Tuberculosis: Patient Education and Fact Sheets

Posted by STD Testing | Posted in STD | Posted on 20-02-2010

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Tuberculosis (TB) Handouts

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB disease most often affects the lungs, but can occur anywhere in the body. Educating patients and the general public about this disease can help prevent the spread of and rate of infection associated with this disease.

Here you will find Tuberculosis (TB) related patient education handouts and fact sheets that cover 7 tuberculosis topics in 15 different languages:

Albanian

Information on Tuberculosis (I)
Information on Tuberculosis (II)

Amharic

Do I Need a TB Skin Test?
Just the Facts About BCG and TB
Stop TB Infection Before It Makes You Sick
TB and HIV: A Dangerous Partnership
TB Disease: You Need Treatment to Make You Well
What is a TB Skin Test?
What You Should Know About Taking Tuberculosis Medicines

Arabic

Chinese (Traditional Script)

English

Do I Need a TB Skin Test?
Drug Resistant TB: Facts for Contacts
Information on Tuberculosis (I)
Information on Tuberculosis (II)
Just the Facts About BCG and TB
Stop TB Infection Before It Makes You Sick
TB and HIV: A Dangerous Partnership
TB Disease: You Need Treatment to Make You Well
What is a TB Skin Test?
What You Should Know About Taking Tuberculosis Medicines

Farsi

Hindi

Indonesian

Korean

Russian

Somali

Spanish

Tagalog

Tigrinya

Urdu

Vietnamese

Other Tuberculosis Educational Materials

American Lung Association of San Diego

http://www.lungsandiego.org/lung/adults_tuberculosis.asp
“After the Test” — English | Farsi

Australian Public Health Division, Government of Victoria, Australia

TB Materials available in Arabic, Cambodian, Chinese, Croatian, English, Filippino, Russian, Somali, and, Turkish
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/ideas/diseases/language.htm

British Lung Association

“Facts About Tuberculosis” – Hindi (English Translation)

California TB Controller’s Association

“TB Disease: Class 2″ — Farsi (English Translation)
“TB Disease: Class 3 and 5″ — Farsi (English Translation)

Canadian Lung Association

http://www.lung.ca/tb/notenglish/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

City of Manchester, New Hampshire

http://www.manchesternh.gov/CityGov/HLT/Community/TB.html

Ethnomed — This web site provides cultural information as well as educational materials

Brochures – http://www.ethnomed.org/ethnomed/patient_ed/index.html

Florida Department of Health

Click http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Disease_ctrl/tb/Educational-Materials/edmat.html to visit the patient education page for the materials order form; video and brochures are available

Massachusetts Department of Health

INH Fact Sheet — English | Arabic

Minnesota Department of Health

http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/tb/brochures.html

NIH National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
These materials have lots of pictures and might be useful with patients who learn better with visual cue

Tuberculosis: Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy: English| Spanish

New Mexico Refugee and Immigrant Health Program

TB Foreign Language Materials – http://www.healthlinknm.org/refugee/resources/foreign/tb.htm

Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library; University of Utah

http://library.med.utah.edu/24languages/
The following TB materials are available:
“Pills to Prevent TB” [pdf files] — Cambodian and English | Laotian and English
“TB: Get the Facts” [pdf files] — Korean (Download English from CDC web page)

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