Healthcare Links

http://www.OMHRC.gov/CLAS/
Federal Mandates as stipulated by the Office of Minority Health. These mandates, which are applicable to all health centers which receive Federal funding, detail all aspects of creating a culturally competent organization.

http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/
A wealth of information from Australia. A huge quantity of general health information fact sheets that are available in an enormous selection of languages. NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (Multicultural Communication) provides information and services to assist health professionals to communicate with non English speaking communities throughout New South Wales.

http://www.DiversityRX.org
From legal questions to best practices this site covers it.

http://www.xculture.org/index.cfm
Since 1992, the CCHCP has been addressing broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. Lots of links.

http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/asian_health.html
Asian-American Health : Cambodian (Khmer), Laotian, Vietnamese, More

http://www.iun.edu/~libemb/trannurs/trannurs.htm
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links from the Indiana University Medical Library as well as associated resources within their library. Includes country links.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2661.html
Cultural Competence Compendium 1999 from the American Medical Association
 "Give me standard patients and I'll practice standard medicine." --James S. Todd, MD, AMA Executive Vice President, 1990-1996

http://www.air.org/cccm/progress/putsch.pdf
The Cross Cultural Health Care and The American Institutes for ResearchQuality communication lies at the core of cultural competency. The domains outlined in the article are intended as outlines and tools to organize, teach, and assess health care training programs around issues related to communications, class, culture, language and power.

http://www.opening-doors.org/
Opening Doors: Reducing Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care
A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Opening Doors supports service and research projects to identify and break down nonfinancial, culturally based barriers to health care.

http://www.ethnomed.org/
Ethnic medicine information from Harborview Medical Center The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

http://www.omhrc.gov/
MISSION The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will address health disparities.

http://www.diversitycentral.com
The focus is on diversity and cross-cultural management for business. Publish Cultural Diversity at Work

http://www.minorityhealth.org/
Minority Health Professions Foundation

http://www.omhrc.gov/
Federal Office of Minority Health

http://www.alz.org//Resources/Diversity/
Offers materials "on Alzheimer's disease, dementia care, and other dementia-related topics" for families, caregivers, and health practitioners serving ethnically diverse communities. The site includes resources in other languages (including Chinese, Korean, and Spanish), links to Web sites, and information about providing culturally sensitive care.

http://asianamericanhealth.nlm.nih.gov/
Asian American Health: An information portal to issues affecting the health and well-being of Asian Americans in the United States.

http://www.crosshealth.com/
The mission of the Center for Cross Cultural Health is 'to integrate the role of culture in improving health.'  Our vision is to ensure that diverse populations receive culturally competent and sensitive health and human service.

http://www.nursingworld.org/readroom/position/ethics/etcldv.htm
As adopted by American Nursing Association.Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice This statement describes the features of an operational definition of cultural diversity as it is expressed in nursing practice, education, administration and research.

http://cwr.utoronto.ca/cultural/
Cultural Profile Project

http://www.diversityhotwire.com
Cultural Diversity Hot-wire

http://www.cstprogram.org/cosp/groups/diversity.htm
Cultural Competency and Diversity

http://www.healthadvocates.info
Health Advocates

http://www.aamc.org/about/progemph/diverse/start.htm
Health Professionals for Diversity

http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/mcultlink.html
Multicultural Links

http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/multicultural/sites1.html
Multicultural Pavilion

http://www.mncounties.org/metroplan/MinHealth.htm
Minority Health Needs Assessment

http://www.culturalhealing.com
National Center for Cultural Healing

http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=5.0.htm&language=Englis
Providers Guide to Quality and Culture

http://www.transculturalcare.net 
Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates

http://www.tcns.org
Transcultural Nursing Society

http://www.culturalcompetence2.com
CEO Services, (for consulting, education, organizational development)

http://gucdc.georgetown.edu/nccc/index.html
Georgetown University, National Center for Cultural Competence

http://www.bphc.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/
Cultural Competence: A Journey publication number PC546

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/3066.html
Cultural Competence Compendium

http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/OMH/OMH/disparities/  
Eliminating Health Disparities in the United States publication number HRS00167

http://www.aoa.gov/minorityaccess/guidbook2001/
Administration on Aging: Achieving Cultural Competence, A Guidebook for Providers of Services to Older Americans and their Families 

http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/sidebar/omh-publications.htm
Closing the Gap-Newsletter of OMH. Great Links!

www.crosshealth.org
Books and resources on cross cultural healthcare topics.

http://www.omhrc.gov/omh/sidebar/cossmo/toc.htm
Office of Minority Health, Assessment of State Minority Health Infrastructure and Capacity to Address Issues of Health Disparity

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/healthplans/quality/project03.asp
Information on culturally competent care in regards to Medicare and Medicaid

http://www.omhrc.gov/CLAS
Office of Minority Health, CLAS Standards and Final Report: 

http://www.hrsa.gov/omh/
Office of Minority Health Geneal Information

http://www.healthfinder.gov/
Healthfinder

http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/merboard/index.html
The WWW V-Lib: Migration and Ethnic Relations

http://www.towson.edu/~ewheeler/web2.html
Cross-Cultural Psychology

http://www.wiche.edu/MentalHealth/CCStandards/ccslist.htm
WICHE (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education): Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Mental Health

http://user.pro-ns.net/~larue/
Multi-Cultural Education Services *Great resource for translated materials*

http://www.multilingual-health-education.net/#top
Multilingual Health Education Net    This site offers translated health education materials in a number of languages, including Spanish, English, French, Farsi, Hindi, Punjabi, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Darshan, and Italian.

Population/Community Specific Health

http://www.pallcare.asn.au/mc/mccontents.html
This site includes care guides to the following “language groups”: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese.

http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/
Africa South of the Sahara: General country links - not necessarily on healthcare.

http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm
Country Health Profiles. Offers data and analysis on health and related sociological factors in the nations of the Americas. Access statistics on demographics, socioeconomic data, health risk factors, health care access, and mortality rates as well as an analysis of these and other data.

http://www.africanamericanhealth.com/
African American Health

http://www.aawc.com/aar.html
African American Resources

http://www.asaging.org
American Society on Aging

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/popfam/
Center for Population and Family Health

http://clnet.ucr.edu/research/health.html
Health Link to Chicano-Latino Health Information

http://www.hmongcenter.org
Hmong Resource Centre

http://www.laofamily.org/health
Lao Family Community's Health Web

http://www.pitt.edu/~ejb4/min
Minority Health Network

http://www.rainbo.org
RAINBOx

http://www.isp.acad.umn.edu/RSC/rsc.html
Refugee Study Center

http://www.somalianwomen.org
Somali Women's Association

www.apha.org/ppp/red 
American Public Health Association Immigrant Maternal Health:

http://www.cvt.org
The Center for Victims of Torture

http://CMHSweb.org
Center for Multicultural Human Services

http://cecp.air.org/cultural/
The CECP works to improving services to children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems.

http://www.xculture.org/training/overview/cultural/assessment.html
Cultural Competency Assessments

http://www.drugdigest.org/
DrugDigest. Consumer health information about drugs, herbs, and supplements. Features include a page to check for drug interactions, glossary, drug comparison page, and a treatment options page. Searchable.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
MEDLINEplus: Drug Information "Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI Advice for the Patient, a product of the United State Pharmacopeia (USP)."