This Web site is designed to assist health care organizations throughout the US in providing high quality, culturally competent services to multi-ethnic populations.
Joint project of Management Sciences for Health (MSH),U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,Health Resources and Services Administration,Bureau of Primary Health Care.

Culture Clues
University of Washington Medical Center
Culture Clues are tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from diverse cultures. Cultures include Albanian, Chinese, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Korean, Latino, Russian, Somali, Vietnamese. Also available are tip sheets regarding end-of-life care for these cultures: Latino, Russian, Vietnamese.

Cultural Diversity
Myer, Ehren. (2006). RNotes: Nurse's Clinical Pocket Guide. F.A. Davis
The table from RNotes by Ehren Myers includes cultural characteristics of groups that are widely dispersed throughout U.S.
Page 1: African-Americans, Arab-Americans, Asian-Americans and Bosnian-Americans.
Page 2: Native-Americans, Mexican-Americans and Russian-Americans

Cross-Cultural Health Care Resource Guide

Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

In an effort to encourage culturally proficient care, Children’s Mercy Hospitals, Clinics and Family Health Partners compiled this guide for:Amish and Old Order Mennonite, African-American, Arab, Asian Indian, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Cuban, Filipino, First Nation (Native American), Haitian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Russian, Samoan, Somalian, Sudanese, Vietnamese, Western European American.

Religious Diversity: Practical Points for Health Care Providers

University of Pennsylvania

Provides brief lists which address select points for the care of patients from Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Muslim and Pentecostal traditions.

Think Cultural Health (TCH): Communication Tools

This section of Think Cultural Health offers tools and resources that will help you and your organization communicate effectively with your patients and clients.Check out the handouts below.

EthnoMed
A joint project of University of Washington Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Centers, this Web site provides health information about cultural, medical, and other issues pertinent to the care of immigrant and refugee groups. EthnoMed is designed to be used in clinics by care providers in the few minutes before seeing a patient. The web site currently has specific pages for 22 ethnic groups.

Multicultural Health Communication

Multicultural Communication provides a number of services to health professionals working with ethnic communities, including information and advice on appropriate ways to communicate with people of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.

Multi-Cultural Resources for Health Information

In 2000, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) created the Office of Outreach and Special Populations (OOSP). Outreach programs are developed in an effort to eliminate disparities in accessing health information and designing special population Web sites that address specific concerns in various racial and ethnic groups.

Geri-Ann Galanti page: Cultural Diversity in health care

Articles written on cultural diversity by Geri-Ann Galanti and other authors

Ethnic & Religious Dates and Holidays

There is a distinction between religious holy days, sectarian holidays, and ethnic holidays and festivals which are routinely celebrated in the United States of America, i.e. Christmas, New Year, etc., and religious work-restricted holy days which are based upon religious tenets, laws, and/or doctrine.To find information about cultural and religious dates, use the calendars listed below.

Diversity Calendar (The University of Kansas Medical Center) The calendar gives a listing of important ethnic & religious dates and holidays. Select a month to view Ethnic and Religious holidays by month. Some holidays have detailed information.
Ethnic Holiday Calendar
When Is - Dates of Religious and Civil Holidays Around the World.
Calendar of Cultural and Religious Dates:The Calendar aims to raise awareness of key cultural and religious events, festivals and national days.

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