MGH Guides: Culturally Competent and Effective Healthcare: Cultural Knowledge

EthnoMed Cultural Profiles
EthnoMed is Harborview Medical Center's ethnic medicine website containing medical and cultural information about immigrant and refugee groups.
Office of Minority Health Knowledge Center
Search the OMH Library for reports on specific cultures, ethnicity, and races, as well as specific health conditions.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
Tools to promote culturally and linguistically appropriate services from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Culture, Language and Health Literacy
Free online resources for healthcare practitioners working with minority and special populations.
ECHO Cultural Trainings
The information presented in the toolkit provides working knowledge and a basic foundation on specific cultures. Resources are focused on groups specific to Minnesota, but offer strong groundwork for cultural understanding.
Culture Care Connection
Several tools to help providers increase their cultural knowledge, including cultural profiles.
EthnoMed Cross-Cultural Health
A collection of resources and information related to cross-cultural and refugee health topics, including refugee screening.
CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Online LGBTQ+ Resources

Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community: A Field Guide
This field guide from The Joint Commission urges U.S. hospitals to create a more welcoming, safe and inclusive environment that contributes to improved health care quality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients and their families. The Field Guide features a compilation of strategies, practice examples, resources, and testimonials designed to help hospitals in their efforts to improve communication and provide more patient-centered care to their LGBT patients.
National LGBT Health Education Center
The National LGBT Health Education Center provides educational programs, resources, and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

From our Collection

The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, 2nd ed. by Harvey J. Makadon; Kenneth H. Mayer; Jennifer Potter; Hilary Goldhammer; American College of Physicians (2003- ) Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: HEALTHCARE DELIVERY FENWAY
ISBN: 9781938921001
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual and Gender Diversity, 3rd ed. by Michele J. Eliason, Michele J; Peggy L. Chinn
Publication Date: 2018
LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care by Kimberly D. Acquaviva
Call Number: E-book. Click title to access.
ISBN: 9781939594143
Publication Date: 2017-05-23
United in anger: A history of act up [DVD/streaming] by Jim Hubbard
Call Number: DIV LGBT UNITED
Publication Date: 2012
Available as DVD or for streaming. Click title for streaming access.

UNITED IN ANGER is the first feature-length documentary about how ACT UP, a small group of men and women of all races and classes, came together to change the world and save each other's lives.

Diverse Communities and Alzheimer's
Resources from the Alzheimers's Association for diverse cultures and in multiple languages.

Dementia, culture, and ethnicity: Issues for all by Julia Botsford (Editor)
Call Number: DIV CULHU DEMENTIA
ISBN: 9781849054867
Publication Date: 2015
With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the experience of dementia and on the provision of support and services, both in general terms and in relation to specific minority ethnic communities.
Culture, Brain, and Analgesia by Mario Incayawar; Knox H. Todd
ISBN: 9780199768875
Publication Date: 2012-12-19
e-Book. Click title for access.

Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs by Josefina J. Card; Julie Solomon; Jacqueline Berman
ISBN: 9780826115171
Publication Date: 2007-11-01
A comprehensive guide to creating, implementing, and evaluating culturally competent HIV prevention programs. (e-Book. Click title for access.)
Contraceptives: Predictors of Use, Role of Cultural Attitudes & Practices & Levels of Effectiveness by Louis Bourgois
ISBN: 9781629486079
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
e-Book. Click title for access.

The Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health by Ranna Parekh (Editor)
ISBN: 9781461489177
Publication Date: 2013-11-23
Prominent researchers and clinicians examine the cultural and cross-cultural mental health issues of Native American, Latino, Asian, African American, Middle Eastern, Refugee and LGBQT communities. (e-Book. Click title for access.)
Clinical Manual of Cultural Psychiatry by Russell F. Lim (Editor)
ISBN: 9781585624393
Publication Date: 2014-08-14
e-Book. Click title for access.