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- ONLINE
RESOURCES
- CULTURAL
DIVERSITY
- Culturally
Competent Services Bibliography
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown
University. Contains an annotated bibliography that focuses on assessing
current services for cultural sensitivity, developing culturally
competent services and providing services in a multicultural health
care context.
http://www.mchlibrary.info/databases/bibmenu.html
- National
Center for Cultural Competence
The National Center for Cultural Competence is a division of the George
Washington University Child Development Center and Center for Child
Health and Maternal Health Policy in the Department of Pediatrics.
The mission of the Center is to improve the capacity of health care
programs, and to develop, implement and evaluate cultural competence
in health care delivery systems. An online newsletter provides information
related to developing cultural competent programs and policies.
http://www.georgetown.edu
The
National Center for Cultural Competence also has a cultural competent
checklist for personnel providing services and supports to children
with special health needs and their families which can be utilized
by personnel in any organization for self assessment.
http://www.dml.georgetown.edu/depts/pediatrics/gucdc/nccc7.html
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Initiative
to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health
This website is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and describes the Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic
Disparities in Health. Areas targeted include infant mortality,
cancer screening and management, cardiovascular disease, diabetes,
HIV/AIDS, and immunizations.
http://www.raceandhealth.hhs.gov
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Office
of Minority Health
The mission of the Office of Minority Health continues to be to
stimulate action at all levels to enhance program outcomes which
can lead to the elimination of health disparities. As a follow up,
it will continue to post educational and informational materials
from the Summit including the full text of the Community Resources
Toolkit, speaker contact information, a special issue of Closing
the Gap covering Summit highlights, and more.
http://www.omhrc.gov/summit/summitoolkit.pdf
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The
Diversity Rx Web Site
Promotes language and cultural competence to improve the quality
of health care for minority, immigrant, and ethnically diverse communities,
sponsored by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Resources
for Cross Cultural Health Care, and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
http://www.diversityrx.org
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Minority
Health Project
This project is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill School of Public Health in collaboration with the National
Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control
and the Association of Schools of Public Health.
http://www.minority.unc.edu
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Texas-Mexico
Border Health Services Delivery Project
Office of Community Outreach & Education
University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center
This office assists medically underserved communities along the
Texas-Mexico Border and in Greater Houston. The office manages the
Texas-Mexico Border Health Projects, works in institutional-community
collaborative educational efforts, and serves as a liaison between
the University of Texas (UT)-Houston, UT System Administration,
and persons and agencies with a community health and primary health
care education focus.
http://www.uth.tmc.edu/coe/comouted.htm
- DIABETES
- National
Institute for Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This
office conducts and supports basic and clinical biomedical research
related to diabetes, digestive, and kidney diseases. The website
provides health information, research funding opportunities, clinical
trials, and information about the NIDDK Laboratories, as well
as NIDDK reports, testimony, and plans for the future. The link
below takes you to a recent news release about the latest NIDDK
findings related to diabetes. The home page of the NIDDK can be
easily accessed from this link.
Diet
and exercise dramatically delay Type 2 diabetes: Diabetes medication
Metformin also effective
- DISABILITIES
- Center
for Research on Women with Disabilities (CROWD)
This Center is dedicated to conducting and disseminating information
to expand the life choices of women with disabilities. Has database
on psychosocial behaviors of women with physical disabilities compared
to women without disabilities, which is the first empirical data
on a population of women with physical disabilities ages 18 through
35. Sponsored by Baylor College of Medicine’s Center for Research
on Women with Disabilities, Houston, TX.
http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/crowd
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Chronic
Net
The national information and referral center for children and
youth with disabilities from birth to 22 years of age. Provides
information on disease related issues for professionals, educators
and families of children and youth with disabilities. Includes
data at the national, state and local level, a rolodex of experts
and statistics related to chronic diseases in this age group.
http://www.chronicnet.org
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Health
Promotion for Women with Disabilities Project
Provides health related information for women with disabilities
regardless of the cause for promoting health and improving quality
of life. Sponsored by the College of Nursing of Villanova University
with a grant from Bristol-Myers Squibb.
http://www.nursing.villanova.edu/womenwithdisabilities/welcome.htm
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