CULTURAL DIVERSITY: A GUIDE TO INFORMATION RESOURCES

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PERIODICAL INDEXES/DATABASES

CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health)

Index to over 1500 nursing and health publications

 

MEDLINE

International index to journals in medicine

 

Electronic Journals Center

Full-text indexing service for over 2000 online scholarly and research journals including titles in health-related fields

 

Social Sciences Citation Index

Citations and cited references from over 1700 journals in the social sciences

 

Health Source (Academic)

Provides access to nearly 590 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for over 627 journals

 

Alt-Health Watch

Full text articles from 170+ peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, association & consumer newsletters on complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care

 

Academic Search Complete

Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering a wide variety of academic areas of study

 

Periodicals available in the KC library

International Journal for Human Caring

Journal of Cultural Diversity

The Journal of Multicultural Nursing & Health (1998-2007)

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

 

Periodicals available through the Electronic Journal Center

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

INTERNET RESOURCES ON THIS TOPIC
Below are some related sites on the World Wide Web:

Catholic Health East: Ethics Tools

http://www.che.org/ethics/
Provides access to a variety of tools on ethical decision making in health care; includes access to Religious Traditions and Healthcare

 

CulturedMed

http://culturedmed.binghamton.edu/
A web site and a resource center of print materials promoting culturally-competent health care for refugees and immigrants

 

Ethnicity Online

http://www.ethnicityonline.net/
This online resource is intended to help broaden awareness of the needs of ethnic groups using healthcare services – as well as the needs of healthcare staff from ethnic minorities

 

Office of Minority Health

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/
The Office of Minority Health is charged with protecting the health and well being of minorities in the United States.

 

Delivering Culturally Effective Healthcare to Adolescents

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/39/culturallyeffective.pdf
AMA report on delivery of healthcare to adolescents within the context of respectful understanding and appreciation of cultural distinctions

 

EthnoMed

http://ethnomed.org/
"The EthnoMed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world."

 

University of Kansas School of Medicine Office of Cultural Enhancement and Diversity

http://www2.kumc.edu/oced/links2.html
Links Related to Diversity in Health Care / Medical Education

 

Kaiser Family Foundation: Minority Health

http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm
Resources on disparities in health care from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

 

The Cross Cultural Health Care Program

http://www.xculture.org/
CCHCP serves as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate. Their web site provides access to a variety of resources.

 

Bioethics Resources on the Web: Culture and Ethnicity in Medicine

http://www.nih.gov/sigs/bioethics/culturalcomp.html
Selected links on cultural diversity and ethnicity in medicine from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

 

Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links

http://web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/trannurs/index.shtml
A collection of web sites maintained by Ellen Bosman, a librarian at New Mexico State University, brings together a large collection of multicultural health resources.

 

Country Studies

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

 

Country Profiles

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/profiles.html
The Country Profiles Series offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.

 

World Fact Books

http://www.theodora.com/wfb/
Facts on individual counties of the world drawn from the CIA World Factbooks and other sources

 

World Health Organization: Countries

http://www.who.int/countries/en/
Health information on individual countries that are members of the World Health Organization

 

Cultural Diversity Resources

http://www.aarc.org/resources/cultural_diversity/tools.cfm
This site from AARC provides links to a varitey of cultural diversity resources for health care providers.