(An imperfect,
computer-generated translator) Utah Disparities Office Cultural Competence
This online tutorial is by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and provides CEU/CE, CHES, CME and CNE credits.
ftp://ftp.hrsa.gov/healthliteracy/training.pdf
This site contains information on a variety of
racial, ethnic and cultural groups as well as training opportunities.
http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/
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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/disparities/healthcare/AfricanAmerican.pdf
American Indian http://www.health.utah.gov/disparities/healthcare/AmericanIndian.pdf
Hispanic/Latino http://www.health.utah.gov/disparities/healthcare/HispanicLatino.pdf
Pacific Islander http://www.health.utah.gov/disparities/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.hhs.gov
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Information and materials have been gathered in this resource kit to help you understand and utilize the many aspects of the new health care law.
http://health.utah.gov/disparities/data/ACAResourceKit.pdf
Located at Georgetown University, this Center offers information and assessment tools to help healthcare providers with cultural competence.
http://nccc.georgetown.edu/index.html
Evaluate your own unconscious biases with this online tool.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
This resource maps health problems by zipcode and other measures and links to minority health resources.
http://www.nmqf.org/
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://www.ccah-alliance.org/icetoolkit.html
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.hhs.gov
http://www.qsource.org/uqiosc/CLASGuide.pdf
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
http://medweb.med.harvard.edu/cccec/about/index.htm
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/resources/guides/culturalcompetence.html
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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), created this overview of health issues among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations to create awareness among prevention specialists and healthcare providers of the needs, experiences, and health status of LGBT Americans.
http://store.samhsa.gov/shin/content//SMA12-4684/SMA12-4684.pdf
Based on the analysis of qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and focus groups collected through a community-based participatory project, this report provides an overview of American Muslim health beliefs, describes how these beliefs impact healthcare-seeking practices, and recommends accommodations that can improve the healthcare experience of American Muslim patients.
http://ispu.org/pdfs/620_ISPU_Report_Aasim%20Padela_final.pdf
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.htm
This site contains information about cultural beliefs
and medical issues of many immigrant groups from Latin America, Asia
and Africa.
http://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://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=1&lvlID=3
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7639.html
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