About Us

Sounds Healthy provides health information in audio and text formats in several languages.

Sounds Healthy is the result of a Health Action Zone Pilot Project in Sheffield Leicester and Nottingham. The project aimed to make health information more accessible for people from black and minority ethnic communities.
The content of this site was originally created for touch-screen computers with an interface designed to enable users to access audio information synchronised with the written text.

The content has now been re-designed for the web to share the information more widely. It is also available on CD ROM. As Sounds Healthy was a pilot project the information does not attempt to be comprehensive, but covers the preventive aspects of Heart Disease, Diabetes, Cervical Screening and TB. These topics were chosen after discussions with representatives from the local community and by looking at local epidemiological demographic information, morbidity incidence and prevalence data for the population groups in each city.

Links are made from Sounds Healthy to other useful websites which include information in multiple languages.

Where did the information come from?

Health Promotion England, and Diabetes UK provided information on Heart Disease prevention and Diabetes. The College of Health wrote and translated the information on TB. The information on cervical screening was generated by a focus group of Urdu speaking women in Nottingham.

The information was translated by local people who were asked to put the health information into their own language using their own words. This was
Then proof read and checked for gaps and clinical accuracy.

Acknowledgements

The 3 cities Sounds Healthy project wishes to acknowledge the contributions made by the many organisations, local communities and individuals without whom this material could not have been produced, including the College of Health, Diabetes UK, The British Nutrition Foundation and the National Dairy Council.

The copyright for Health Promotion England information has now passed to the Crown. Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.