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General

Culture–Bound Syndromes, in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed.). (2000). Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Association.

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. (2007). Resource Guide for Serving Refugees with Disabilities

The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture

Spanish for the Physical Therapist

Pediatrics

Kalyanpur, M. (1999). Special education epistemology as a product of western culture: implications for non-western families of children with disabilities. International Journal of Rehabilitation Research 22: 111–118.

Bracht, M., Kandankery, A., Nodwell, S. and Stade, B. (2002). Cultural differences and parental responses to the preterm infants at risk: strategies for supporting families. Neonatal Network, 21, 6: 31–38.

Fazel, M. and A. Stein. 2002. "The Mental Health of Refugee Children." Archives of Disease in Childhood, 87:366–370.

Geriatrics

Wilson, S.H. & Dorne, R. (2005). Impact of culture on the education of the geriatric patient. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation, 21 (4), 282–294.

Teaching Resources

Interpreters, from

• Ackerman, S., Welch, M., Mutha, S., & Tresolini, C. (2000). Culture and communication in health care. San Francisco: UCSF Center for the Health Professions and the University of North Carolina.
• Welch, M. (1998). Enhancing awareness and improving cultural competence in health care. A partnership guide for teaching diversity and cross-cultural concepts in heath professional training. San Francisco: University of California at San Francisco.

The L.E.A.R.N. and R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Models of Cross–Cultural Communication, from

• Berlin, E. & Fowkes, W.A.(1983). A teaching framework for cross-cultural health care. Western Journal of Medicine, 139:934–938
• Welch, M. (1998). Enhancing awareness and improving cultural competence in health care. A partnership guide for teaching diversity and cross-cultural concepts in heath professional training. San Francisco: University of California at San Francisco.

References

• Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity

  The Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity (CHFCD) was established in the 1997-98 academic year, and is dedicated to leadership, advocacy, and excellence in promoting culturally-responsive, quality health care for diverse populations.

• Diversity in Medicine

  Medical schools must begin to address cultural diversity and physician bias if our nation strives to eliminate health disparities. AMSA is piloting cultural competency curricula at Wake Forest University, Medical University of South Carolina, and University of Kansas through our PRIME (Promoting, Reinforcing and Improving Medical Education) project.

• The Cultural Profiles Project

  Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides Host Program funding to non profit organizations to recruit Canadian volunteer hosts and match them with new immigrants to Canada. The purpose of the match is to assist the newcomer to adapt quickly to life in Canada as well as provide the host with an appreciation of the challenges that the newcomer faces.

• Ethnic American - A Health Care Provider's Primer

• Ethnomed

  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.

• National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health Care Office of Minority Health Resource Center

  This project makes recommendations for national standards for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health care.

• The Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture

  Providers may order fewer diagnostic tests for patients of different cultural backgrounds because they may not understand or believe the patient's description of symptoms. Alternatively, providers may order more diagnostic tests to compensate for not understanding what their patients are saying.

• Refugee Health - Immigrant Health

• Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care

  Discover how language and culture affect the delivery of quality services to ethnically diverse populations.

• Spiral - Selected Patient Information in Asian Languages

  SPIRAL provides access to consumer health information in the following Asian languages: Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai, and Vietnamese. It alsso contains links to a variety of Asian and Pacific Islander health resources.