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Recommended Web Sites
 National Center
for Farmworker Health -
This center produces fact sheets in both English and Spanish. You can register (for free) at their Online Library for more info.
Racial/Ethnic
Health Disparities - Read about the disparities
between the different races and ethnic groups at this
site from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CulturedMed
(SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome) - Resources (including Web
sites, bibliographies, and databases) on health care
for refugees and immigrants.
DisabilityWorld
- DisabilityWorld is a bimonthly web-zine of international
disability news and views. It is also available in Spanish.
EthnoMed - The EthnoMed site contains
information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and
other related issues pertinent to the health care of
recent immigrants to Seattle, many of whom are refugees
fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
Health
Information for Minority Women
- Excellent resource for women of color or for healthcare
professionals who serve women of color.
Indian Health Service - The Indian Health Service
(IHS) is an agency within the US Dept. of Health and
Human Services and is responsible for providing federal
health services to American Indians and Alaska Natives.
MedlinePlus:
Population Groups - The
librarians at the National Library of Medicine have
assembled links to quality resources for several dozen
groups at this site.
Multicultural
Health Clearinghouse - This site has been developed by the Special Populations Students' Health Concerns Committee (SPSHCC) to provide health and wellness information for underrepresented population groups.
Office
of Minority Health
- Links from the OMH, who advises the Secretary and
the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) on public
health issues affecting American Indians and Alaska
Natives, Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Other
Pacific Islanders, Blacks/African Americans, and Hispanics/Latinos.
Race,
Ethnicity and Medical Care
- Information from the Kaiser healthcare group on how
to best provide medical services to multicultural populations.
SPIRAL/Selected
Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages
- Tufts University's Health Sciences Library has developed
this health resource for Asian-Americans whose first
language is not English. Dubbed SPIRAL for "Selected
Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages,"
it contains detailed health information for both phsycians
and patients in seven Asian languages--Chinese, Hmong,
Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese.
Transcultural
Mental Health Online
- Interesting set of links to articles about an assortment
of mental health topics.
-Multilingual Health Information-
Multicultural
and Multilingual Health Information - A great resource from Australia
with plenty of quality health information - most files
are translated into: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, English,
Italian, Khmer/Cambodian, Korean, Macedonian, Portugese,
Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese.
NOAH:NY Access to Health
- The acclaimed NOAH health web site in Spanish.
Please also
check the specific minority group here in HealthyNJ:
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