Search tips

Search tips

This Directory provides links to multilingual health information hosted by third party sites.

Users of the Directory are able to search quickly on a variety of health topics available in 59 languages.

You can search by key word or select a language or both. Your search results will include:

ArrowWeblinks to a full text English language resource
ArrowShort English language summary
ArrowWeblinks to languages other than English

The Directory links to Victorian and other Australian websites. Your search results will be divided into VICTORIAN, NATIONAL & OTHER STATES & TERRITORIES.

If you are using more than one keyword in your search you may want to separate the WORDS you have chosen.

When you use AND, the search engine will look for all documents containing all of WORDS you have chosen.

When you use OR, the resulting list will include documents with either of the WORDS.

If you are not sure about the correct spelling of a term, try typing the first few letters followed by *.

For example, a search for mening* will produce a list of links about meningoccal disease.