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Resources
for the Delivery of Culturally Competent Care
Institute of Medicine Report: Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Resource Bibliography in Cross Cultural Nursing
In order to serve the needs of recent immigrants (i.e. refugees) to the United States (mainly the Seattle area), this website contains information relating to the health care beliefs and practices of these incoming groups of people.
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program
This website provides information on an organization that serves as a link between health care facilities and underprivileged communities around the world to ensure optimum health care.
Indiana Northwest University Transcultural and Multicultural Health Care Links
This website contains information on the healthcare and lifestyles of individuals from diverse national and cultural backgrounds, with an extreme focus on their medical practices and battles with contemporary health risks
Multicultural Awareness: University of Michigan Health Services
Dept. of Family Medicine
Online resource of cultural information necessary to provide quality
health care to patients of all cultures. Site also provides a listing
of links to other sources of information on cultural competent health
care.
EthnoMed - Ethnic Medicine Guide
Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and
other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants.
DiversityRx
Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality
of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
The Center for Cross-Cultural Health
Organization which seeks to integrate the role of culture in improving
health.
Hispanic Health Beliefs and Practices: Mexican and Mexican Americans
Site designed to help health care professionals and students to
better understand Hispanic patients, families, and communities.
Multicultural Health, University of Michigan Health System
Offers a composite listing of afflictions, diseases and addictions
sorted by ethnic background
Clinical Cultural Competence
Webpage designed for health care providers, educators, nursing students,
medical students, and anyone else committed to improve cultural
competence in health care.
Program for Multicultural Health, Cultural Competency, University
of Michgan Health System
Site devoted to cultural competency, why it is important and how
to implement it into programs and services provided by the UMHS.
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