Multicultural Health
Curator
Logistical Support
Katie Stinson
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Welcome!
"Multicultural Health is a term used to reflect the need to provide health care services in a sensitive, knowledgeable, and nonjudgmental manner with respect for people’s health beliefs and practices when they are different from your own. It entails challenging your own assumptions, asking the right questions and working with the patient and/or community in a manner that takes into consideration their lifestyle and approach to maintain health and treating illness. Multicultural health integrates different approaches to care and incorporates the culture and belief system of the healthcare recipient while providing care within the legal, ethical, and medically sound practices of the practitioner’s medical system" (Ritter and Hoffman, 2010).
Health care practitioners should refer to their departments for practice guidance on multicultural health and related subjects.
References
Ritter, L.A. & Hoffman, N.A. (2010) Multicultural Health. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
Resources
- Alt-Press WatchNational web-based patient safety literature, news, tools, and meetings.
- EmbaseBiomedical and pharmacological abstracting and indexing database of published literature that contains over 32 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals (1947-present) and is noteworthy for its extensive coverage of the international pharmaceutical and alternative/complementary medicine literature.
- GenderWatchInformation on gender and women's studies and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) research perspectives from 1970 to the present.
- LGBTQ+ Source
The definitive database for LGBT studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBT publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBT thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
- LGBT Thought and CultureOnline resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day.
- Native Health DatabaseBibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
- PubMed
Provides fulltext access to Lane's resources. Contains coverage of over 5000 journals and more than 35.5 million citations for biomedical articles, including, but not limited to, clinical trials, systematic reviews, case reports, and clinical practice guidelines.
- ScopusLargest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature featuring scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
- Social ExplorerVisually analyze and understand the demography of the U.S. through the use of interactive maps and data reports, including Demographic Data Analysis, Interactive Map/Report Design, and Software Development.
- California State Law - Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services ActOutline of the law, including vote information, history of the law, bill analysis, the amended version, the ability to compare versions, the status of the bill, and comments to the author.
- Executive Order 13166Overview of the order, "Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency".
- Federal Civil Rights ActOutline of the Equal Rights Under the Law act.
- Santa Clara County Office of Education Translation ConsortiumCollection of resources for translators, including associations, dictionaries, glossaries, applications, software, and more.
- Healthwise
Patient education documentation for various conditions and life stages. Wellness and prevention information is also available.
- MedlinePlusRepository of health information from the National Library of Medicine. Offers information on health conditions, medical tests, medications, dietary supplements, and healthy recipres, sourced from more than 1600 selected organizations. Aimed at the general public and early learners in healthcare education,
Adapting Tests in Linguistic and Cultural Situations by Publication Date: 2017This book explores test adaptation, a scientific and professional activity now spanning all of the social and behavioral sciences.
- Addressing Language Access Issues in Your PracticePDF of a toolkit for physicians and their staff members. Provides an overview of identifying your patient population, resources to address language access, and how to use the right mix of services for your practice and patients.
- English-Multilingual DictionaryA multilingual dictionary that provides immediate back-translations, helping you increase your understanding at the same time as providing the answer to your question.
- English-Spanish Medical DictionaryMedical dictionary provided by AccessMedicine.
- LPCH Interpreter ServicesOverview of what interpreter services are provided by Stanford Children's Health.
- Plainlanguage.govAn overview of the Plain Writing Act, which requires that federal agencies use clear government communication that the public can understand and use.
- SHC Interpreter ServicesOverview of what interpreter services are provided by Stanford Health Care.
Transparent Communication of Health Risks by Publication Date: 2013Describes a series of cross-cultural studies investigating how people in countries with different medical and educational systems understand numerical and graphical information, what they know about existing medical treatments and screenings, which presentation formats help them better understand the relevant information, and how they use the data to make medical decisions.
- Health Resources & Services Administration - Culture, Language and Health LiteracyInformation about cultural and linguistic competence, HIV/AIDS, and maternal & child health from an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- US Department of Health and Human Services - Office of Minority HealthResources dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will help eliminate health disparities.
- Leadership in Health Disparities Program (LHDP) - Center of Excellence in Diversity in Medical EducationLHDP is available to all matriculating Stanford medical students. It includes a summer early matriculation component directed at initiating a successful medical and leadership career, and a two-year leadership seminar series during the school year focused on increasing students’ knowledge of health inequities, the roles of physician leaders, and their leadership challenges. We encourage students interested in careers addressing health inequities to consider this program.
- Stanford Center on Poverty & Inequality - Health Disparities GroupThe group is using new computer modeling and statistical techniques to examine how poverty affects the health of children and adults and how some anti-poverty programs are reducing those effects
- Stanford Medicine - eCampus Rural HealthAn innovative, comprehensive, and state-of-the-art program designed to provide outreach and services to our most vulnerable and underserved veterans, including rural and homeless veterans.
- Stanford Medicine - LGBTQ Medical Education Research GroupSignificant contributor to the field of LGBT health by creating and communicating new knowledge through innovative research, by influencing health and educational policies, and by advocating for LGBT patients and providers.
- Stanford Precision Health for Ethnic & Racial Equity (SPHERE)One of five national centers funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to focus on using precision-medicine tools to improve the health of underserved ethnic and racial groups.
- Successful Aging Mini-fellowship (iSAGE)A project aimed at improving quality of life and quality of care for all older Americans from diverse backgrounds. It offers a an entirely web-based, video rich immersion training in the principles of successful aging for the general public as well as health workers.
Stanford Student Affairs
- Asian American Activities CenterA department under the Vice Provost of Student Affairs and serves as Stanford’s primary resource for Asian and Asian American student affairs and community development. Through programming and advising, the center facilitates the multicultural education of all students and the development of leaders who are able to negotiate an increasingly diverse and complex workplace and global environment.
- Black Community Services CenterFocuses on the holistic development of our students, all of which aligns with our five pillars that include the following: academic / intellectual, alumni engagement, community building, leadership development, and mental health and well-being.
- El Centro Chicano y LatinoPrograms provide Stanford students the opportunity to explore Chicano and Latino culture, history and traditions, and to use that understanding to work with other ethnic communities in the United States and around the world.
- The Markaz Resource CenterThe center is unique in its cultural focus and goal of serving all students interested in Africa, the Middle East, and central, south and southeast Asia, as well as the American Muslim experience.
- Native American Cultural CenterStudents explore different interests, become involved in a range of activities and participate in the community in many important ways. In our diversity we find strength as each individual brings a new gift, talent or perspective to the group. Though we may be very different in terms of background, viewpoint or level of involvement, each of us make up a part of the whole that is our community.
- Queer Student ResourcesA community center for students that are celebrating, questioning, investigating and/or struggling with sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
- Weiland Health InitiativeCollective of medical providers, mental health professionals, staff, students, and community leaders that represent a partnership between multiple campus departments including Vaden Health Center and Queer Student Resources
- Women's Community CenterExists to facilitate growth and engagement for Stanford students around issues of gender, equity, identity, and justice. We do this by building community and providing innovative opportunities to explore scholarship, leadership, and activism.