Do you want to learn more on the subject of cultural diversity in healthcare?
You can explore the topic further by clicking on the Web sites listed below. They contain helpful information, as well as extensive bibliographies on the subject. If you know of any others I should add, please let me know. I'll be updating this section regularly.
Links are arranged according to topic. Scroll down to find the relevant topic. They include:
General sites
Diet
End-of-Life
Ethnic Groups
Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision
Geriatrics
Mental Health
Traditional Medicine
Bibliographic References
Links to Websites & Articles
Academic Organizatons
Resources for MDs and RNs
General
The
Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture
This comprehensive website is designed for clinicians to help them provide
culturally competent healthcare. It contains an interesting Quality
& Culture Quiz, as well as information on several ethnic groups, along
with links and other resources.
Program for Multicultural Health
University of Michigan Health System's comprehensive website contains
generalizations on 25 ethnic and religious groups, along with numerous
tools and resources for providing culturally competent care. NEW
EthnoMed
Home Page
Contains information
about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent
to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees
fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
Cultural
Competency in Medicine
A teaching module produced
by the American Medical Student Association, designed to help medical
students become culturally competent. Suggests activities, provides brief
case studies for individual or group learning experiences, definitions,
criteria for culturally competent care, questions for physicians and patients,
suggestions for using interpreters, and list of references.
Diversity Resources
Contains numerous documents related to diversity, including demographic
data on a variety of groups, tips for dealing with diversity, and detailed
guides to providing culturally sensitive health care to a variety of
ethnic groups, from Suzanne Salimbene's "What Language Does
Your Patient Hurt In?: A Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care."
Cultural Competence
Resources for Health Care Providers.
The US Department
of Health Resources and Services Administration site contains links
to websites and articles that can be used by health
care providers. It includes information on assessment tools, culture
and language specific groups, and specific diseases/conditions associated
with various ethnic groups, as well as information on training curricula. NEW
Transcultural
Nursing Basic Concepts & Case Studies
Contains
basic concepts, case studies, cultural competency, related links, and
an annotated bibliography.
Cultural
Diversity: Queensland Health
The Queensland (Australia) government's site contains general information
on cultural diversity, guidelines to practice, and checklists for cultural
assessment.
Culture Clues
Tip sheets for physicians on a variety of different ethnic groups
served by the University of Washington Medical Center. Includes separate
sheets on End-of-Life for Latinos, Russians, and Vietnamese. NEW
Cross
Cultural Health Care Program
Contains information
on cultural competency training, interpreter training, and research projects.
Ethnicity Online
A British website. Includes information on various ethnic groups, video
interviews with a physician, a Hindu patient, a health care worker,
and a medical student, as well as good practice guidelines and related
links.
Medical Anthropology
An online tutorial on how illness is traditionally perceived and cured
around the world. It was created and is maintained by Dr. Dennis
O'Neil, Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos,
California.
FamilyDoctor.org
Contains patient information and other materials in Spanish from
the American Academy of Family Physicians. Click Spanish/Espanol
for patient handouts on specific health problems.NEW
Cultural Competence
From Medical Economics, this website has links to several articles regarding
caring for patients from various ethnic groups, including Muslims,
Blacks, Refugees, Asians, and Latinos. NEW
Specific
Topics
Diet
Heart Healthy Recipes
Downloadable,heart-healthy cookbooks from the NIH on African American,
Latino, and American dishes. The Latino version is in both Spanish & English.
Food
and Nutrition Information Center: Food Guide Pyramids
Ethnic food guide pyramids from the United States Department of Agriculture.
Food
and Nutrition Information Center. Ethnic/Cultural Topic Page
Information on diet, health, and disease in a variety of ethnic groups.
End
of Life
Customs of Bereavement
AARP
website has information on African American, Asian & Pacific Islander, Hispanic,
Middle Eastern, and Native American mourning customs.
Cultural
Expressions of Grief over the Death of an Infant
From The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Women's
Health Care Physicians, the site reviews cultural traditions of Latino,
African American, North America tribal and Muslim families grieving the
loss of an infant and identifies simple strategies health care providers
can use to begin the process of providing culturally competent support
to them.
