Multicultural and Multilingual Health Information
Contents
Black or African American Resources
African American Health
NetWellness, from University of Cincinnati, Case Western Reserve and Ohio State University
NAMI, African American Resources
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Colorado and Local resources
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Colorado Child Health Plan Plus
en español
Mental Health Association of Colorado
en español
Regional Business News
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Tribal Connections Four Corners Go Local
Search for Services by location in Four Corners area
Cultural Competencies & Health Disparities
AHRQ National Healthcare Disparities Report
[New for 2007]
AMA EPoCH
EPoCH - Educating Physicians on Controversies in Health
Cancer Health Disparities
National Cancer Institute
Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Assessment tools, culture/language, disease/conditions, special populations etc.
CulturedMed
Resource center of print materials promoting culturally-competent health care for refugees and immigrants from SUNYIT
DiversityRx
Essentials, models & practices, policy, legal issues and networking to improve the quality of health care for minorities, immigrants and ethnically diverse communitites.
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care
A tool for assessing important aspects of an individual's beliefs relating to health promotion and wellness, illness and disease prevention, and health maintenance and restoration.
[Online Book from STAT!Ref database]
Health Disparities Experienced by Black or African Americans
CDC & MMWR - Morbidity Mortality Weekly Report, Jan. 2005
Hospital, Language and Culture
Resource links from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Literature Review Bibliography
HRET Disparities Toolkit
Toolkit for collecting patient race, ethnicity, and language information
Implicit Association Test
Harvard's Project Implicit is designed to facilitate the research of implicit social cognition and foster examination of hidden biases
Intercultural Cancer Council
Promotes policies, programs, partnerships, & research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities & medically underserved.
Kaiser Family Foundation - Minority Health
Fact sheets, chart packs, reports, surveys & webcasts, to inform efforts to reduce disparities in health care access and quality.
Language Proficiency and Medical Spanish Programs
Boston University, International Health Program
Medical Spanish & Portugese Programs
Learn in Latin America or South America
Minority Health
Institutes of Medicine: Current projects, and events, including reports on racial and ethnic disparities in health care
Minority Women's Health
National Women's Health Information Center
Multicultural Palliative Care Guidelines
Palliative Care Council of South Australia Inc.
NAMI - Multicultural Support
National Alliance on Mental Illness. Resources in
Chinese,
Italian,
Portugese, Spanish
Chinese,
Italian,
Portugese, Spanish
National Center on Minority Health Disparities
U. S. National Institutes of Health
National Mental Health Information Center
Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Care Mental Health Services
NIDDK
Strategic Plan on Minority Health Disparities from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Office of Minority Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Oficina de salud de las Minorías
en espanol Actualidad, Temas de Salud, Conozca sus derechos, Acceso a los servicios de salud.
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Pocket Guide to Cultural Health Assessment
Designed to provide essential information to assess and care for the culturally diverse patient
[Online Book from Nursing Consult Database]
Providers Guide to Quality and Culture
Designed to assist health care organizations in providing high quality, culturally competent services
Race, Ethnicity, and Health Care: The Basics
Kaiser Family Foundation
Racial & Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Health Care: A Chartbook
From the Commonwealth Fund, March 2008
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TACCT
Tool For Assessing Cultural Competence Training
Think Cultural Health
Cultural Competency Continuing Education Programs for Nurses and Physicians
USA ~ Mexico Border Health
Assistance on Health Information and Funding Resources
Cultural Information
CIRRIE
CIRRIE - Center for Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange: Cultural Competence
CultureClues
Tip sheets for clinicians from the University of Washington Medical Center
Ethnomed
Created by the University of Washington, Ethnomed contains medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups.
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
Ethnic, Religious and other populations from New Mexico State University Library
Databases for Multicultural and Multilingual Information
CIRRIE
Database of International Rehabilitation Research. Over 26,500 citations of multilingual. international (outside of the U.S.) rehabilitation research published between 1990 and the present.
Fuente Academica
en español Full text EBSCO database of nearly 200 scholarly academic Latin America and Spanish language journals.
HONSelect
en español Search integrator for medical and health queries combining MESH Terms, scientific articles, healthcare news, websites and mutimedia. Search in: Español, Portugués, Français, Deutsch, and English.
LILACS
en español A triple language database with interfaces in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Lilacs references the scientific literature on health generated in the Latin American and Caribbean countries
MedicLatina
en español EBSCO full text database of Spanish Language, peer reviewed, medical research and investigative journals.
