Multicultural Health
Cultural Care Tools
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 briefly 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 concepts 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
Cultural Competency
State & Federal Laws
- Federal Civil Rights Act
- Executive Order 13166
- Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act of California
Government Offices
- HRSA's Cultural Competence
- Compilation of assessment tools, culture, language, disease/condition, education, research, training curricula and web-based training
- US Office of Minority Health(OMH)
- Provides information about the health of race and ethnic populations and health disparities in the US. It includes statistics by race/ethnicity and health topic
- California Office of Multicultural Health
Stanford
- Stanford eCampus Geriatrics
- Provides peer-reviewed learning modules, case studies, exercises and evaluation tools to improve patient-provider communication with regards to older adults from various ethnic backgrounds in the US.
Cultural Competency
- Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture
- Provides exercises and examples to improve patient-provider communication by the Management Sciences for Health
- Office of Minority Health's Cultural Competence
- AAMC Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training
- DHHS Think Cultural Health
- AMA Culturally Effective Health Care
- OMH Cultural Competency
Health Disparities
Natural & Integrative Medicine
- Natural Medicines
- A searchable database of natural product monographs that reviews the best scientific evidence; focusing on effectiveness
- Integrative Medicine
- A textbook on integration of Western and other therapies with evidence references
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Assess Your Competence is a self-evaluation tool from the National Center for Cultural Competence.
Multi-lingual Patient Handouts
Stanford site with a mission to increase
the overall knowledge and skills of medical students, house staff,
and other professionals, including practicing physicians on the
ethnic, cultural, religious, socioeconomic, linguistic and other
factors that contribute to health disparities, and on culturally
competent approaches to mitigating these disparities.