Office for Minority Health
"Health care organizations should ensure that patients/consumers receive from all staff members effective, understandable, and respectful care that is provided in a manner compatible with their cultural helath beliefs and practices and preferred language."
One of the 14 National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
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What You Need to Know
Introduction
Cultural and linguistic competence plays a significant role in making health care accessible. This guide connects students in Spanish 311 with relevant resources.
Salud by Xavier Cortada.
Statistics and Resources
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Minority Health
- Alianza Nacional para la salud Mental (NAMI)
- Alianza Nacional para la Salud Mental de los Hispanos (NAHH)
- Buena Salud: Informacion de salud
- Centro para el control y la prevencion de enfermedades (CDC)
- Clinica Universitaria de Navarra (Espana)
- Cuidar de su salud: fuente de informacionRisk assessment
- FASTSTATS -Health of Hispanic or Latino Population
- Focus on Latino PatientsLatino health information for health care providers
- Hablamos JuntosLanguage policy and practices in health care
- Health Finder (Spanish)U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Hispanic Population of the United StatesUS Census Bureau
- Hispanics and Health Care in the United StatesA Joint Pew Hispanic Center and Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Research Report - HRSA Cultural Competence
- Instituto Nacional del CancerNational Cancer Institute
- Mi pediatraChildren's Health Information
- Migrant Clinics Network
- Monografias de salud
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative MedicineThe National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) is the Federal Government's lead agency for scientific research on the diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not generally considered part of conventional medicine.
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Partnership for Action (NPA) to End Health DisparitiesIn Ohio, input into the NPA will occur through local conversations that will be conducted in fourteen (14) Ohio cities and by the statewide Hispanic/Latino, Asian and Native American Health Coalitions.
- National Vital Statistics ReportsCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
- Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2006Pew Hispanic Center
- Tu otro medicoInformacion de salud en espanol
- U.S. Drug and Food Administration Pamphlet in Spanish
- Universe of Women's HealthGlobal, physician-revised network for doctors, women and the medical industry
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