MedlinePlus en español (http://medlineplus.gov/espanol) launched in September 2002. MedlinePlus en español is a full-featured web site that contains a wealth of authoritative, reliable consumer-level health information in Spanish from the National Institutes of Health and national health organizations.
Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, then NIH’s director, stated at the time: “A primary part of NIH's mission is to translate medical advances into health information that the public can use. Making MedlinePlus information available in Spanish greatly expands NIH's ability to carry out its mission to communicate with the public.”
MedlinePlus en español includes innovative features in a Spanish-language health information web site:
Take a look at our evolution:
The site continues to expand and embrace new technologies. A mobile version, launched in 2010, provides reliable health information to mobile users. A Spanish Twitter account, @MedlinePlusEsp, provides MedlinePlus content to a social media audience, and a suite of special data files make MedlinePlus information available to other systems and Web sites.
MedlinePlus en español is frequently among the top 5 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E‑Government Satisfaction Index.
The site has come a long way since it started. As the U.S. Hispanic population has grown, so too has MedlinePlus en español.
2002 | Now | |
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U.S. Hispanic population | 37.4 million | 52 million |
Spanish health topic pages | 486 | 913 |
Visits to MedlinePlus en español pages | 7.9 million (FY03) | 94.4 million (FY11) |
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