General Resources

• The Center for the Health Professions:
  • http://futurehealth.ucsf.edu/TheNetwork/
• Matters of Race (PBS Series)
• Bucher, Richard D. (2004, 2nd Ed.) Diversity Consciousness:
  • Opening our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities
• Wells, Shirley A., & Black, Roxie M. (2000) Cultural Competency for Health Professionals. Albany: Boyd Printing Company
• Diversity Rx:
  • http://www.diversity.org/HTML/MOCPT4.htm
  • This website offers information on how to design programs that address linguistic and cultural barriers to healthcare.
• Providers Guide to Quality and Culture:
  • http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&module=provider&language=English&ggropu=&mgroup=
  • This website contains useful information related to cultural competence and health care.
• National Center for Cultural Competence:
  • http://www.11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd.nccc/
  • The mission of the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) is to increase the capacity of health and mental health programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems.
• US Census Bureau:
  • http://www.census.gov
  • Definitions of race, populations, and geographic information
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement:
  • http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/ImprovementMethods/Resources/
    CrossCulturalHealthCareProgram.htm
  • http://calstore.cal.org/store/detail.aspx?ID=333
  • Tons of resources and DVDs on immigrants. There are excellent information and tips you can download and phrase books
• Center for Immigration Studies:
  • http://www.cis.org/

How To Choose Credible Websites/Sources

It is important to learn how to choose credible sites for your information. Most people don’t know that there is no one who has to judge the quality or accuracy of the information found on the internet before you use it. Some sites are created by experts but the majority are designed and authored by non-experts.

We have included several expert sites listed below to help you as you research.

• Same as printed books and journals?:
  • Critically Analyzing Information Sources from the Cornell University Library.
    • http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm
• Evaluating Web Pages: Questions to Ask & Strategies for Getting the Answers
  • An eight-point evaluation checklist from the UC Berkeley Library.
    • http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html
• Evaluating Information Found on the Internet (Elizabeth E. Kirk):
  • ...from Johns Hopkins University
    • http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html
• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages (Jim Kapoun):
  • To evaluate Web sites go to this table of criteria and questions to ask when judging the reliability of information on the Web.
    • http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webcrit.htm
• Generic Criteria for Evaluation (Hope Tillman):
  • http://www.hopetillman.com/findqual.html
• Criteria for the Evaluation of Internet Information Resources (Alastair Smith):
  • http://epress.lib.uh.edu/pr/v8/n3/smit8n3.html