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Medicine and Health Care

Culture and Diversity in Medicine


Health Disparities

The Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic and Health Disparities - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Includes information resources, publications, funding initiatives, HHS activities, and state and local activities.

Addressing Health Disparities: The NIH Program for Action

Office of Research on Minority Health - NIH


Cultural Attitudes Towards Medical Ethics

Information Resources for Various Minority Groups - Office of Research on Minority Health, NIH.

Issues in Islamic Medical Ethics - is a website at the University of Virginia, the purpose of which is to provide generally agreed upon guidelines in matters of medical practice and bioethics  in accord with the five schools of Islamic Religious Law: the Maliki, Hanafi, Shafi'i, Hanbali and Ja'fari (Imami Shi'i).

Technology and the African-American Experience - a specialized bibliography compiled by Dr. Amy Bix, Program in History of Technology and Science, Iowa State University, June 1994.  Contains citations with regard to ethinicity, genomics, medical issues, and bioethics.

 

Cultural Competency in Health Care

Cultural Competency: This report, written under the aegis of the American Medical Association (AMA), Council on Medical Education, (CME) is from an annual meeting of the AMA. The report, "Enhancing the Cultural Competence of Physicians" is listed as CME Report 5 - A-98.

Cultural Competency: National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is a program is a component of the Georgetown University Child Development Center, Center for Child Health and Mental Health Policy, and is housed within the Department of Pediatrics of the Georgetown University Medical Center. The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care programs to design, implement and evaluate culturally competent service delivery systems.

Culture and Medicine: The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School, Medical Anthropology Program - offers a nexus of understanding and integrating medicine and culture. The syllabus highlights some of the issues currently influencing this integration, such as, The Life History in Anthropology, and Social Network Analysis.

Cross-Cultural Ethics in Medicine - The University of Washington School of Medicine maintains a program, Ethics in Medicine. A feature of the site is Cross-Cultural Issues and Diverse Beliefs-with an Emphasis in Pediatrics. The site-map list a number of bioethical topics, with a special enphasis on populations located in the Northwest.

Culture and Diversity in Ethnic Health - The Virtual Library maintains a website on worldwide culture and diversity in health.

Guideline article: Cultural Difference, Trust, and Optimum Care for Minority Patients - provided by The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions. Issues included are (1) Two Types of Cultural Difference; (2) Is There an Historical Context for Culturally-based Mistrust of Physicians?; (3) Toward Minimizing Cross-cultural Misunderstanding and Mistrust. This same volume contains related risk management issues such as: Demystifying Myths About Informed Consent n Addressing Ethical Conflicts in the ICU.

Journal article: Culture and Ethnicity in Clinical Care - Jeffrey T. Berger, MD Archives of Internal Medicine - Commentary Vol. 158, pp. 2085-2090, October 26, 1998 Offers a culturally-oriented overview of (1) Advance Directives; (2) Preferences For Treatment; (3) Health Beliefs; (4) Autopsy And Organ Donation; (5) Disclosure And Truth Telling and; (6) Physician Bias, Behavior, And Background

Race, Health care and the Law, explores the role of the law in improving the health status of people-of-color and to assure access to quality health care. Includes statutes, cases,law review articles, essays, and other documents. The website is maintained at the University of Dayton School of Law.

University of Wisconsin Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine (CREM) - has as its focus the role of race and ethnicity in shaping the expectations, beliefs, and attitudes of physicians and patients; disparities in the effects of many diseases and conditions on racial and ethnic groups; and inequities in health care delivery. These objectives will be met through the development of educational programs, research initiatives, and outreach activities.

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