This is a training for Utah Department of Health employees by the Center for Multicultural Health.
http://health.utah.gov/cmh/training/MulticulturalHealth101.pdf
This online tutorial is by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and provides CEU/CE, CHES, CME and CNE credits.
http://www.hrsa.gov/healthliteracy/training.htm
This site contains information on a variety of
racial, ethnic and cultural groups as well as training opportunities.
http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/
This site offers networking and training opportunities.
http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm
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In collaboration with other universities, Stanford created
this curriculum about serving ethnic and racial minority seniors.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ethnoger/
The Collaborative on Ethnogeriatric Education has kindly
allowed CMH to abridge some of its training modules into brief fact
sheets:
African American http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/healthcare/AfricanAmerican.pdf
American Indian http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/healthcare/AmericanIndian.pdf
Hispanic/Latino http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/healthcare/HispanicLatino.pdf
Pacific Islander http://www.health.utah.gov/cmh/healthcare/PacificIslander.pdf
This training explains the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically
Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care and offers CME and CE credits.http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/
http://www.amsa.org/programs/gpit/cultural.cfm
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This guide by the National Committee for Quality Assurance helps healthcare organizations improve cultural and linguistic services.
http://www.ncqa.org/Portals/0/HEDISQM/CLAS/CLAS_toolkit.pdf
This toolkit was created by a national team of healthcare professionals.
http://iceforhealth.org/library/documents/ICE_C&L_Provider_Tool_Kit.10-06.pdf
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
has compiled resources to help healthcare providers meet the national standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service (CLAS). The guide is an excellent supplement to the online training: http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/
http://www.qsource.org/uqiosc/CLASGuide.pdf
This toolkit, prepared by the Central Coast Alliance for Health, offers
several practical suggestions for communicating effectively with diverse
clients.
http://www.ccah-alliance.org/icetoolkit.htm
This site, created by Management Sciences for Health, includes cultural
competence self-assessments and details about health problems common
in certain minority groups.
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English
This toolkit includes information about coalition-building among communities
of color and overcoming language barriers among African immigrants.
http://www.shireinc.org/reports.htm
http://medweb.med.harvard.edu/cccec/about/index.htm
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/resources/guides/culturalcompetence.html
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This 2006 report by the Latino Healthcare Taskforce
suggests strategies for reducing the uninsured population, empowering
Latinos to be better healthcare consumers, partnering with the Latino
community, and getting more Latinos into healthcare fields.
http://www.borderhealth.org/files/res_642.pdf
This site has cultural information about many different
countries.
This site contains information about cultural beliefs
and medical issues of groups from Europe, North America, Latin America
and Asia.
http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/cultureclues.html
This site contains information about cultural beliefs
and medical issues of many immigrant groups from Latin America, Asia
and Africa.
http://www.ethnomed.org/
This site contains information on a variety of
racial, ethnic and cultural groups as well as training opportunities.
http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/
These sites provide cultural information for a
fee.
http://www.jamardaresources.com/
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The CLAS standards are recommendations for cultural
competence and language accessibility for healthcare organizations
made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of
Minority Health.
http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlID=3
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7639.html
http://www.apa.org/pi/oema/guide.html
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The United States Department of Agriculture provides links to several websites about cultural nutrition guidelines.
http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=270&level3
_id=0&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&topic_id=1339&&placement_default=0
From this site, public health professionals
can search for and share innovations in eliminating health disparities.
http://www.apha.org/NPHW/solutions/
This private foundation promotes innovations in
serving racial and ethnic minorities in healthcare settings.
http://www.cmwf.org/topics/topics.htm?attrib_id=12024
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