This site provides profiles of African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Central Asians, Hispanics/Latinos, Muslims, Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, and South Asians.(United States)

American Medical Student Association-Diversity

AMSA strives to cultivate a tolerant, accepting and culturally diverse physician workforce, which can effectively serve our multi-cultural society. This site contains resources and case studies used in student training and building awareness. Links are provided to resources targeting specific ethnic groups (African, Asian, Latino, Middle Eastern) (United States)

Asian American Health

This is a health information portal developed for Asian Americans. This web resource, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, is designed to increase public awareness of the health concerns of these important minority groups. Links are provided to an assortment of documents, web sites, databases, and other resources. (United States)

Canadian Nurses Association: Promoting Culturally Competent Care

This is a position statement on cultural competence produced by the Canadian Nurses' Association. Included are key concepts, responsibilities and a background pertaining to nursing practice and cultural competence.(Canada)

Cross Cultural Palliative Care NET

This website provides resources on palliative care in a cross cultural context.(Canada)

Cultural Competency for Health Care Providers

This resource is a collaborative effort between Champlain Valley Health Education Center in Vermont and the University of Vermont AHEC's Freeman Medical Scholars Program. It was designed for health care providers to support the promotion of cultural competency in their practice. Emphasis is placed on cultural competency and what it means, delivering culturally competent care and effective communication strategies when dealing with diverse cultural backgrounds. This resource provides useful information on specific refugee and immigrant populations including: Somalis, Congolese, Sudanese, Vietnamese, Bosnian & Herzegovina, and Meskhetian Turks. Links are also provided to other useful multi-ethnic health resources for health care practitioners. (United States)

Cultural Profiles Project

This website was funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada. It features overviews of life and culture in many countries and was developed to assist Canadians in understanding immigrants.(Canada)

Culture Cues

This site provides tip sheets for clinicians, designed to increase awareness about concepts and preferences of patients from the diverse cultures served by University of Washington Medical Center. (United States)

Cultures West-Newsletter

Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of BC newsletter with many articles and case studies. (Canada)

Epilepsy Ontario: Multicultural Outreach Project

The Multicultural Outreach Project focuses on learning about the different cultural views withheld in various communities in order to create cultural awareness among physicians and counsellors working with patients diagnosed with epilepsy. Information is provided about epilepsy in several ethnic communities including the: African American community, Chinese community, Latin community, South Asian community and Canadian Aboriginal community.(Ontario, Canada)

Guide to Arab Culture: Health Care Delivery to the Arab American Community

This publication provides a guide to Arab culture to assist in the provision of effective and sensitive health care to Arabic speaking patients. It is designed specifically for health care providers and includes information on the health care systems and beliefs of Arab countries and provides an overview of the history, customs and culture that might influence health care provision to Arabic speaking communities. (United States)

Multi-Cultural Palliative Care Guidelines-(Palliative Care Council of South Australia, Inc.)

This site provides information on caring for dying patients in regards to general beliefs on family involvement, words to avoid when discussing death, burial customs, religion, attitudes towards pain , relief and more. The groups they provide information about are: Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese, Croatian, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese. (Australia)

Multi-faith Guide for Health Care Professionals

This guide was developed by the Spiritual and Religious Care Department at Hamilton Health Sciences. It provides information on religious beliefs and practices as they relate to health care. This guide reflects the religious traditions of populations of the greater Hamilton, Ontario region. (Hamilton,Canada)

Multicultural Health Clearinghouse

This website provides health and wellness information for underrepresented population groups. (United States)

National Alliance for Hispanic Health

This website provides health information, publications, news and reports targeting Hispanic communities. (United States)

National Cancer Institute

This web page features cancer information targeted to different ethnic/racial audiences. (United States)

National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

This website features publications on cardiovascular health pertaining to selected ethnic groups. Information is aimed at the public. (United States)

National Heart Lung & Blood Institute

This website features publications on cardiovascular health pertaining to selected ethnic groups. Information is aimed at health professionals. (United States)

Neighborhood Health Profiles

These profiles provide general information about the health and social characteristics of neighbourhoods in Hamilton and are intended for home care service providers and other community health and social service organizations. The profiles include information on population demographics, socio-economic status, health and health care utilization. Each neighbourhood is compared to the City of Hamilton, as a whole, and to the Province of Ontario, where possible. There is a final profile comparing neighbourhoods to each other and to Hamilton.(Ontario, Canada)

Statistics Canada: Health Profile

This online database features community-level data from a number of sources including Statistics Canada's health surveys, administrative data, and the census of population. The application is designed to give quick access to the latest health-related data available for a selected health region. (Canada)

South Asian Heart Center

This website provides information on coronary heart disease among South Asians. (United States)

South Asian Health Project

This website provides health information targeting South Asians. (United States)

The Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW (MDAA)

This Australian based advocacy organization promotes the rights of people from non-English speaking backgrounds with disability, their families and carers. Information on specific ethnic communities and disability is featured.(Australia)

Transcultural Nursing-Resources and Case Studies

This site was developed to share with nurses and other healthcare professional's experiences and thoughts concerning the complexities involved in caring for people from diverse cultural backgrounds. This site contains a range of cultural behaviours and the need to understand people's actions from their own cultural perspective in health and illness. (United States)

Toronto Community Health Profiles Partnership

A partnership designed to facilitate access to information on the health status, demographic composition, diversity and socioeconomic status of communities in Toronto for health planning. The overall goal is to use this information to understand the health needs of communities and help reduce health inequalities.(Ontario, Canada)