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 Thank you for visiting the Color of Health website. We have created this area to help you better assist your clients, and to provide available resources to you as you help your clients make health care decisions. Being a culturally competent provider means continually educating yourself about issues affecting diverse communities.
Patient Education | Cultural Awareness | LGBT | Medical Dictionary | Cancer | Nutrition | Statistics
Patient Education
- Healthfinder
From the Department of Health and Human Services. Topics such as prevention & wellness, diseases & conditions, and alternative medicines are provided. Additional resources include medical dictionaries, an encyclopedia, journal access, and more.Special health topics are organized by age from kids to seniors as well as by race and ethnicity. Information about doctors, dentists, public clinics, hospitals, long term care, nursing homes, health insurance, prescriptions, health fraud, Medicare, Medicaid, and medical privacy are also included. Healthfinder resources are also available in Spanish at http://www.healthfinder.gov/espanol.
- Ethnomed - numerous patient education materials available in a variety of different languages
- Asian Language pamphlets on Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Health Translations Directory - This directory links to online multilingual health resources from government departments, peak health bodies, hospitals, community health centres and welfare agencies. Health practitioners who work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities can use this directory to find reliable translated health information. Search by topic, by language, or both. Your search results will include an English summary of the information, a link to a complete English language version and a link to information in the language you requested.
- National Network for Immunization Information (NNii) has a free comprehensive immunization kit to help healthcare providers discuss immunization with their patients. The kit provides accessible information on everything from immunization recommendations to common questions and concerns. All materials are the product of extensive research with parents, physicians, nurses, immunization experts, and risk communication specialists.The kit is available in the Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Download (PDF, 3975K)
- Spanish Language Patient Education Materials
This site, a collaboration between the U. of Utah Health Science Center and the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, provides patient education materials on various topics in Spanish.
- Centers for Disease Control
Selected patient education materials from the CDC are also available in Spanish at www.cdc.gov/spanish .Website information is translated so that Spanish speaking users can navigate the resources provided here. Topics include allergies, tobacco, illness, immunizations, mental health, dental topics and more.
- USCRI Healthy Living Toolkit
Designed to educate refugees and immigrants to become proactive health consumers and promoters in their communities. The Toolkit supports health professionals, health promoters, ESL teachers, resettlement case managers in assisting refugees and immigrants to navigate the health system in order to reduce the health disparities among these populations. The toolkit has been developed in a culturally appropriate manner. Topics include communicable diseases, domestic violence, basic hygiene, maternal and child health, nutrition related diseases, respiratory diseases, women's health
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Cultural and Ethnicity Awareness/Competency
- The Provider's Guide to Quality & Culture
This website is designed for clinicians to help them provide culturally competent healthcare. It contains a Quality & Culture Quiz, as well as information on several ethnic groups, along with links and other resources. - Ethnicity Online - an extensive website developed to ddress the need for a better understanding of ethnic differences in healthcare. Great resource.
- The Ethnic Group section contains links to information about several ethnic / religious groups, including summaries of their beliefs and customs, along with healthcare-related advice.
- Video interviews with a patient and healthcare workers from different ethnic backgrounds
- Guidelines on working with translators and interpreters
- Good Practice Guidelines:
- Program for Multicultural Health
University of Michigan Health System's comprehensive website contains generalizations on 25 ethnic and religious groups, along with numerous tools and resources for providing culturally competent care. - Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers
The US Department of Health Resources and Services Administration site contains links to websites and articles that can be used by health care providers. It includes information on assessment tools, culture and language specific groups, and specific diseases/conditions associated with various ethnic groups, as well as information on training curricula. - Cultural Competency in Medicine
A teaching module produced by the American Medical Student Association, designed to help medical students become culturally competent. Suggests activities, provides brief case studies for individual or group learning experiences, definitions, criteria for culturally competent care, questions for physicians and patients, suggestions for using interpreters, and list of references. - Culture Clues
Tip sheets for physicians on a variety of different ethnic groups served by the University of Washington Medical Center. Includes separate sheets on End-of-Life for Latinos, Russians, and Vietnamese. - Diversity Resources
Contains numerous documents related to diversity, including demographic data on a variety of groups, tips for dealing with diversity, and detailed guides to providing culturally sensitive health care to a variety of ethnic groups, from Suzanne Salimbene's "What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In?: A Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care." - EthnoMed Home Page
Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
- Medical Anthropology
An online tutorial on how illness is traditionally perceived and cured around the world. It was created and is maintained by Dr. Dennis O'Neil, Behavioral Sciences Department, Palomar College, San Marcos, California. - FamilyDoctor.org
Contains patient information and other materials in Spanish from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Click Spanish/Espanol for patient handouts on specific health problems. - Medical Economics website - articles on Cultural Competence
From Medical Economics, this website has links to several articles regarding caring for patients from various ethnic groups, including
- Muslims
- Blacks
- Refugees
- Asians
- Latinos
- Hispanic patients
- Latino Culture Clues Fact Sheet
From Washington University Medical Center, this fact sheet includes helpful information for medical professionals to consider when working with Latino patients. The information sheet highlights some of the major cultural differences that can cause communication barriers including body language, sensitive health topics and family issues.
