Agency
Office of International and Refugee Health. Promotes achievement
of U. S. and international goals through effective participation
in multilateral health organizations. Retrieved September
29, 2004 from http://www.virtualref.com/govagency/287.htm
American
College of Physicians-cultural competence.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15may96/cultcomp.htm
Center for Immigration Studies
Links to: Other immigration-related sites, Other Research
organizations, Government agencies in the United States, publications,
advocates, Foreign government agencies, Other overseas sites.
Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://www.cis.org
The Center
for Cross-Cultural Health. Contains links to other useful
cross cultural web sites. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from
http://www.crosshealth.com/links.htm
The Cross Cultural Health
Care Program. National leaders in training medical interpreters
and educating health care professionals in cultural competency
issues. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from
http://www.xculture.org
Cultural Diversity in Healthcare
(G. Galanti's website). Features case studies in cross-cultural
healthcare. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://ggalanti.com
Cultural
Medicine. This web site contains information on Occupational
Therapy and related links to other web sites. Retrieved September
14, 2004, from http://welcome.to/occupationaltherapy.com
Cultural Orientation
Resource Center, Center for Applied Linguistics
http://www.culturalorientation.net
See also MAMI
(Multicultural Association of Medical Interpreters of Central
New York).
DiversityRx:
Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality
of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse
communities. DiversityRx is a Health and Human Services sponsored
project to evaluate federal, state, and private sector measures
of linguistic and cultural competence. This is the site that
champions national standards for medical interpreters. Retreived
September 14, 2004, from http://www.diversityrx.org
Ethnomed: Ethnic Medicine
Information from Harborview Medical Center
The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs,
medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health
care of recent immigrants; also contains Ethnic Medicine Guide
from Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington.
Contains a Resource Bibliography In Cross Cultural Nursing,
1998, by Melinda Mich and Noel Chrisman, University of Washington.
Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://www.ethnomed.org
Food
and Nutrition Information Center. Cultural and ethnic
food and nutrition education materials: A resource list for
educators. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/ethnic.html
Heartland
Multicultural Services Centre providing high quality physical
and mental health services for refugees and immigrants.
http://www.heartland-alliance.org/MCSC/MCSC.htm
Intercultural Cancer
Council (ICC). Promotes policies, programs, partnerships
and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among
racial and ethnic minorities. Retrieved September 14, 2004,
from http://iccnetwork.org/who
Loa Family Community
Health Web.
http://www.laofamily.org/health
The
Minnesota Department of Health - chart that compares United
States and Foreign Vaccines and links to web sites with immunization
information. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from
http://www.health.state.mn.us/topic.html#immunize
The New York Task Force
on Immigrant Health.
Immigrant Health Web Sites- links to Immigrant Health Web
Sites from the New York Task Force on Immigrant Health. Retrieved
September 14, 2004, from http://www.med.nyu.edu/cih/
Office
of Immigrationa and Refugee Affairs (OIRA). Contains information
on refugee health and resettlement. This page is sponsored
by the Texas Department of Health. Retrieved September 14,
2004, from http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/programs/refugee/index.html
Queensland
Health. Multicultural health internet links. Retrieved
on September 14, 2004, from http://www.health.qld.gov.au./multicultural/default.asp
Queensland Program of Assistance
to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT). Retrieved
September 14, 2004, from http://qpastt.org.au/
Refugee
Health ~ Immigrant Health. Cross-cultural resources for
health and prevention and includes cultural profiles of many
groups. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from
http://www3.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/refugees.htm
The Research Resource
Division for Refugees (RRDR).Select links on refugees.
http://www.carleton.ca/rrdr
Sexuality
Information and Education Council of the United Stated (SIECUS).
Annotated Bibliography: Culturally competent sexuality education
resources. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from
http://www.siecus.org/pubs/biblio/bibs0003.html
Transcultural Nursing Society.
About the society, its purposes, and how to join. Retrieved
September 14, 2004, from http://www.tcns.org/
Transcultural
C.A.R.E. References and websites on transcultural healthcare.
Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://www.transculturalcare.net
Transcultural
and Multicultural Health Links- New Mexico State University
Library. This site is a must for health profiles of various
groups. Retrieved September 14, 2004, from http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/trannurs/index.shtml
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