Cultural Competency | Health Beliefs | Health Literacy
Health Literacy Assessment Tools | Cross Cultural Communication

Cultural Competency

• Dictionary of Patients' Spiritual & Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals
  It contains in user-friendly form info about religions and cultures.
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Health Beliefs

• Arizona Department of Health Services: Chronic Disease Disparities in Arizona:
  From Awareness to Action, April 13-15, 2005, Focus Group Summary
  Focus groups were conducted around the state with key informants. Focus groups from September 2004 to February 2005 in various communities: Cottonwood; Bisbee; Yuma; Phoenix - Native American Community Health Center and Tanner Community Development Corporation (TCDC); Tucson - Wingspan and South Tucson. Feedback was solicited around health issue, beliefs and treatment of illness, prevention and other related concerns with participant recommendations. For more details see ADHS website.
• Cross Cultural Health Care Program: Voices from the Community Series
• The Providers Guide to Quality and Culture: Common Health Problems in Selected Minority, Ethnic and Culture Groups
• Diversity Rx is developing handbooks for providers that describe the population characteristics, health beliefs, and specific health needs of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans and other populations comprising the health plan membership.
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Health Literacy

• Health literacy curriculum: Staying Healthy
  The curriculum, developed by the Florida Literacy Coalition, includes both a student and teacher guides and covers topics such as the American health care system, visiting a doctor, medicines, nutrition, chronic diseases, etc. It is written at a 4th and 5th grade reading level and is best when used for high beginning/low intermediate ESOL learners and above.
• Health literacy e-course
  It helps use plain language for health research.
• Health Literacy Online
  It includes research-based recommendations and examples to help you create clear, user-friendly health Web sites.
• Health literacy video
• Toolkit for Making Written Material Clear and Effective
  The Toolkit gives tips for taking a reader-centered approach to developing and testing the materials; guidelines for writing, graphic design, and culturally appropriate translation from English into other languages, with discussion and examples that show how to use the guidelines; step-by-step guidance on how to test the materials with readers, emphasizing quick and low cost ways to get the most meaningful feedback directly from readers and use it to make improvements; cautions about the uses and misuses of readability formulas to assess written material; and things to know if the writing material is for older adults.
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Health Literacy Assessment Tools

• Health Literacy and Adolescents: An Agenda for the Future, 2010
  This white paper discusses the impact of low health literacy on adolescents' ability to successfully navigate the health care delivery system, and calls for a research agenda to help shape the creation of new policies, programs and tools to promote health literacy.
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Cross Cultural Communication

• Cultural Competence Practice and Training Overview
• L-E-A-R-N Model of Cross Cultural Encounter Guidelines for Health Practitioners
• Eliciting health beliefs in Clinical Encounters
• Strategies for Clinical Cultural Assessment and Interactions
• Guidelines for teaching culturally appropriate health care published
• Enhancing Culturally Competent Care to Specific
• Understanding Cross-Cultural Communication videos
• The Commonwealth Fund, Article: Enhancing Cross-Cultural Communication by Telling Patient's Stories
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