General
Guides
- Cross
Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
- A not-for-profit agency whose
aim is to serve as a bridge between cultural practices and
health care institutions. They conduct grant funded research,
provide educational materials, and promote interpreter services.
- CulturedMed
- This site features bibliographies
on fifteen cultural groups - Afghanis, African, Arab, Asian,
Bantu, Bosnian, Ethiopian, Hispanic, Hmong, Muslim, Puerto
Rican, Russian, Somali, Sudanese, and Vietnamese. Refugee
and immigrant databases, resettlement agencies, and foreign
language health materials. Created and maintained by the
SUNY Institute of Technology library.
- DiversityRx
- A broad array of information
on how to meet the language and cultural needs of minorities,
immigrants, and refugees in relation to health care. Includes
laws, protocols and models.
- EthnoMed
- This guide, published by
the Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington,
contains information about the medical issues and cultural
beliefs of recent immigrants to Seattle, including Eritrean,
Cambodian, Vietnamese and Somali.
- Multicultural
Health Clearinghouse
- The McKinley Health Center
at the University of Illinois created this site to provide
health and wellness information for underrepresented populations.
- New
Jersey DHSS - Office of Minority and Multicultural Health
- "The Office of
Minority and Multicultural Health works to prevent disease
and to promote and protect the well-being of racial/ethnic
minorities at all stages of life."
- Office
of Minority Health
- The Office of
Minority Health Resource Center serves as a national research
and referral
service on minority health
issues. The
site has data and statistics, cultural competancy policies
and standards, and information on particular health topics.
- Transcultural
and Multicultural Health Links
- A thorough set of links that
includes health profiles, essays and surveys, bibliographies
for different ethnic and religious group. From New Mexico
State University Library.
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Cultures
and Ethnicities
- African
American Health Issues
- Health resources, links,
and information about specific diseases of concern. Provided
by the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
- American
Indian Health
- An information portal from
the National Library of Medicine. Areas of information include
background on tribes, health topics, traditional healing,
environmental health, publications, and healthcare access.
- Asian
American Health
- An information portal from
the National Library of Medicine. Areas of information include
health and diseases, mental health, complementary and alternative
medicine and health organizations. A section on populations
is broken down into Filipino, Chinese, Japanese, Korean,
Asian Indian/Pakistanis, and Southeast Asian.
- Crescent
Life
- This site gives a Muslim
perspective on health and wellness, psychology, family and
social issues.
- Cross
Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
- "Voices of Communities" profiles
for: Arab, Cambodian, Eritrean, Lao, Mien, Oromo, Samoan,
Somali, South Asian, and Ukrainian. Although these
PDF documents talk about Seattle based communities there
is much that can be used by providers outside Seattle.
- Healthcare
Providers Handbook on Muslim Patients
- A pdf handbook developed
by the Islamic Council of Queensland and distributed by the
Australian government this booklet is divided into three
sections; guidelines for health services; Islamic beliefs
affecting health care and background information about Islam.
- Islamic
Medicine
- A compilation of articles
from the Journal of the Islamic Medical Association. With
nineteen chapters in all, this book covers health guidelines
from the Quran, the Islamic code of medical professional
ethics, the medical aspects of fasting and the effects of
forbidden foods.
- Latino/Latina
Health Issues
- Health resources, links, and
information about specific diseases of concern. Provided
by the McKinley Health Center at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
- National
Alliance for Hispanic Health
- The NAHH is a network of
health and human service providers serving Hispanic populations
throughout the United States. Alliance initiative areas include
AIDS, cancer, tobacco control and youth and family policy.
- National
Center for American Indian and Alaskan Native Mental
Health Research
- This is the only center in
the country devoted to Native American and Alaskan mental
health issues.
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Translated
Health Materials
- AIDS
Information in Spanish - InfoSIDA
- From the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. This site provides information
on guidelines, drugs, vaccines, and clinical trials for AIDS.
- American
International Health Alliance - Multilingual Document
Library
- The American International
Health Alliance is a non-profit organization with an Eastern
European focus (primarily countries of the former Soviet
Union) which is reflected in their document library.
Documents may be searched by language, subject, and keyword.
Click on EurasiaHealth AIDS Knowledge Network to find the
databases and library.
- CancerNet
in Spanish
- A Spanish language version
of the National Cancer Institute's web site.
- Multicultural
Health Communication Service
- A service from New South
Wales, Australia which aims to provide high quality health
information to non-English speakers. All pamphlets are dated,
authored and have a summary in English. A wide variety of
languages.
- MedInfoRus
- This site, compiled by three
Russian-American medical librarians includes links to translated
patient material, e-books, a guide to using PubMed written
in Russian and a link to a Russian interface for Medline.
- MedlinePlus
in Spanish
- Comprehensive consumer health
database provided by the National Library of Medicine and
the National Institutes of Health. Includes health topics,
drug information, a medical encyclopedia, tutorials, news,
and surgical videos.
- Patient
Education Resources for Clinicians
- Links to resources for translated
health materials from the Oregon Health Sciences University,
primarily Spanish and low literacy.
- Spiral:
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
- This site offers health information
in Chinese, Cambodian, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.
A variety of health topics are covered. Site is from Tufts
University and the South Cove Community Health Center.
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