August 2000 • Volume 6 • Number 8
Read up on cultural awareness
Online resources
- "Recommended Core Curriculum Guidelines on Culturally Sensitive and Competent Health Care," Society of Teachers of Family Medicine at http://www.stfm.org/corep.html
- Office of Minority Health Resource Center at http://www.omhrc.gov/
- Cross Cultural Health Care Program at http://www.xculture.org; offers ethnic community health profiles for a small fee
- CultureGrams, briefs on 173 countries of the world for a fee at http://www.culturegrams.com
Books
- Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide by Lee Gardenswartz and Anita Rowe; McGraw-Hill; 1998.
- Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions by Rena Gropper; Intercultural Press; 1996.
- Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients: A Practical Guide by Freddy Paniagua; Sage; 1998.
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