Patient Education and Health Literacy: Cultural Competency

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

“EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants, many of whom are
refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.”

Economic and social indicators as well as statistics for all U.N. Member States.

Miscellaneous fact sheets in foreign languages such as Creole, Japanese, Ukrainian, etc.

From the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Sorted by language, such as Arabic, Laotian, Thai, etc.

“EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants, many of whom are
refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.” From the University of Washington. Browse by Topic or Language (such as Hmong, Vietnamese, Amharic).

National Library of Medicine’s HealthReach resources provide information related to cultural competence and communication about health in diverse populations.” Downloadable audio, video and handouts on health topics in English, Spanish and other languages.

From the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

From the Association of American Medical Colleges.

From the National Center for Cultural Competence. Tools to assess organizational and individual competence.

Sunil Kripalani, MD, MSc
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Volume 21(10):1116–1120, 2006.

How Harvard does it.

From the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development.

From the Office of Minority Health. CE credits available for PAs, physicians, and nurses.