Office of Minority Health, US Dept of Health & Human Services
These publications, provided by the Office of Minority Health, include: Consumer Publications, Health Professional Materials, OMH Publications, Publications in Other Languages, and Spanish Language Materials.
University of Minnesota - Center for Spirituality and Healing - Research
This Center is committed to exploring integrative therapies in the context of rigorous science. It recently achieved the distinction of a National Institute of Health (NIH) - Development Center for CAM Research. The Center faculty is currently engaged in basic science, clinical trials, and health services research.
National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University
The NCCC provides a list of publications, sorted by type. They include: Articles,
Checklists, Guides and Planning Tools, Monographs, Multimedia, Policy Briefs, Promising Practices, and Tools
Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith, & Ethics
The Park Ridge Center explores and enhances the interaction of health, faith, and ethics through research, education and consultation to improve the lives of individuals and communities. The Center is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization affiliated with Advocate Health Care, recognized as the leading integrated health care delivery network in the United States.
The Body - Religion and HIV/AIDS
This site provides publications on the issues of HIV/AIDS and the following world religions: Interfaith, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim.
The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence - Insights and Research
The Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence is a global initiative to advance the research and practice of spiritual development. This site includes research findings, interviews and essays, recommended reading lists, events and opportunities in the field, news releases, and other information on young people's spiritual development from a global context.
JCAHO and Press Ganey Resources Regarding Spirituality
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Press Ganey Associates have addressed in various publications the issues of patient spirituality and spiritual assessment.
The Pluralism Project at Harvard University
Since 1991, the Pluralism Project has engaged students and affiliates in the study of the new religious diversity in the United States. We have a special research interest in the communities and religious traditions of Asia and the Middle East that have become woven into the religious fabric of the United States in the past forty years. The overall aims of the Pluralism Project are:
1. To document and better understand the changing contours of American religious demography, focusing especially on those cities and towns where the new plurality has been most evident and discerning the ways in which this plurality is both visible and invisible in American public life.
2. To study the religious communities themselves ¬ their temples, mosques, gurudwaras and retreat centers, their informal networks and emerging institutions, their forms of adaptation and religious education in the American context, their encounter with the other religious traditions of our common society, and their encounter with civic institutions.
3. To explore the ramifications and implications of America's new plurality through case studies of particular cities and towns, looking at the response of Christian and Jewish communities to their new neighbors; the development of interfaith councils and networks; the new theological and pastoral questions that emerge from the pluralistic context; and the recasting of traditional church-state issues in a wider context.
4. To discern, in light of this work, the emerging meanings of religious "pluralism," both for religious communities and for public institutions, and to consider the real challenges and opportunities of a public commitment to pluralism in the light of the new religious contours of America.
The Internet Sacred Text Archive
The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet, this site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship.
Religious Movements - University of Virginia
This Religious Movements site from the University of Virginia provides a foundation for understanding how religious groups emerge, grow, stagnate, reinvigorate themselves, and sometimes die.
Park Ridge Center for Health, Faith, & Ethics
The Park Ridge Center explores the interaction of health, faith, and ethics through research, education and consultation to improve the lives of individuals and communities. The Center is an independent, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization affiliated with Advocate Health Care, recognized as the leading integrated health care delivery network in the United States.
Religion News Blog
Religion news articles about religious cults, sects, world religions and related issues.
BBC News Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions.
Cultural Orientation Resource Center
The Cultural Orientation Resource (COR) Center provides important orientation resources for refugee newcomers and service providers throughout the United States and overseas.
Cultural Profiles Project
This Cultural Profiles Project, sponsored by Canadian Citizenship and Immigration, includes 101 country profiles. Each cultural profile provides an overview of life and customs in the profiled country and may not apply in equal measure to all newcomers from the profiled country
Cross Cultural Health Care Program
The Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP) addresses broad cultural issues that impact the health of individuals and families in ethnic minority communities in Seattle and nationwide. The mission of the CCHCP is to serve as a bridge between communities and health care institutions to ensure full access to quality health care that is culturally and linguistically appropriate.
DiversityRx
Diversity Rx is a clearinghouse of information on how to meet the language and cultural needs of minorities, immigrants, refugees and other diverse populations seeking health care.
EthnoMed
Cultural Competency Resources and Patient Education Materials for: Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Oromo, Somali, Spanish, Tigrean, Vietnamese and others.
Office of Minority Health, US Dept of Health & Human Services
The mission of the Office of Minority Health (OMH) is to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities.
Boston Healing Landscape Project Multicultural Country Guide
BHLP developed the Multicultural Country Index to provide a broad range of information related to the countries of origin of culturally diverse US patient populations. Based on a cross-cultural medical history-taking model, each Index organizes categories related to a variety of topics, starting with a general overview of the country (for example, demographics, socioeconomics, customs, religion) and leading to more specifically health-related headings. While the primary audience is healthcare professionals, this resource will appeal to researchers, students, and laypeople engaged in their own cross-cultural research.
Finding Meaning in Medicine
The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI) has been assisting physicians nation-wide to develop self-directed, on-going, values and meaning discussion groups in their communities, independent of institutional support. It enables physicians to uncover the deep meaning that lies below the daily routine of practice, and to find strength within a community of physicians who share their values.
Fanlight Productions: Documentary Films on Health and Social Issues: Cross-Cultural Issues in Healthcare
Including:
. Worlds Apart. A Four-Part Series on Cross-Cultural Healthcare by Maren Grainger-Monsen, MD, and Julia Haslett, Stanford University
. Community Voices: Exploring Cross-Cultural Care Through Cancer. Video and Facilitator's Guide by Jennie Greene, MS & Kim Newell, MD, Harvard Center for cancer Prevention
. The Culture of Emotions: A Cultural Competence and Diversity Training Program
National Health Law Program
The National Health Law Program is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.
Peaceful Families Project
The Peaceful Families Project is a national organization that facilitates domestic violence awareness workshops for Muslim leaders and communities, provides cultural sensitivity trainings for providers and professionals, and develops resources regarding abuse in Muslim communities.
Faith and the Arts
This website showcases artists working within a faith context, as well as the best in faith related visual arts. Content includes faith and the arts related research papers, case studies, feature articles and event listings. Faith and the Arts currently covers the following religions: Bahai, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jain, Judaism, Islam, Rastafari, and Sikhism.
compiled by Justine de Marrais and Michael Zales, with assistance from Khudejha Asghar and Sharon Touw
last updated October 2007