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National Center for Cultural Competencies Resource Database
Georgetown University
Nursing Consult
Patient handouts in Spanish
Virtual Health Library
en español Search other Health & Science bibliographic databases of Pan American and Carribean generated literature. Includes thematic databases such as ADOLEC: Adolescent Literature, BDENF: a nursing database, BBO: Brazilian Bibliography of Dentistry and LILACS. Also search MEDLINE in Spanish or Português.
Database Guides in Non-English Languages
Note: Special font and character sets may be needed in order to view information in non-English languages.
Aging Information in Spanish
Aids/HIV Spanish information resources
en español
Conversando con su medico
pdf guide to help older Hispanic patients communicate with their health care providers. Covers choosing a provider, preparing for an appointment, working with an interpreter, discussing sensitive health issues, and finding additional health information in Spanish
[PDF]
Convivendo con el Cáncer de Seno
en español Comprehensive and culturally relevant resource for Latinas with breast cancer
Cancer Information in Spanish
Cardiovascular
en español Links to heart and stroke information from the American Heart Association en Español
Información Ortopédica
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
en español
Women's Health Information in Spanish
Biblioteca de Salud Materno-Infantil
en español
Web site generales de la salud en español (General Health Websites in Spanish)
AHRQ: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
en español Calidad de la atención, condiciones de salud, de Prevención y Bienestar
Quality of care, Health conditions, Prevention & Wellness
Quality of care, Health conditions, Prevention & Wellness
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Familydoctor.org
en español Spanish patient education materials and brochures developed & reviewed by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Informacíon en Español.
Healthfinder en Español
en español Gateway to Spanish consumer health and human services information from government and non-profit sources
MedlinePlus en Español
en español
National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
en espanol
Health information featured on the website includes
publications on stroke, dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and autism, as
well as many other neurological disorders. (Trastornos neurológicos). From the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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Oficina de salud de las Minorías
en espanol Actualidad, Temas de Salud, Conozca sus derechos, Acceso a los servicios de salud.
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Salud.com
en español Extensive coverage of health/disease topics, medications and diagnostic procedures.
Health Websites in Other Languages
24 Languages Project
Consumer Health Brochures in Multiple Languages, from Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library
AACAP Facts for Families
Español, Malaysian, Polish, Icelandic American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. English, Español | Malaysian | Polish and Icelandic.
Cancer Index
Cancer resources in many languages
Consumer Health Materials in Multiple Languages
National Network of Libraries of Medicine
Life with Cancer
Managing symptoms and side effects. English plus 10 language translations
Multilingual Health Information
Stanford Health Library
Multilingual Multimedia Consumer Health Information
Multilingual Health information materials are in multiple formats - handouts, audio, multimedia, web-video and (some) iPod videos, and multiple languages.
NAMI - Multicultural Support
National Alliance on Mental Illness. Resources in
Chinese,
Italian,
Portugese, Spanish
Chinese,
Italian,
Portugese, Spanish
National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
en espanol
Health information featured on the website includes
publications on stroke, dementia, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and autism, as
well as many other neurological disorders. (Trastornos neurológicos). From the
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
[new]
Oficina de salud de las Minorías
en espanol Actualidad, Temas de Salud, Conozca sus derechos, Acceso a los servicios de salud.
[new]
SPIRAL
Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages from Tufts University Hirsh Health Sciences Library.
Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese
Chinese, Cambodian/Khmer, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Thai, Vietnamese
Native American Health Resources
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
American Indian Health
National Library of Medicine
Indian Health Service
Federal Health Program for American Indians and Alaska natives
Medicare Information
for American Indian/Alaska Natives
NAMI - Native American Resources
National Alliance on the Mental IllnessNAMI - . Native American Resources
Native American Health
National Network of the Libraries of Medicine
Native Circle
The American Indian/Alaska Native Cancer Information Resource Center and Learning Exchange from the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Native Web
Health and Elder Resources
Tribal Connections
eHealth Information resources from the National Library of Medicine
Tribal Connections Four Corners Go Local
Search for Services by location in Four Corners area
Glossaries, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias
Diccionarios en idioma Español
en español
Health Encyclopedia, Illustrated
en español
Multilingual Glossary
of popular technical and medical terms in nine European languages
Research in Multicultural and Multilingual Health
Center for Research on Minority Health
MD Anderson Cancer Center
CIRRIE
International Rehabilitation Research
Minority Health Project
Links to Research Programs on Minority and Community Health
National Center for Health Statistics
Minority Populations
National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases
Office of Minority Health Research Coordination