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Women’s health service launches program to give multilingual health education access to migrants and refugees

During the first stages of the pandemic, people who died of COVID-19 and were born overseas had an age-standardised death rate that was 2.5 times higher than people who were born in Australia. What’s causing this disparity in Covid-19 deaths? New data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) reveals that for migrant and refugee communities, limited access to in-language and culturally tailored health information is a big contributor.
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What to expect if you experience harm during health care fact sheets in 26 languages

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has developed fact sheets about Open disclosure-What to expect if you experience harm during health care in Simplified English, Arabic, Croatian, Dari, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,…
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How to perform a rapid antigen test for parents and caregivers video in Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek and Italian

Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has developed videos for parents and caregivers about how to perform a rapid antigen test in Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek and Italian. You can watch these videos by using the links below: How to perform a…
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How to perform a rapid antigen test video in Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek and Italian

Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has developed video’s about how to perform a rapid antigen test in Cantonese, Mandarin, Greek and Italian. You can watch the videos by using the links below: How to perform a rapid antigen test (English)…
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Fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose fact sheets in English, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Karen, Khmer, Kirundi, Korean, Kurdish, Laotian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Maltese, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Rohingya, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese

Australian Government has developed fact sheets about the fourth COVID 19 vaccine dose in English, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese Simplified, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hmong, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Karen,…
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