Diversity, Cultural Competence, and Health Disparities: Web Resources

Includes links to publications, webcasts, a Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TAACT) and other diversity resources especially as they relate to physician education.

Includes overviews and research results.

Information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other topics related to the health care of immigrants to the US, many of whom are refugees.
EthnoMed is a joint program of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries and Harborview Medical Center’s Interpreter Services Department (ISD).
Information is specific to groups in the Seattle area, but much of the cultural and health information is of interest and applicable in other geographic areas.

Includes links to information on health disparities, statistics and government resources for population groups (Asian American, African American, Hispanic and Native Hawaiian & other Pacific Islanders).

From the National Library of Medicine, consumer health information topics by population group and links to content on health disparities.

Promotes minority health and leads NIH efforts to reduce and eliminate health disparities.