1. 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, 2010 Baltimore, Maryland John C. Scott RHIN/Center for Public Service Communications

2. 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

3. 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

9. 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

12. 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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18. Contact RHIN John C. Scott Executive Director, RHIN President Center for Public Service Communications jcscott@cpsc.com 703-536-5642