General Information on Cultural Competence

A Family Physician’s Guide to Culturally Competent Health by Robert Like.
http://cccm.thinkculturalhealth.org/ 

Ethnomed – developed by University of Washington Harborview Medical Center
http://ethnomed.org/ 

Health Disparities: Toward a Better Understanding of Primary Care Patient-Physician Relationships
Lisa A. Cooper MD, MPH. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19(9):985-986. September 2004
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.46002.x/full/?cookieSet=1 

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Patient Reports of Disrespect in the Health Care Setting and Its Impact on Care
http://www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=240955 

Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Smedley, Brian D., Stith, Adrienne Y., Nelson, Alan R. (Eds.). Washington, D. C. : Institute of Medicine/National Academies Press.
http://www.iom.edu/report.asp?id=4475 

Working With Low Literacy Patients

Culture, Health and Literacy: A Guide to Health Education Materials for Adults with Limited English Literacy Skills. By Julie McKinney and Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi (2000).
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/culture/

Working With Interpreters

National Council on Interpreting in Health Care with the Commonwealth Fund. http://www.ncihc.org/NCIHC_PDF/National_Standards_of_Practice_for_Interpreters_in_Health_Care.pdf

Working With Specific Populations

A Provider’s Guide to Quality and Culture – developed by the Management Sciences.
http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English  

Intercultural Cancer Council
http://iccnetwork.org  

Las Culturas.com - Cultural Competence
http://www.lasculturas.com/lib/libCulturalCompetance.htm 

Redes En Acción: The National Hispanic/Latino Cancer Network
http://redesenaccion.org/ 

Salud En Acción: National Health Communication Research
http://saludenaccion.org

Centers and Offices

Bureau of Primary Health Care-Quality and Culture
http://bphc.hrsa.gov/quality/Cultural.htm 

Center for Cross-Cultural Health
http://www.crosshealth.com
http://www.crosshealth.com/links.htm  

Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice - Cultural Competence Page
http://www.air.org/cecp/cultural/ 

Center for Equity and Diversity
American Dental Education Association
http://www.adea.org/ced/default.htm 

Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities
http://crchd.nci.nih.gov/ 

Health Resources Services Administration (HRSA) Office of Minority Health
http://www.hrsa.gov/OMH/ 

National Center for Cultural Competence
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/nccc/ 

University of Maryland School of Medicine
Center for Health Disparities
http://medschool.umaryland.edu/disparities/ 

University of Texas MD Anderson Center for Research on Minority Health
http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/CRMH/ 

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