Cross Cultural Mourning Practices
This website is from the Hazard Response Technology (HaRT) Reference
Library, a Project funded by Department of Justice, Office of Domestic
Preparedness,
Bureau
of
Justice Assistance. The project is designed to train community responders
in terrorism awareness, incident response, and incident management,
which is reflected in their perspective on mourning practices. NEW
OneLegacy
Religious views on organ donation.
NEW
Ethnic
Groups
Amish
Fact sheet on working with the
Amish, put out by Ohio State University.
NEW
Chinese
Health Issues
This page of the Chinese American Medical Society web site has links to
several articles relevant to Chinese health, disease, and culture.
CHISPA:
Caring for Hispanic Patients Interactively
The website associated with this interactive e-Learning program has definitions,
resources, Spanish language links, and a discussion forum on cultural
issues surrounding Hispanic culture and health. A copy of the CD-ROM can
be requested from this site.
Mexican & Mexican-Americans: Health Beliefs & Practices
It covers a lot of areas relevant to health beliefs and practices, and
includes a useful chart on traditional herbal remedies.
Hispanics
The Arizona Hispanic Center of Excellence website. Contains resources
covering cultural competencies within health issues, trends, demographics,
study results, etc. NEW
Middle Easterners
If you scroll down the page from Middle Eastern Heritage Month,
you'll find useful information on Arab culture as it relates
to health care.
At the
bottom of the
page
there
is an annotated bibliography of general books in the area of
cultural diversity in health care.
Native Americans
This National Library of Medicine website contains links to articles
on many topics related to Native American health care, including traditional
healing.
NEW
Female
Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision
Female
Genital Mutilation Education & Networking Project
This extensive web
site includes articles, case studies, discussion lists, and networking
information
Geriatrics
Curriculum in Ethnogeriatrics
Designed as a teaching tool, this contains five modules on caring for
the elderly across cultures. There are also 11 ethnic-specific
modules, including African American, Hispanic/Latino, Chinese, Filipino,
and Pakistani.
Mental Health
Mental Health and Minorities
September 1997 report from the Office of MinorityHealth. It includes
several "articles" on the topic of culture and mental health.
Traditional Medicine
Folk
Medicine
Bibliography with direct links to articles on traditional medicine in a wide
variety of cultures, provided by the Open Directory Project.
Bibliographic References
CulturedMed
(SUNY Institute of Technology)
Extensive bibliography
on books and articles related to culture and medicine, by topic and by
ethnicity.
The
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
The Society's suggested resources for cultural competency from their Core
Curriculum Guidelines on Culturally Sensitive and Competent Health Care
National
Center for Cultural Healing: Bibliographic References
List of books and articles on cultural competence for healthcare professionals.
Links
to Articles and Websites
Office
of Minority Health: Think Cultural Health
Access to free Cultural Competency Continuing Education Programs for physicians
and nurses, as well as a web-based interactive tool to assist healthcare
organizations in planning, implementing, and evaluating language access
services. NEW
HealthWeb:
Minority Health
University
of Illinois at Chicago's Health Science's list of web resources on African
Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans,
as well as a list of general and educational web sources.
Cultural
Competence Resources
List of resources that provide
information about cultural competence. Included are organizations, general
information, training workshops and conferences, policy resources, and
implementation resources.
Cultural
Competence and Language Access Resources
Links to articles and resources from the Florida Association of Community
Health Centers.
Academic Organizations
Council
on Nursing and Anthropology
Society
for Medical Anthropology
For
RNs and MDs
Support
for Nurses
This site is designed to help
nurses learn to communicate assertively, set boundaries, manage conflicts,
solve problems and work effectively in a culturally diverse team environment.
They can access the tip-based
articles, informative interviews, case studies and a solution-oriented discussion
forum.
Doctors in Touch
Doctors in Touch is a single-source provider of the tools physicians
need to regain control of medicine – one patient relationship at
a time. It is founded by a physician to help other physicians get back
to patient-centered medicine. It includes practice improvement tools,
courses for CME credit, publications, and industry news.
