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Online Site Links:

Articles
Books,
Conferences,
Distance Learning sites
Web casts,
Websites,

Health Literacy:

An Annotated Bibliography of Health Literacy for Adult English Language
Learners - National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)


Culture, Health, and Literacy


Health Literacy defined


Non-English Language & Health Literacy Resources

Cross Cultural Health Care Program

Cross Cultural Resources in Primary Care - Transcultural, Multicultural; Cultural Competency

                                                                       Holdings information is accessed  at: http://catalog.library.kumc.edu/  Search "MIRC" in the limits field.

 

Online Site Links:

Minority Health (Agency for Health Research Quality) order list of free titles or citations

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR)

Glossary of Culture-Bound Syndromes:
(Bibliography of Sources)

Health Advocate's Guide to the Internet

Health Disparity Research

Limited English Proficiency (LEP) Regulations

Health information by culture from MedlinePlus:

African American
Asian American
Native American
Hispanic American
Women's Health (General)

 

   Online Site Links:

Minority Health Project

Reaching Out: Successful Efforts to Provide Children and Families with Health Care - Item #474

Recommendations for Making the Consumers’ Voice Heard in Medicaid Managed Care:  A Guide to Effective Consumer Involvement-Sections 1-3 in PDF Format

Office of Research on Minority Health (National Institutes of Health)

U.S. Immigration Statistics by State

Building the Rhythm of Change: Developing Leadership and Improving Services Within the Battered Rural Immigrant Women's Community

Washington State DSHS              Langs: Cambodian | Chinese | Korean | Laotian | Russian | Spanish | Vietnamese

For related information you can also contact: 
MIRC Library
Center of Excellence-KUMC
2017 Wahl Hall, West
39th & Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
PH: (913)588-5292  
EM: tmendoza@kumc.edu

 

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