- Learn about Hispanic US Cultural Views on Health Issues
Part of The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Pew Hispanic Center provides resources that improve the understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population. Health resources include links to information about current trends in Hispanic health as well as some information about cultural views on health issues. - Hispanic American Health Beliefs and Practices
From Charles Kemp, a specialist in refugee and immigrant health at Baylor University, this site is a well documented resource for topics relating to Hispanic health beliefs and practices. Cultural information on communication, social relations, social problems and risk topics for immigrants is included. Citations and external links provide resources for further research.
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered People
- Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in Counseling (ALGBTIC) provides a comprehensive bibliography of basic resources for counselors working with LGBT Clients - in part 1 and part 2, as well as other topics specific to the needs of the LGBTs.
- National Lesbian Health Organization - Mautner Project
- Best practice guidance on health care for lesbian, gay and bisexual service users and their families - Royal College of Nursing
- A Provider’s Introduction to Substance Abuse Treatment for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals (2001), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment/Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, DHHS, 192 pages. Printed copies may be ordered as Inventory Number BKD392 from the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI), toll-free, 1-800-729-6686, or from info@health.org. Download, print, or view a copy with Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF File, 590KB). You can also download the Curriculum Guide.
- Gay & Lesbian Medical Association
- Provider Guidelines for Creating a Welcoming Environment
- Healthy People 2010 Companion Document - presents 120 lgbt-specific objectives, including sections on tobacco (PDF File, 255KB) and on substance abuse (PDF File, 232KB). This landmark project of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA) involved several NALGAP members and other lgbt health professionals and advocates.
- PUBLICATIONS
- Finnegan, Dana G. & McNally, Emily B. (2002). Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Substance Abusers: Dual Identities. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Inc.
- The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health - Written by leading clinicians in the field of LGBT health, and designed to address the needs of diverse clinicians, this book provides medical professionals with guidance, practical guidelines, and discussions of clinical issues relevant to the LGBT population. Areas of Interest include: Health promotion and disease prevention for LGBT patients, Unique clinical issues faced by LGBT populations, Mental health issues faced by LGBT individuals, the basics of transgender and intersex health, parenting and raising families, demographic and epidemiologic information, and legal issues of concern.
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Medical Dictionary
- Medical Spanish
An easy to follow guide of common phrases and useful vocabulary for communicating general health issues with Spanish speaking patients. From Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. English with Spanish translations.
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MEDLINEplus: Hispanic American Health
From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, this has links to information on diseases, conditions, and wellness issues related to Hispanic Americans.Many of the resources available from MEDLINEplus are also available in Spanish at http://medlineplus.gov/esp/.Users can also select the “español” link for translated pages.
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Cancer
- Cancer Survivorship - EthnoMed explaining why people can live long after developing cancer. Each document contains the target language and English in a 1 page PDF. Funding Provided by the Lance Armstrong Foundation. You can view and print this “Cancer Survivorship” statement in the following languages.
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Nutrition
- CDC's Fruit and Vegetable Webpage learn more about the National Fruit & Vegetable Program and help you encourage others to eat a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables.
- In the Research section you will find fruit and vegetable consumption surveillance data, and information on various fruit and vegetable programs.
- In the Resources & Tools section you will find many valuable Internet and legislative resources.
- Learn more about the National Fruit & Vegetable Program in the About the National Fruit & Vegetable Program section.
- Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators should check out the For Coordinators sections for contact information, calendars, and various resources.
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Statistics
- American FactFinder
The American FactFinder service provides more in-depth data on states, counties, cities and towns. Data from this site can be transformed into tables, charts, graphs and maps. Geographic comparison tables can also be created through the American FactFinder site.
- Health of Hispanic/Latino Population
From the Centers for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics, this site provides users with statistical information on the health of the Hispanic/Latino population in the United States taken from CDC reports.
- The Office of Minority Health - Latino/Hispanic Profile
From the Department of Health and Human Services, this site offers healthcare providers a resource for special issues relating to Latino health. Statistical data on health and social issues in the Latino population as well as links to more detailed data sites are included.
- US Census Bureau - Facts on the Latino or Hispanic Population
This site provides a collection of links to statistical data relating to various facets of the Latino or Hispanic community. Links to reports and data are updated and provide access to the latest government statistics on the Latino or Hispanic community. Links to more data on special topics such as age, children, income, employment and education are included. This is a first rate site with up to date links and information.
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