COUNTRY AND CULTURAL PROFILES
PATIENT EDUCATION MATERIALS IN OTHER LANGUAGES
EASY TO READ MATERIALS
CROSS-CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE
  • Andrews, D. J. (1995). Cultural Religious Ethnic Reference Manual for Health Care Providers. Winston-Salem, NC: JAMARDA Resources.
  • Andrulis, D.P., & Brach, C. (2007). “Integrating literacy, culture, and language to improve health care quality for diverse populations.” American Journal of Health Behavior 31(Suppl 1), pp. S122-S133.
    http://www.atypon-link.com....
  • Bigby, J. E. (2003). Cross-Cultural Medicine. American College of Physicians.
  • Culture Clues™ from the University of Washington Cultural Communication Guide.
  • D'Avanzo, C. E., & Geissler, E. M. (2003). Pocket Guide to Cultural Health Assessment (3rd ed.). St. Louis: Mosby. 
  • Galanti, G. A. (2004). Caring for Patients from Different Cultures. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia: 2004.
  • Gropper, R. C. (1996). Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press.
  • Kemp, C., & Rasbridge, L. (2004). Refugee and Immigrant Health. Cambridge: University Press. 
  • Lipson, J. G., & Dibble, S. L. (2005). Culture & Clinical Care. UCSF Nursing Press.
  • Moazam, F. (2007). Medical Center Hour: Cross-cultural Competence in Clinical Care [Podcast].
    http://www.virginia.edu/uvapodcast...
  • Nazroo, J. Y. (2006). Health & Social Research in Multiethnic Societies. Routledge.
  • Perez, M.G. & Luquis, R.R., eds. (2008). Cultural Competence in Health Education and Health Promotion. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Purnell, L.D. & Paulanka, B.J.  (2005). Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care.
    Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company.
  • Spector, R. E. (2003). Cultural Diversity in Health and Illness, Sixth Edition. Prentice Hall.
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health (2001). National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care: Final Report. Rockville, MD: IQ Solutions, Inc. http://www.omhrc.gov/assets/pdf/checked/finalreport.pdf
  • Vacc, N. A. E. (2003). Counseling Multicultural and Diverse Populations. Brunner-Routledge / Taylor & Francis.
  • Yehieli, M., & Grey, M. A. (2005.) Health Matters: A Pocket Guide for Working with Diverse Cultures and Underserved Populations. Boston, MA: Intercultural Press. 
RECOMMENDED READING IN CULTURE AND ETHICS
  • Beah, I. (2007). A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
  • Danticat, E. (1998). Breath, Eyes, Memory. Vintage.
  • Danticat, E. (1999). The Farming of Bones. Penguin (Non-Classics).
  • Fadiman, A. (1998). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures. Farrar Straus & Giroux.
  • Fournier, M. A. M., & Herlihy, W. D. (2006). Zombie Curse: A Doctor's 25-year Journey into the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic in Haiti. Joseph Henry Press.
  • Hosseini, K. (2004). The Kite Runner. Riverhead Trade.
  • Hosseini, K. (2007). A Thousand Splendid Suns. Riverhead Hardcover.
  • Moazam, F. (2006). Bioethics And Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography, And Religion. Indiana University Press.
  • Tervalon M & Murray-Garcia, J. (1998). “Cultural humility versus cultural competence: A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education.” Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 9, 117-125.
  • Verghese, A. (1994). My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids. Simon & Schuster.