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Websites with Information on Specific Cultures
http://www.omhrc.gov Office of Minority Health
http://www.topics-mag.com/Topics Online Magazine in which people from various cultures write about their experiences and different cultures
http://offices.colgate.edu/alana-cultural-center/communityservice/utica/Supplemental/Health_utili.htm Colgate University Bassett-St Elizabeth’s Family Residency Program, providing culturally sensitive healthcare. Has guides for working with different cultures. (scroll to bottom of page)
http://www.ggalanti.com/ This site promotes a book and workshops on cultural competence, but also has links to good articles and information about various cultures
http://www.edupass.org/culture “Smartstudent” guide to studying in US – tells about US culture from the perspective of other cultures (fun and educational to read!)
http://www.health.ri.gov/chic/minority/mhfs-all-2007R0507.pdf This is the 2007 Minority Health Fact Sheets prepared by the Rhode Island Office of Minority Health. This report provides information about major health indicators in the racial and ethnic minority populations of Rhode Island.
http://www.hmongcenter.org This site provides information on the Hmong culture
http://erc.msh.org/ From here, click on “The Provider’s Guide to Quality and Culture.” This site is designed to help healthcare organizations throughout the world provide high quality, culturally competent care. Has info about different cultures.
http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu UCLA’s folk medicine archive resource. User can enter an illness and receive all sorts of information on various folk cures for the particular disease.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/healthus.htm Article by Ann Sutherland about Romani patients
Websites with Information on Cultural Competence & Healthcare
http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/nccc/ National Center for Cultural Competence at Georgetown University. Has many useful resources.
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English Provider’s Guide to Quality and Culture. Has many useful resources for healthcare providers related to cultural differences.
http://www.omhrc.gov/OMHRC/ US Office of Minority Health. Has useful information and links
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm A website related to refugee health and immigrant health
Books For Learning About Different Cultures
Allmond, B.& Tanner, J. (1999) The family is the patient: using family interviews in children’s medical care, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
Galanti, Geri-Ann. Caring for Patients from Different Cultures: Case Studies from American Hospitals. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997 (Chapters on different concepts, e.g., Communication, Gender differences, Pain, Family, Dietary Practices and many more. Within each chapter, to illustrate each concept, are case studies which cover a wide variety of specific cultures)
Gerteis, M., Edgman-Levitan, S., Daley, J., Delbanco, TL (Eds.) (1993), Through the patient’s eyes: understanding and promoting patient-centered care. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Gropper, Rena. Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions. Yarmouth, Maine: Intercultural Press, 1996. (Case studies on various aspects of a wide range of cultures, fun and readable, with useful explanations)
Iwaishi,L, Taba, S., Howard-Jones, A., Brockman, D., Yamashita, L, & Ambrose, A. (1998) Training on family-centered interprofessional collaboration. Health Education Collaboration Project, Hawaii Medical Association. (Excellent full curriculum)
Julia, Maria. Multicultural Awareness in the HealthCare Professions. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996.
Lipsin, Juliene, Dibble, Suzanne, and Minarek, Pamela. Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide. San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 2002 (Provides a list of topics, e.g., Bodily care, Communication, Cultural Identity, Dietary Practices and many others, for a large number of cultures. In “cookbook” format but actually quite comprehensive and useful)
McGoldrick, Monica; Giordano, Joe and Pearce, John. Ethnicity and Family Therapy. New York: The Guilford Press, 1996
Solomon, Cate. Active Learning Exercises for Social Work and the Human Services. (2000). Needham Heights, Massachusetts: Allyn and Bacon.
Webb, Nancy. Culturally Diverse Parent-Child Relationships: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Practitioners. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.
Articles Related to Cultural Competence
Depiro, P. (2000). Eliminating disparities in asthma management. Patient Care. www.patientcareonline.com. Retrieved July 20, 2004
Laviso-Roury, L, MacKenzie, E. (1996) Cultural Competence: Essential Measurements of Quality for Managed Care Organizations. Annals of Internal Medicine. 124 (10) http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15may96/cultcomp.htm Retrieved July 19, 2004.
Adams, E.V. Hallmarks of a culturally derived program. Policy Planning for Culturally Comprehensive Special Health Services, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, US Department of Health and Human Services; February 1990.
Carillo, J.E., Green, A.R., Betancourt, J.R., Cross-cultural Primary Care: A Patient Based Approach. (1999) Annals of Internal Medicine, 130(10). 829-833. (Describes a curriculum that they’ve developed with 5 modules—good article)
Feldman, M. & Christenson, J. (1997) Behavioral medicine in primary care. Chapter 13, Cross Cultural Communication. Stamford, CT: Appleton & Lange.
Leiberman, L.S., Stoller, E.P., and Burg, M. (1997). Womens health care: cross cultural encounters within the medical system. Journal of the Florida Medical Association 84(6), 364-373. (Makes a lot of generalizations, but still an ok article)
Rodriguez, J. Chaplains’ communications with Latino patients: case studies on nonverbal communication. (1999). Journal of Patoral Care, 53(3), 309-317.
Hardie, G.E., Janson, S., Gold, W.M., Carrieri-Kohlman,V.C., Boushey, H.A. Word descriptors used by African-american and white asthma patients during induced bronchcoconstriction. Chest, 117(4), 2000, 935-943. (Very interesting study suggesting that physician’s choice of words when asking patients about symptoms may affect their ability to make an accurate diagnosis, if physician is white and patient is African-american).
Mayer, P.L. What caregivers should know about people of other cultures and religions. Cultural Competency in Behavioral Health. 2002.SAMHC Behavioral Health Services (again, a little cook-book-y with generalizations, but also very comprehensive and useful)
Vivian, Carrie and Dundes, Lauren. The crossroads of culture and health among the Roma (Gypsies). Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 36 (1), March 2004: 88