More
resources on Cultural Competency in the Health System
(also look at
our site on Cultural Competency at the Workplace)
- Access to Health care for Language Minorities
- the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bar-Ilan
University (Israel). It also includes presentations from the
conference "Mind the Language Gap: May 23-24 2006".
- Culturally Appropriate Health Care by
Culturally Competent
Health Professionals - workshop program and presentations.
This workshop was held on October 9-10, 2007 at
Caesarea, Israel. It was organized by the Israel
National
Institute for Health Policy and Health Services Research (NIHP).
- The US Office of Minority Health - Cultural
Competency Site. Including the CLAS standard, a Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing
Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations and many
more resources.
- Think Cultural Health (including full
Cultural Competency trainings for physicians, nurses and interpreters
in the US) .
- Medical Leadership Council on Cultural
Proficiency (including many educational tools on Cultural Competency)
.
- Underserved Quality Improvement Organization
Support Center (UQIOSC), including
Cultural Competency materials.
- University of Michigan Health System - The
Cultural Competency Division, including
comprehensive Cultural Competency tools and resources.
- The
Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically
Appropriate Services.
- Ethnologue language reports -
specifically, the languages of Israel, Palestinian West Bank and Gaza, the United States and Canada.
- National Center for Cultural Competence,
Georgetown University -
specifically, see Conceptual Frameworks / Models, Guiding
Values and Principles, Cultural Competence Health Practitioner
Assessment (CCHPA), and other resources and tools.
- Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and
Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) of
the National Academies -
publication site and resources.
- Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health
System for the 21st Century, the Institute of Medicine
(IOM) of
the National Academies -
publication site and resources.
- KFF “Why the
difference?” Journal and Web Campaign,
including additional resources.
- Standards for Health Promoting Hospitals
- World health Organization Europe.
- Migrant-Friendly
Hospitals
(Europe).
- European Recommendations: The Amsterdam
Declaration Towards Migrant Friendly Hospitals in an ethno-culturally
diverse Europe.
- Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging
Frameworks and Practical Approaches: Final Report - Authors:
JR Betancourt, AR Green, JE Carrillo, October 2002.
- Report: Setting the Agenda for Research on
Cultural Competence in Health Care (2004).
- Eliminating health disparities -
AMA.
- Indicators of Cultural Competence in Health
Care Delivery Organizations: An Organizational Cultural Competence
Assessment Profile.
- The Joint Commission:
- Improving Cultural Competency in
Children’s Health Care - National
Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ).
- A State Policy Agenda to Eliminate Racial
and Ethnic Health Disparities - JE McDonough, BK Gibbs, JL
Scott-Harris, K Kronebusch, AM Navarro, and K Taylor, The Commonwealth
Fund, June 2004.
- Boston Public health Commission - reports and presentations,
including Hospital Working Group Report and online toolkit.
- Canadian Health Network - Search Results
for: Cultural competence .
- Australia - Cultural Competency in health: A
guide for policy, partnerships and participation .
- Australia - Collection of Cultural
Competency resources .
- Diversity Rx .
- Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Language
Data: A How-To Guide .
- Limited
English Proficiency - US federal site .
- CLAS Act Virginia, including many
resources and guides on cultural competency and language
.
- MLA Language Map Data Center (US) .
- The Language Portal of the Migration Policy
Institute, with a database of relevant resources .
- Health Information Translations
including Hospital Signage Documents
.
- Consumer Health Information in Many Languages Resources
.
If you want to suggest
more resources to be added to this list - email
hagai@JICC.ORG.IL
.