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Foreign Language Health Education Materials	General Ethno-Health Sites
Latino Culture & Medicine	Asian / Oriental Health
If you know of additional sites, please let me know & I will add to this listing!!

A. - Foreign Language Health Materials

http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_01/bisa1001.htm Foreign-Language Health Education Materials Available on the Internet from the
New Mexico Refugee Health Program, September 12, 2000. "The links lead to foreign-language materials which may be of use to health care practitioners and others who are serving refugees and/or immigrants. The materials come from a wide variety of sources and should be reviewed for content which might not be appropriate for use in your particular locality or within your specific program guidelines. Wherever possible, links are provided to English-language materials upon which the foreign-language materials are based."

See also the sections below for additional language-specific materials.

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B. - General Ethnocultural Health Sites

http://www.hslib.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed/ University of Washington site for ethnocultural health beliefs - focus on cultural/linguistic groups in the Seattle area.

http://www.paho.org/ - Pan American Health Organization - the Regional office of the World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/home-page/

http://www.healthcollaborative.org/ California Health Collaborative, Central Valley, CA, (Part of TCE interpreter training Group)

http://www.excite.com/health/family_health/ethnic_communities/
- Ethnic Communities Web Sites (includes lots of links for health sites for African-American, American Indian, Asian/Pacific Islanders, Latino,

http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/index.htm
- Cultural Competence Standards cultural competence documents were produced under the auspices of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE) Mental Health Program and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and are part of the CMHS Managed Care Workforce Training Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Included at this site are Cultural Competence Standards in Managed Care Mental Health Services for 4 communities:
http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/ccsasiantoc.htm
- for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans;
http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/index.htm
- for populations of African descent;
http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/index.htm
- for Latino populations;
http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/index.htm
- for Native American populations

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C. Latino Health

http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm This is the Spanish-language version of the English-language US Department of Health - Improving Health Care Quality site:

Mejorando la calidad de la atención médica
Improving Health Care Quality

Consejo acerca de lo que se puede hacer para obtener una buena calidad de la atención medica y evitar errores medicales.

Advice on what people can do to get good quality medical care and avoid medical errors.

http://www.cesla.med.ucla.edu/ - The Center for Study of Latino Health & Culture at UCLA Department of Medicine

http://www.cesla.med.ucla.edu/home.html - National Hispanic Medical Association

Clinica Tepati - Since 1974, Clinica Tepati has been a non-profit, student-run clinic that provides free primary health care services to the uninsured population of Sacramento and the surrounding area. The clinic was founded by a highly motivated group of Chicano/Latino students...

Latinomed - UC Davis School of Medicine's Office of Medical Education Opportunity Programs (Med EOP) is now sponsoring Latino Medicine.

http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/index.htm
- Cultural Competency Standards in mental health for Latino populations

Mi Pediatra Homepage - Pediatric info in Spanish

Dr. Terraza's List of Latino Medically Related Sites - Dr. Terraza keeps a comprehensive list of resources about Latino medical resourcese list.

http://www.latinohealthaccess.org/ - Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, CA

http://www.uic.edu/depts/mcam/hce.html Hispanic Center of Excellence at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine

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D. Asian Health Care

http://www.aaom.org/ - American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM)

http://www.ahschc.org - Asian Health Services, Oakland, (Part of TCE interpreter training Group)

http://wrinkle.stanford.edu/aahi/ - The Asian American Health Initiative Stanford University School of Medicine

http://www.wiche.edu/mentalhealth/CCStandards/ccsasiantoc.htm
- for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans - Cultural Competency Standards for mental health.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/cbm/asianam.html - National Library of Medicine - Current bibliographies in Medicine - Asian - Pacific Islander American Health.

http://www.acupuncture.com/ - commercial website with good links

http://www.cpaam.ca/ - Canadian Practitioners' Association of Asian Medicine

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ - COOMBSWEB - ASIAN STUDIES SERVER linking to multiple other online resources. The Australian National University, Internet Publications Bureau, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia

http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/asian_health.html - Asian-American Health - Cambodian (Khmer), Laotian, Vietnamese, More Links (Site by Charles Kemp at Baylor University)

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These links will be expanded - Please email me any additional websites and online resources. Thank you! Niels Agger-Gupta