MULTI-CULTURAL HEALTH
RESOURCES GUIDE
African Americans
Asian
Americans Hispanic
Americans Native
Americans
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
■
LIAS CAT- Search for books
▪ Sample
Subject Searches for Multi-Cultural Health Resources
▪ Broad Categories
-
Cross-Cultural Health Studies
- Minorities
Health
- Minorities
Medical Care
- Minorities
Mental Health
▪ African Americans
- African
Americans Health
- African
Americans Hypertension
▪ Asian Americans
- Asian
American Health
- Asian
American Medical Care
▪ Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic
American Health
- Hispanic
American Diabetes
▪ Indians of North America
- Indians of North America Health
- Indians
of North America Mental Health
■ DATABASES (Search
for articles and more on
LIAS E-Resource List (A-Z) )
▪ Full Text Journal
Resources
▪ Academic
IDEAL
- Applied and biomedical sciences
- Social and behavioral sciences
- Recommended Journals: Prevention
Medicine, Journal of Adolescence, Nurse Education Today
▪ CINAHL
(Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) direct
- Journals, relevant books, chapters, nursing dissertations,
association publications
- Educational software
- Research instruments
- Selected conference proceedings
- If you are looking for nursing journals, please
refer to
CINAHL® Database in ProQuest
Direct
- Recommended Journals: American
Nurses Publishing, Minority Nurse, American Journal of Public Health
▪ Contemporary
Women's Issues
- Periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets,
and pamphlets covering global information on women.
- Topics covered range from human rights to health
and reproductive issues to legal information.
- Recommended Journals: Managed
Healthcare Executive, Health Data Management
▪ JSTOR
(the Scholarly Journal Archive)
- Ecology, Economics, Finance, History, Mathematics,
Political Science, and Population Studies.
- Recommended Journals: Journal
of Health and Social Behavior, Journal of Black Studies, Social Forces
▪ MUSE
(Art and Humanities, Social Science)
- Covers 200 quality journal titles from some 30
scholarly publishers
- Recommended Journals: Journal
of Health Politics, Policy and Law, A Journal of Native American Studies
▪ ProQuest
Direct
- National Newspapers and Research Library Newspapers
- ProQuest Education Journals
- ProQuest Psychology Journals
- ProQuest Nursing Journals:
CINAHL® Database with Full TextTM
- Recommended Journals: The
Nation's Health, American Journal of Public Health
▪ ScienceDirect
- A web database of Elsevier Science journals
- Recommended Journals: The
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Annals of Epidemiology
▪ Abstract and Bibliography
Resources
▪ Health
& Safety Science Abstracts
- Public health and safety
- Industrial hygiene
▪ History
of Science, Technology and Medicine
- Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science
- Current Bibliography in the History of Technology
(Technology and Culture)
- Bibliografia Italiana di Storia della Scienza
- Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding
of Medicine
▪ Web
of Science
- Science Citation Index
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- the Arts & Humanities Citation Index
▪ News and Statistical
Resources (Sorted by Alphabet)
▪ Lexis-Nexis Academic
Search Page
- Statistical
Search: Geographic, Demographic, Economic and Frequency of Data options
- Business,
Legal, Medical and Reference News information
- Recommended News Categories: Federal Document
Clearing House Congressional Testimony, PR Newsire
▪ NTIS
(National Technical Information Service)
- The largest central resource for government-funded
information available today
-
Health and Safety Collection
SELECTED WEB RESOURCES
■ FEDERAL MINORITY HEALTH
OFFICES
▪ Administration
for Children and Families
- Administration
for Native Americans
- Office
of Family Assistance: Division of Tribal TANF Management
- Head
Start Bureau
- Office
of Refugee Resettlement
▪ Administration
on Aging
- Programs
and resources for Native American elders
▪ Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Información
en español
- Minority
health programs and information
▪ Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Cooperative
Program/Minority Health Profession Foundation
▪ Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
- CDC
en Espanol
- Office
of Minority Health
- Office
of Women's Health
▪ Center
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Center
for Medicare & Medicaid Services: American Indian/Alaska Native Center
▪ Food
and Drug Administration
- Office
of Women's Health
▪ Health
Resources and Services Administration
- Asian
American and Pacific Islander Initiative
- Bureau
of Primary Health Care
- Immigration
Health Services
▪ Indian
Health Services
▪ National
Institutes of Health
- Division
of Minority Opportunities in Research
- National
Cancer Institute
∙ CRCHD Special
Populations Networks
- National
Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
- National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
∙ Minority
Health Programs
∙ Minority
Populations Gateway
∙ Sickle
Cell Disease Advisory Committee
- National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
∙ Minority
Programs
- National
Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
∙ Statistics
and Data
- National
Institute on Drug Abuse
∙ NIDA InfoFacts: NIDA's Opportunities for Special Populations
- National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
∙ Health
Disparities Research
- National
Institute of General Medical Sciences
∙ Minority
Programs
- National
Institute of Mental Health
∙ NIMH
Publications: Spanish
∙ Office
For Special Populations
- National
Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- NIH
Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research
▪ Office
of Minority Health
▪ Office
of Research on Women's Health
▪ Office
on Women's Health
▪ Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)
- Refugee
Mental Health Links
■ NATIONAL LIBRARY OF
MEDICINE
▪ HSRR
(Health Services and Sciences Research Resources)
- Research datasets and instruments/indices employed in
Health Services Research
- Behavioral and Social Sciences with links to Pub-Med
▪ HSTAT
(Health Services/Technology Assessment Text)
- Clinical Practice Guidelines
- Technical Assessments
- Health Information
▪ Medlineplus®
- Consumer Health Information Site
- Health Topics, Drug Information, Medical Encyclopedia,
Dictionary, News and Other Resources
▪ National
Library of Medicine Gateway
- A Web interface that searches multiple NLM retrieval systems
▪ Pub-Med
- Entrez Journals database to search for a journal
- Recommended Journal: Ethnicity
& Health. (Ethn Health)
∙ EBSCO (EBSCOPub)
1996,
1997,
1998,
1999,
2000,
2001,
2002,
2003,
2004,
2005,
2006,
2007
▪ Pub-Med
Central
- A digital archive of Life Sciences Journal Literature
■ STATISTICS and DATA SETS
▪ Community Health Database: Southeastern PA
▪ Minority Health in State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation)
▪ National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
▪ PA Department of Health: Bureau of Health Statistics and Research
▪ U.S. Census Bureau Subjects A to Z
■ POLICY ISSUES
▪ Minority
Health (Kaiser Family Foundation)
▪ Minority
Health: Racial Disparities (Kaiser Family Foundation)
▪ NIH/NHLBI:
Federal Legislation
▪ Race,
HealthCare and the Law
▪ Unequal
Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Comments and suggestions
to: Nancy Henry
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