Links: Cross-Cultural Resources

• EthnoMed: ethnic medicine guide. Provides medical and cultural information on immigrant and refugee groups. The Harborview Medical Center, Seattle
• Clinical aspects of culture in the practice of psychiatry: assessment and treatment of culturally diverse patients. Medscape; registration required
• Culture and Mental Health Research Unit. McGill University
• Culture clues. Tip sheets for clinicians working with diverse populations (UWMC)
• Culture, race and ethnicity. A supplement to Mental Health: Report of the Surgeon General (US)  
• DiversityRx. Resources on the delivery of cross-cultural health care
• Emergency multilingual phrase book. 2004. Common medical questions translated into 36 languages. British Red Cross and the Department of Health
• hmonghealth.org: provides access to health information for Hmong people and those who provide health, education and social services to the Hmong community
• Multicultural health. Queensland Health
• Multicultural health best practices overview. Prepared for the California Endowment Multicultural Health Investment Area
• Tool for Assessing Cultural Competence Training (TACCT). Association of American Medical Colleges

Multilingual Mental Health Information: Patient information in languages other than English

• Multicultural mental health and substance use resources. Here to Help BC
• Information in other languages. BC Schizophrenia Society
• CMHA's multi-language brochures
• Multilingual resources. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Ontario)
• Chinese language fact sheets and leaflets. Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK)
• Information in other languages. Fact sheets about dementia and caregiving from Alzheimer's Australia
• Multilingual consumer health information. National Network of Libraries of Medicine
• SPIRAL: selected patient information resources in Asian languages
• Resources in other languages. Mind (UK)

Page last modified or reviewed December 16, 2009