Translations in different languages
For organizations seeking health translations in different languages, there are a variety of resources available which we will list below. These are general patient education handouts in different languages on a variety of subjects, videos and more. By providing...
Making PDFs WCAG compliant: Getting Started
Making PDFs WCAG compliant can feel daunting, and it certainly needs to be approached with thought and care. Once you are aware of the intent behind WCAG and how they function in a PDF, ensuring the accessibility of digital PDFs can become second nature. In our work...
Getting Certified Translation Services
If you’re looking for certified translation services, you may be surprised by what that actually entails. Some translators are certified by bodies such as the American Translators’ Association (ATA), but that doesn’t mean that every translation they produce is...
African language translation and Hep B
Hepatitis B is a silent epidemic in the West African community and using African language translation for education of the community in the U.S. can help with the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of eliminating viral hepatitis - hep B and C - as a major public...
What Are Telehealth Information Translations?
Translations and Interpreting as Part of Telehealth The importance of telehealth information translations may not be as obvious as the involvement of an interpreter for a telemedicine appointment, but this resource should not be overlooked. Of course including an...
Writing Clearly about COVID-19
Plain Language and COVID-19 Given the rate at which new discoveries are made about the novel coronavirus, writing clearly about COVID-19 is as important as ever. We've written before about providing translations of COVID-19 information, but here we’ll focus on another...
Top Tips on International Pharmaceutical Marketing Translation
Begin at the Beginning International pharmaceutical marketing translation will need to consider 3 main factors: Audience Laws and regulations Source content All 3 of these factors are closely intertwined. Audience matters for a few different reasons. In most countries...
Providing Translations of COVID-19 Information
Access to Information Providing translations of COVID-19 information is a significant step in ensuring that everyone knows how to protect themselves and their loved ones from contracting the novel coronavirus. It seems fair to say that every individual, organization...