Translated Paediatric Diabetes Resources
What is type 1 diabetes?
What is Hypoglycaemia?
Blood Glucose Monitoring
Insulin & Type 1 Diabetes
Physical Activity & Type 1 Diabetes
Healthy Eating & Type1 Diabetes
* ENG – English version of fact sheet
ADDITIONAL MULTI-CULTURAL RESOURCES
Further Educational resources can be found on the Life For A Child Website.
The International Diabetes Federation “Life for a Child” Programme was established in 2000 with support from Diabetes NSW (formerly Australian Diabetes Council) and HOPE worldwide.
It is an innovative and sustainable support programme in which individuals, families and organisations contribute monetary or in-kind donations to help children with diabetes in developing countries.
The formula is simple: contributions from donors go to established diabetes centres enabling them to provide the ongoing clinical care and diabetes education children need to stay alive.
The centres provide comprehensive clinical and financial feedback to the Programme management team in Sydney, Australia: www.idf.org/lifeforachild/the-programme
Community Sharps Disposal Brochures
Your community sharps disposal brochures are available in different languages. Visit the Diabetes NSW page to download the documents.
Telephone Interpreter Service
A FREE telephone interpreter service is available for people who may have difficulty speaking English, to communicate with staff at Diabetes NSW. This service is available through the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
TIS have access to professional interpreters in almost 2000 languages and dialects and can respond immediately to most requests.
How to access an interpreter:
- Dial 131 450 for the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS).
- Explain the purpose for the call e.g. you are wanting to talk to an: educator, dietitian or to someone about exercise at Diabetes NSW.
- The operator will connect you to an interpreter in the required language and to a Diabetes NSW health professional for a three-way conversation.
Multicultural Health Communications Service
The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural Communication) provides information for consumers and information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with non English speaking communities throughout New South Wales. The NSW Department of Health funds the service, and endorses the multilingual health information published on the website. There are over 400 publications on health in a wide range of languages and a new publication is produced each month. Some multilingual resources produced by other services are also listed on this website and there are links to related websites.
The Service also produces resources and translation guidelines, and acts as a central point of referral to other agencies and workers undertaking research with ethnic communities.
Useful Links
www.diabetesaustralia.com.au – Diabetes Australia National site.
Resources for Health Professionals are available under the following headings: What is diabetes?, Diabetes and your body, Insulin and tablets, Food and nutrition, Diabetes and exercise. The information is currently available in the following languages: Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Italian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.