• Bibliographies on race and racism
  Links to three bibliographies on race and racism, compiled by Harvard School of Public Health.
  Harvard School of Public Health

• Charles Kemp’s Gateway Page
  Includes sections with profiles of several refugee/immigrant groups, Asian and Hispanic health pages, and Community Resources in the Dallas, Texas region. Site sponsored by Baylor School of Nursing, Texas Department of Health, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Vietnamese Mutual Assistance Association.
  Baylor School of Nursing

• Cultural Competence Home Page of the National Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Association

• Cultural Competency Assessment Tools
  This is a bibliography of cultural competency assessment tools.
  The Cross Cultural Health Care Program

• Cultural Competency Home Page of the Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice (CECP)
  The CECP works to improving services to children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems.

• Cultural Diversity in Nursing Practice Position Statement
  As adopted by American Nursing Association.

• Diversity Central
  The focus is on diversity and cross-cultural management for business.
  Cultural Diversity at Work

• Multicultural Resources: Sources & Tools for Academic Research
  Schaffer Library at Union College

• Opening Doors: Reducing Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care
  A national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
  Opening Doors supports service and research projects to identify and
  break down nonfinancial, culturally-based barriers to health care.
  National Program Office c/o Hospital for Sick Children Health System
  1025 Conneticut Avenue, NW, Suite 1100
  Washington, DC 20036
  Phone:    202-974-4694
  FAX;       202-974-4695
   
  http://www.rwjf.org/reports/npreports/opendoorse.htm

• Resource Bibliography in Cross Cultural Nursing
  Resource Bibliography in Cross Cultural Nursing, on EthnoMed’s website, prepared by Noel Chrisman and Melinda Mich.
  EthnoMed
  Seattle, WA

• Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) – Recommendations for national standards and a national public comment process
  This is part of the Office of Minority Health’s web site.

• Statistical Resources on the Web: Demographics and Housing
  University of Michigan

• The Center for Cross-Cultural Health (CCCH)
  Education, training, research, and consulting in cross-cultural health.
  The Center for Cross-Cultural Health
  1313 S.E. Fifth Street, Suite 100B
  Minneapolis, MN 55414
  (612) 379-3573, Tel.
  (612) 623-3002, Fax.

• American Dental Association: http://www.ada.org

• American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry: http://www.aapd.org

• Hispanic Dental Association: http://www.hdassoc.org

• National Center on Cultural Competence: Disparities in Oral Health: http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/topic3.html

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Project on Cultural Competency in Dentistry: http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/022052s.htm

• Instruments of Piece (Blending of Anthropology & Dentistry): http://www.anthrotech.com/~iop/

• WHO Oral Health Country/ Area Profile Programme:
  http://www.whocollab.od.mah.se/index.html

• The Transcultural Oral Health Unit:
  http://www.eastman.ucl.ac.uk/depart/toh/

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