Multicultural Health Portal

Culture Guides

• Provider's Guide to Patient-Provider Interaction provides information that health care professionals can use to improve the quality of their interactions with patients whose culture may differ from their own
• Guide to Culturally Competent Care is a textbook with a chapter breifly describing communication, family roles, high-risk behaviors, nutrition, pregnancy, death, spirituality, health practices and health practitioners for 24 cultures.
• Culture Clues are tip sheets create by the University of Washington for clinicians designed to increase awareness about concetps and preferences of patients from diverse cultures.
• Ethnomed covers cultural beliefs and medical issues for recent immigrants to Seattle, including Amharic, Cambodian, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean and Vietnamese.

Language Access

• LPCH Interpreter Services
• SHC Interpreter Services
• I Speak   translation services poster
• English - Multi-lingual Dictionary
• Foreign Language Assessment Guide
• Addressing Language Access Issues in Your Practice   by the California Academy of Family Physicians
• Medical Jargon and Clear Communication   by California Academy of Family Physicians