Community Health Education Center

Multicultural Health Care

Alaska Native Cultural Profile: Description of Eskimo anthropology and health practices. Includes several links.

Asian American Health: An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the United States. Compiled by the National Library of Medicine.

Assuring Cultural Competence in Health Care: Recommended standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate health care by the Office of Minority Health, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

BC HealthFiles: Easy-to-read one page fact sheets on a variety of health topics. Some are available in Chinese, French, Punjabi, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Cambodian Cultural Profile: From Ethnomed at the University of Washington. Detailed description of health practices and differences with U.S. medicine.

Cross Cultural Health Care Program: A multicultural health project based in Seattle, Washington.

CLAS ACT: Culturally and linguistically appropriate health care services resource guide. Contains general, language, and research resources.

Culture, Health and Literacy: Health education materials for adults with limited English literacy skills. Flyers in multiple laguages, but not all flyers in all languages. Languages include: Arabic, Bosnian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Chinese, Farsi, French, Haitian, Hindi, Hmong, Italian, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Mien, Nuer, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Tongan, Vietnamese.

Discover with Diversity Rx: Dealing with diverse patient populations. Standard of practice for medical interpreters.

EthnoMed Patient Education Resources: Culturally sensitive patient handouts in multiple languages.

Health Information Translations: A web site which provides health information in several languages. This is a collaborative project to produce valuable resources for health education in diverse communities.

Health and Literacy Special Collections: Contains a language index and for each language, provides a list of websites that contain health information written in that language. The site also has a link to easy-to-read information.

HICUP:Health Information in Chinese Uniting Patients, Physicians and the Public: From New York University's Medical Center, this site offers health information in Chinese.

Jehovah's Witnesses: Links to Religious Tolerence.org to discuss the use of blood, among other things.

Mexican Cultural Profile: From Ethnomed, this profile contains societal and religious beliefs that influence health practices.

National Alliance for Hispanic Health: Health fact sheets are available in English and Spanish. The Alliance is the foremost national resource on Hispanic health issues. This organization is the Nation’s oldest and largest network of Hispanic health and human services providers.

National Center for Cultural Competence: The mission of the Center is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.

NSW Health - Multicultural Communication: Over 450 publications available in many languages.Sponsored by the New South Wales (Australia) Health Department. They promise to produce a new publication each month.

SPIRAL: Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages: This site provides access to health information in several Asian languages: Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Laotion, Thai and Vietnamese. It also contains links to a variety of Asian and Pacific Islander health resources. This site in a joint project of the Tufts University Health Sciences Library and South Cove Community Health Center.

Patient Education Materials: Links to excellent sites with foreign language handouts

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants: Information on topics such as HIV, STDs, cold, flu, TB, smoking, diabetes, heart disease obesity, pap tests, mammgrams, menstrual cycle, patient's rights, and emergency rooms in a variety of langues including Arabic, Karen, Somali, Burmese, Kirundi, Vietnamese, English, and Russian.

24 languages Project: Health education brochures in 24 languages. Topics include infectious diseases, dementia, mammography. The site is maintained by the Eccles Health Sciences Library at the Univeristy of Utah.

Updated 03/05/2008