Cultural Diversity

End-of-Life-care

• Cultural beliefs about a patient's right time to die: an exploratory study
  Perkins HS, Cortez JD, Hazuda HP.
  Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2009, 24(11):1240-7.

• Culturally Diverse Communities and End-of-Life Care
  American Psychological Association

• End of Life Care: An Ethical Overview
  Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota, 2005. This publication is available full-text online.

• End-of-life care: Resources
  Duke Divinity School

• National Resource Center on Diversity in End-of-Life Care
  NRCD is an information and technical assistance resource which provide information, materials, training and networking opportunities to improve end-of-life care for Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans and others

       Full-Text  Journal Articles and Publications

• Cultural Diversity at the End of Life: Issues and Guidelines for Family Physicians

• It’s About How You Live In Faith: Community Outreach Guide

• Key Topics on End-of-Life Care for African Americans

• Offering Spiritual Support for Family or Friends

• The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations around Illness, End-of-Life, and Grief    

       African-American

• African American Outreach Guide (Full-text-PDF)
  In collaboration with ICEOL, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Caring Connections has produced the African American Outreach Guide for hospices and other organizations.
• Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the African American Community
  LaVera Crawley, Richard Payne, James Bolden, et al.
  JAMA. 2000, 284(19):2518-2521.
  

       Jewish

• Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End-of-Life: A Guide to Caring for Jewish Patients and Families

• World Religions: Judaism
  Northwestern University
  Includes basic facts about Jewish traditions, actions before and after death, implications for hospice/palliative care.
  

        Muslim

• Considering Faith Within Culture When Caring for the Terminally Ill Muslim Patient and Family
  Khlood Salman, Rick Zoucha
  Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 2010, 12(3):156-63.
• End-of-life: the Islamic view
• Palliative Care for Muslim Patients

       Associations/Organizations

• The Center to Advance Palliative Care

Works to increase palliative care options for dying patients, particularly within hospitals

• Hospice Association of America (HAA)

Represents more than 3,000 home care and hospice programs and has a strong lobbying component

• The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)

Provides hospice care, advocates for the rights of terminally ill patients and connects patients and families with hospice programs

       Audiovisual Clips

       Listed below are some video clips about the End-of-life Care

• Heart to Heart: Improving Care for the Dying Through Public Policy Part IV: Cultural Diversity and Discrimination (MP3)

Health resources for minorities

• Minority Women’s Health
  Rresources focused on minority women, including African American, Hispanic, American Indian and Asian, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• National Alliance for Hispanic Health
  Advocacy, research and health reform organization focused on improving the health and well-being of Hispanics
• Office of Minority Health
  Database search engine from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (also en Español)
• Office of Health Disparities 
  Up-to-date information on health issues concerning women, ethnic and racial populations, and other special populations from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (also en Español)
• Intercultural Cancer Council
  Cancer fact sheets discussing disparities in services and treatment for medically undeserved populations