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Culturally Competent Care for Somalis

Selected and compiled by Jacquelyn Coughlan, M.S., M.L.S.

Adair, R., Nwarneri, O., Barnes, N. (1999). Health care access for Somali refugees: Views of patients, doctors, nurses. American Journal of Health Behavior, 4, 286-293.

Arbesman, M., Kahler, L., & Buck, G.M. (1993). Assessment of the impact of female circumcision on the gynecological, genitourinary and obstetrical health problems of women from Somalia: Literature review and case series. Women & Health, 20, 27-42.

Beine, K., Fullerton, J., Palinkas, L., & Anders, B. (1995). Conceptions of prenatal care among Somali women in San Diego. Journal of Nurse-Midwifery, 40, 376-381.

Bemak, F., Chung,, R. C., & Pedersen, P. B. (2003). Case study of Khadra, a 16-year-old Somali. A psychosocial approach to innovative multicultural interventions (pp. 96-100). Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

Berns McGown, R. (1999). Muslims in the diaspora: The Somali communities of London and Toronto. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Beveridge, S. (1995). Oral health beliefs, traditions, and practices of the Somali Culture. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/somali/som_oral_health.html

Bhui, K., Abdi, A., Abdi, M., Pereira, S., Dualeh, M., et al. (2003). Traumatic events, migration characteristics and psychiatric symptoms among Somali refugees--preliminary communication. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 38, 35-43.

Chalmers, B., & Hashi, K. O. (2000, December). 432 Somali women's birth experiences in Canada after earlier female genital mutilation. Birth, 27(4), 227-234.

Conco, W. Z. (1972). The African Bantu traditional practice of medicine: Some preliminary observations. Social Science & Medicine, 6(3), 283-322.

Davies, M. M., & Bath, P. A. The maternity information concerns of Somali women in the United Kingdom. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 36(2), 237-245.

Dirie, M. A., & Lindmark, G. (1991). Female circumcision in Somalia and women's motives. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 70, 581-585.

Grassivaro-Gallo, P., & Viviani, F. (1992). The origin of infibulation in Somalia: An ethological hypothesis. Ethology and Sociobiology, 13, 253-265.

Guerin, P. B., Diiriye, R. O., Corrigan, C., & Guerin B. (2003). Physical activity programs for refugee Somali women: Working out in a new country. Women & Health, 38(1), 83-99.

Halcon, L. L., Robertson, C. L., Savik, K., Johnson, D. R., et. al. (2004). Trauma and coping in Somali and Oromo refugee youth. Journal of Adolescent Health, 35(1), 17-25.

Haq, A. S. (2003). Report on Somali Diet. Retrieved August 29, 2005, from http://ethnomed.org/ethnomed/cultures/somali/somali_clin.html

Herrel, N., Olevitch, L., DuBois, D. K., Terry, P., Thorp, D., Kind, E., & Said, A. (2004). Somali refugee women speak out about their needs for care during pregnancy and delivery. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 49(4), 345-349.

Jaranson, J. M., Butcher, J., Halcon, L., Johnson, D. R., et. al. (2004). Somali and Oromo refugees: Correlates of torture and trauma history. American Journal of Public Health, 94(4), 591-598.

Johansen, R. E. (2002, September). Pain as a counterpoint to culture: Toward an analysis of pain associated with infibulation among Somali immigrants in Norway. Medical Anthropoloy Quarterly, 16(3), 312-340.

Laverentz, M. L., Cox, C. C., & Jordan, M. (1999). The Nuer nutrition education program: Breaking down cultural barriers. Health Care for Women International, 20, 593-601.

McCrone, P., Bhui, K., Craig, T., & Mohamud, S. (2005). Mental health needs, service use and costs among Somali refugees in the UK. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 111(5), 351.

McMichael, Celia. (2002). "Everywhere is Allah's place": Islam and the everyday life of Somali women in Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Refugee Studies, 15 (2), 171-188.

Minnesota Department of Human Services. HIV/AIDS division case management training introduction. Retrieved April 14, 2005, from http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs_id_017788.pdf

Morison, L. A., Dirir, A., Elmi, S., Warsame, J., & Dirir, S. (2004). How experiences and attitudes relating to female circumcision vary according to age on arrival in Britain: A study among young Somalis in London. Ethnicity and Health, 9(1), 75-100.

Nathaly, H., Olevitch, L., DuBois, D. K., Terry, P., Thorp, D., Kind, E., et al. (2004). Somali refugee women speak out about their needs for care during pregnancy and delivery. Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 49, 345-349.

Ntiri, D.W. (1993). Circumcision and health among rural women of Southern Somalia as part of a family life survey. Health Care for Women International, 14, 215-226.

Nybro, L. (1998). How a midwife can change attitudes. Entre Nous Cph Den, 38, 7.

Odenwald, M., Neuner, F., Schauer, M., Elbert, T., Catani, C., Lingenfelder, B., et al. (2005). Khat use as risk factor for psychotic disorders: A cross-sectional and case-control study in Somalia. BMC Medicine, 3(1), 5.

Paisley, J. A., Haines, J., Greenberg, M., Makarchuk, M., et al. (2002). An examination of cancer risk beliefs among adults from Toronto's Somali, Chinese, Russian and Spanish-speaking communities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 93, 138-141.

Shelp, A. (2004). Women helping women: The Somali Doula initiative. International Journal of Childbirth Education, 19, 4-6.

Shetty, N., Shemko, M., & Abbas, A. (2004). Knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding tuberculosis among immigrants of Somalian ethnic origin in London: A cross-sectional study. Communicable Disease and Public Health, 7(1), 77-82.

Tailoring education for a lost Somali patient: Goal was teaching diabetes control. (2003). Patient Education Management, 10, 101-102.

Vangen, S., Johansen, R. E., Sundby, J., Traeen, B., & Stray-Pedersen, B. (2004). Qualitative study of perinatal care experiences among Somali women and local health care professionals in Norway. European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology, 112(1), 29-35.

Whittaker, S., Hardy, G., Lewis, K., & Buchan, L. (2005). An exploration of psychological well-being with young Somali refugee and asylum-seeker women. Clinical and Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 10, 177-196.

Zarowsky, C. (2000). Trauma stories: Violence, emotion and politics in Somali Ethiopia. Transcultural Psychiatry, 37, 383-402.

Zarowsky, C. (2004). Writing trauma: emotion, ethnography, and the politics of suffering among Somali returnees in Ethiopia. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 28(2), 189-209.

 

 

 

 



©Jacquelyn Coughlan, October 2005 (37 citations)
 

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