Cultural Awareness Resources for Professionals
The resources listed below are a collection of materials available from a variety of sources
designed to give professionals insight into working with clients of varying backgrounds. While the list does not include every resource available, it does offer a wide variety. If you have a resource you'd like to recommend, please email the Health Department at
health@scottcountyiowa.com. Resources will continue to be added. All the resources are listed on this page. Click on the focus topic for resources in those categories.
- A Diversity Glossary
- A Family Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
- A Health Provider’s Pocket Guide to Working with Elderly Minority, Immigrant, and Refugee Patients
- A Health Provider’s Pocket Guide to Working with Immigrant, Refugee and Minority Populations in Iowa
- A Planner's Guide…Infusing Principles, Content and Themes Related to Cultural and Linguistic Competence into Meetings and Conferences
- A Practical Guide for Implementing the Recommended National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care
- A Primer for Cultural Proficiency: Towards Quality Health Services for Hispanics
- At Risk in America: The Health and Health Care Needs of Vulnerable Populations in the United States, Second Edition
- Bridging the Gap Interpreter Handbook
- Caring Across Cultures: Achieving Culture Competence in Health Programs at School
- Command Spanish
- Communicate to Make a Difference: Exploring Cross-Cultural Communication
- Communicating Between Culture
- Communicating Effectively Through An Interpreter: An instructional video for health care providers
- Community-Based Health Organizations: Advocating for Improved Health
- Community Health Psychology: Empowerment for Diverse Communications
- Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice, 5th Ed.
- Crossing Cultures in Mental Health
- Cultural and Linguistic Competence Policy Assessment
- Cultural Competence in Health Care
- Cultural Competence in Health Care: Emerging Frameworks and Practical Approaches
- Cultural Competency in Health Care: A Guide for Trainers
- Culture and the Clinical Encounter: An Intercultural Sensitizer for the Health Professions
- Customizing Diversity Training with Case Vignettes
- Customized Training and Consultation
- Death and Dying in Ethnic America
- Delivering Health Care to Hispanics: A Manual for Providers Third Edition (2004)
- Delivering Health Care to Hispanics: A Manual for Providers Third Edition (2004) Companion Workbook
- Developing Cultural Competence
- Developing Diversity Training for the Workplace: A Guide for Trainers
- English as a Second Language Classes
- Everyone's Ethnic: Your Invisible Culture
- Exploring the State of Poverty
- Foreign Language Continuing Education Courses
- FreeTranslation
- Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches
- Hablamos Juntos-We Speak Together: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos
- Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Public Health, A Practitioner's Guide to Services
- Healing by Heart: Clinical and Ethical Case Stories of Hmong Families and Western Providers
- Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequality in the Distribution of Disease
- Health in the Americas: 2002 Edition
- Health Issues in the Black Community
- Health Issues in the Latino Community, 2nd Edition
- Hispanic Patients' Double Burden: Lack of Health Insurance and Limited English
- I'm Normal, You're Weird: Understanding Other Cultures
- Immigrant Women's Health: Problems and Solutions
- Interpreter's Guide to Common Medications
- Journal Article The Challenge of Reaching a Culturally Diverse Audience
- Language and Communication Skills Continuing Education Courses
- Language Services Action Kit: Interpreter Services in Health Care Settings for People with Limited English Proficiency
- Latina Health in the United States: A Public Health Reader
- Managing Diversity in Health Care: Proven Tools and Activities for Leaders and Trainers
- Managing Diversity: A Complete Desk Reference and Planning Guide, Revised Edition
- Medical Glossaries: Expanded & Revised
- Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States
- Multicultural Case Studies: Tools for Training
- Online Portal of Asian Language Cancer Information
- Practicing Cross-Cultural Communication: Hepatitis A Outbreak
- Provider's Guide to Quality and Culture
- Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader
- Race, Ethnicity, and Self: Identity in Multicultural Perspective
- Reinventing Public Health: Policies and Practices for a Healthy Nation
- Speech 175: Intercultural Communication On Line
- Teaching Skills and Cultural Competency: A Guide for Trainers
- The 'Can You Hear Me' Series
- The Rehabilitation Provider's Guide to Cultures of the Foreign-Born
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
- Toward Culturally Competent Care: A Toolbox for Teaching Communication Strategies
- TrainingFinder.org
- Understanding Our Differences: Mexicans and Americans
- Valuing Diversity Multi-Cultural Communication
- Vulnerable Populations in the United States
- What a Difference an Interpreter Can Make: Health Care Experiences of Uninsured with Limited English Proficiency
- What Language Does Your Patient Hurt In? A Practical Guide to Caring for Patients from other Cultures
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