CLAS-ACT - Resources
The online resources listed below are selected and are not intended to be comprehensive:
A Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations
This guide is intended to help healthcare organizations implement effective language access services to meet the needs of their limited-English-proficient patients, and increase their access to health care. An interactive Web-based version of the Guide is now available to help you plan, implement, and evaluate language access services.
https://hclsig.thinkculturalhealth.org/user/home.rails
A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
This cultural competency curriculum offers information about a variety of cultural, language services and organizational issues using a variety of engaging case studies and real feedback from providers in health care settings. This program equips physicians with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve and earn CME, CNE and CEU credit.
https://cccm.thinkculturalhealth.org/
CDC National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Cornerstone of Caring
This is a free online educational program designed specifically for nurses and is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The course features video-based case studies and interactive tools that can be completed anytime and anywhere to accommodate busy nurses.
http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/ccnm/
MapStats -- Profiles with data from many Federal sources for your state and county
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/
OMH Introduces Language Services Guide for Healthcare Organizations
A Patient-Centered Guide to Implementing Language Access Services in Healthcare Organizations is now available from OMH. The guide is intended to help healthcare organizations implement effective language access services to meet the needs of their limited-English-proficient patients, and increase their access to health care.
http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/content.aspxID=4375&lvl=2&lvlID=107
State & County QuickFacts -- Quick, easy access to Census facts about people, business, and geography
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html
State Health Departments
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/international/relres.html
State and Metropolitan Area Data Book -- Comprehensive data for states and metropolitan areas
http://www.census.gov/compendia/smadb/
Statistical Abstract of the United States --The National Data Book
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
US Census Bureau County and City Data Book - 2007
The County and City Data Book is the most comprehensive source of information about the individual counties and cities in the United States. It includes data for all U.S. states, counties, and cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It contains additional data for places with a population of 100,000 or more. Also included is a complete set of state maps showing all counties, places of 25,000 or more population, and metropolitan areas. Information in the County and City Data Book includes, among other data, age, deaths, education, health, income, population, poverty, race and Hispanic origin, and social services.
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html
USA Counties --Almost 6,000 data items for all counties
http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml