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 many cultural groups - Afghanis, African, Arab/Muslim, Asian, Bosnian, Burmese, Burundi, Cambodian, Ethiopian, Hispanic, Hmong, Iraqi, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Russian, Somali/Bantu, Sudanese, and Vietnamese. 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 or the U.S. including Eritrean, Cambodian, Hmong, Vietnamese and Somali. Provides patient education information in various languages.
- 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 U.S. 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 the 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, and Southeast Asian.
- Crescent Life
- This site gives a Muslim perspective on health and wellness, psychology, family and social issues.
- 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.
- 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.
- Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
- A comprehensive compilation of web links to consumer health information in a variety of languages. From the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
- Health Information in Multiple Languages - MedlinePlus
- From the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus. Following specific quality guidelines, this site provides information on certain topics in many languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- Non-English Guides to PubMed
- Instructions on using PubMed written in other languages from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Lanugages include French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
- 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, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese. A variety of health topics are covered. Site is from Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library.
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