Links
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Culturally Competent Care Tools
American Academy of Pediatrics: Practice Management Online (http://practice.aap.org/content.aspx?aid=2990) American Academy of Pediatrics have their Culturally Effective Care Toolkit available online.
Genetic Counseling Cultural Competence Toolkit Online (http://www.geneticcounselingtoolkit.com/multilingual_resources.htm) They share their Multilingual Resources with the public.
The Office of Minority Health Resource Center (http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/) serves as a national resource and referral service on minority health issues. The center collects and distributes information on a wide variety of health topics, including substance abuse, cancer, heart disease, violence, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and infant mortality. The Resource Center also facilitates the exchange of information on minority health issues. Unlike a clearinghouse, OMH-RC offers customized database searches, publications, mailing lists, referrals, and more in-depth information on minority populations. The OMHRC can be contacted toll free at 1-800-444-6472 to request publications, articles, and database searches on minority health topics.
The Center for the Health Professions (http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/)
The Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco develops programs and resources addressing a range of issues that impact the health care system and workforce in California and nationwide, including: 1) supply and distribution; 2) skills and training; 3) cultural competency and diversity; and 4) leadership, partnership, and vision.
Diversity Rx
(http://www.diversityrx.org)
Diversity Rx is a website that promotes cultural & linguistic competence to improve the quality of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities.
The National Center for Cultural Competence (http://gucchd.georgetown.edu//nccc) aims to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally & linguistically competent service delivery systems. Part of the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, one of the Center's most recent products is a Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Self-Assessment.
The Geriatric Depression Scale (http://www.stanford.edu/~yesavage/GDS.html) is available in 30 languages and is available in the public domain at the website cited below:
Health Care Links
- California DHS: Multicultural Health
- Center for Cross Cultural Health (CCCH)
- Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
- EthnoMed Home Page (Ethnic Medicine Information)
- Office for Civil Rights, HHS
- Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
- Multicultural Health Clearinghouse
- U.S. Food & Drug Administration Easy-to-Read Publications--Spanish Brochures
General Diversity Links
- Department of the Interior Office for Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and Ethnic Studies (Iowa State University)
- Diversity Database (University of Maryland)
- Diversity Training University International
- Diversity World
- Diversity Central
- DiversityStore.com- Multicultural Education, Hispanic Heritage Month and Black History Month
- Diversity at Santa Clara University
- Institute for Diversity In Health Management
- Korean Cultural Service
- Diversity Calendar (University of Kansas Medical Center)
- Census 2000: The Geography of US Diversity
- Outright Speakers & Talent Bureau (LGBT Speakers)
- Diversity in Organizations