Dartmouth College Library Cultural Awareness and Healthcare Books
FEATURED BOOK TITLE
World Religions for Healthcare Professionals
World Religions for Healthcare Professionals is a sensitive, engaging, and deeply informative book that offers new insights to those who thought they understood the worlds great religious traditions, as well as an orientation for those who have given little attention to matters of religion and health up till now. The consistent pattern in each chapter makes the book eminently accessible. It is a book to be read from beginning to end, and then consulted whenever the reader encounters persons from a tradition other than theirs - an invaluable resource.
Cultural Awareness in Healthcare Book Titles
Other featured book titles in the Dartmouth College library collection.
- Asian voices [electronic resource] : Asian and Asian American health educators speak out
- Assessing patient experiences with healthcare in multi-cultural settings
- Assessing race, ethnicity and gender in health
- Case studies in cultural diversity [electronic resource] : a workbook
- Mental health care for urban Indians [electronic resource] : clinical insights from Native practitioners
- Minority health in America : findings and policy implications from the Commonwealth Fund minority health survey
- National Health Care Quality Report
- Religions, culture, and healthcare : a practical handbook for use in healthcare environments
- Strategies for improving minority healthcare quality [electronic resource]
- Transcultural health care
- Unequal Treatment
- Unnatural causes [videorecording] : is inequality making us sick?
Library Catalog
Teaching Tools for Health Professionals
- Cancer Resources in Languages Other than English
- Case Studies: Diversity and Cultural Competence - American Medical Student Association
- Cultural Clues - Learning about Cultural Competency in Health Care - Washington State University program. Tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures.
- Cultural Competency Course - Medical University of South Carolina
- Cultural competency skills - National Center for Cultural Competency in Health Care - Georgetown University
- Ethnogeriatric Curriculum - Stanford University
- New Hampshire Minority Health Coalition
- Program for Multi-Cultural Health University of Michigan
- Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture
- Toward Culturally Competent Care: A Toolbox for Teaching Communication Strategies - Dartmouth College Libraries book
Patient Information Resources
- Consumer health brochures on various topics in 24 languages.
- Ethnomed
- Health care information for Native Americans.
- Hmong Health - Web site with information on Hmong (Laos) health information.
- Medical Ethics in Islam
- Medline Plus - Selected health care information in forty-five languages.
- SPIRAL - Selected patient information in several Asian languages.
- Tribal Connections - eHealth Information Resources
Dartmouth Hitchcock Interpreter Services
DHMC Language Interpretation Service:
Languages, other than English, and Deaf Interpreter needs are centrally coordinated for the DHMC complex and Lebanon Clinics through the Care Management Office. To arrange for an interpreter please call 603-650-5792 Monday - Friday from 8:00AM until 5:00PM. For emergencies outside these regular business hours, please contact the Social Worker on call, who can be reached through the hospital operator. Dial 0.
Professional Associations
- Doctors Without Borders - International organization of doctors providing multi-cultural healthcare around the globe.
- Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
- Minority Affairs Consortium - American Medical Association
- National Network of Libraries: Multilingual Health Information
- Office of Minority Health US Department of Health and Human Services
- The Kaiser Family Foundation - Minority Health information from the Kaiser foundation.
- Partners in Health
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Worlds Apart - Four Part Video Series
Worlds Apart : A four-part series on cross-cultural healthcare
by Maren Grainger-Monsen and Julia Haslett.
Imprint Boston, MA : Fanlight Productions, c2003.
Matthews-Fuller Health Sciences Library
This film follows patients and families facing critical medical decisions as they navigate their
way through the health care system. Provides a look at a variety of patients' cultures and the
culture of medicine. The film raises an awareness about the role sociocultural barriers play in
patient-provider communication and in the provision of healthcare services for culturally and
ethnically diverse patients.
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