Cross
Cultural Health Care
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/4848.html
The American Medical Association offers a Cultural Competence
Compendium, a 460-page resource guide to help physicians and other health
professionals communicate with patients and provide individualized, respectful,
patient-centered care; selected sections of the book are available at
the web site.
http://www.crosshealth.com/
The Center for Cross-Cultural Health has produced materials
to guide areas in the country facing the challenge of providing culturally
competent care. Sample language policies, guidelines for working with
interpreters, instruments to help measure an organization’s cultural
competency, and lists of translated health education materials are available.
http://www.wwu.edu/~culture
The Center for Cross Cultural Research
Focus on teaching and contributions to curriculum, research and scholarship,
and publications in cross-cultural psychology.
http://www2.umdnj.edu/fmedweb/chfcd/
The Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity aims
to improve the delivery of culturally-responsive, family-centered health
care to diverse populations through technical assistance/consultation,
education and training, and research and evaluation. The center offers
customized cross-cultural training, as well as instruction in working
with interpreters.
http://www.omhrc.gov/clas/
The Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in
Health Care — CLAS Standards project makes recommendations for
national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services
(CLAS) in health care. Based on an analytical review of key laws, regulations,
contracts, and standards currently in use by federal and state agencies
and other national organizations, these standards were developed with
input from a national advisory committee of policymakers, health care
providers, and researchers. Each standard is accompanied by commentary
that addresses the proposed guideline's relationship to existing laws
and standards, and offers recommendations for implementation and oversight
to providers, policymakers, and advocates.
http://www.xculture.org/
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program, through a combination
of cultural competency trainings, interpreter trainings, research projects,
community coalition building, and other services, serves as a bridge between
communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality
health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
http://www.cms.gov/healthplans/quality/project03.asp
Commissioned by CMS, contractors from the Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality’s (AHRQ’s) Integrated Delivery System Research Network
have developed two Cultural Competence Guides for Managed Care Plans
to assist them in implementing cultural competence interventions: Providing
Oral Linguistic Services: A Guide for Managed Care Plans and Planning
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services: A Guide for Managed
Care Plans.
http://www.sunyit.edu/library/html/culturedmed/index.html
CulturedMed is a Web site promoting culturally-competent health
care for refugees and immigrants. The library also houses a research center
containing relevant print materials. The bibliographies and links found
on the web site contain items that discuss health beliefs or ethnographic
information about various ethnic groups.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13557858.html
Ethnicity and Health is a journal of original papers in the fields
of medicine, public health,epidemiology, statistics, population sciences,
social sciences, and other disciplines of interest to health professions.
Issues of culture, religion, lifestyle and racism as they relate to health,
and its anthropological and social aspects are included, as well as subjects
such as prevention, access to and equity in health care, and models of
appropriate and effective care.
http://ethnomed.org/
The EthnoMed Home Page at Harborview Medical Center, University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington. These files contain information about
cultural beliefs and medical issues pertinent to the health care of recent
immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts
of the world.
http://erc.msh.org/quality&culture
Management Sciences for Health: The Provider's Guide to Quality
and Culture web site is designed to assist health care organizations
throughout the US in providing high quality, culturally competent services
to multi-ethnic populations. The site features an interactive quiz that
helps users enhance their knowledge and skills. There is also a guide
with 11 modules on topics such as common health problems in selected minority,
ethnic and cultural groups, and understanding immigrant, refugee and minority
populations. Each module contains readings, mnemonics, exercises, references
and annotated links to other relevant Web resources
http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/
The National Center for Cultural Competence conducts an array
of activities to fulfill its mission of increasing the capacity of health
care and mental health programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally
and linguistically competent service delivery systems. These activities
include training, technical assistance, and consultation; networking,
linkages and information exchange; and knowledge and product development
and dissemination.
http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/
New York University School of Medicine Center for Immigrant
Health’s mission is to facilitate the delivery of linguistically,
culturally, and epidemiologically sensitive health care services to newcomer
populations. The Center strives for the elimination of ethnic and racial
disparities in health care through research, outreach and education, information
dissemination, and program and policy development.
http://www.iun.edu/~libemb/trannurs/trannurs.htm
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
Table of Contents includes: Health Profiles | Government Offices | Essays
and Surveys | Bibliographies | Related Links | Methods | Usenet | Amish|
Buddhist | Christian Science | Hindu | Islam | Jehovah Witness | Judaism|
Mormon | Quaker | African American | Alaskans, Native | Asian and Pacific
Islanders | Chinese | Cambodian | Hispanic | Hmong | Indian | Japanese
|Korean | Native American | Thai | Tibetan | Vietnamese | Women | Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual |
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