Promotes culturally competent health care for refugees and immigrants. Based at the State University of New York Institute of Technology library, this web site focuses on the diverse health beliefs of various cultures as well as cross-cultural interactions between health care providers and patients. The bibliographic entries list publications addressing groups from the following regions or ethnic backgrounds: Afghanistan, Africa, Arab, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Hispanic, Hmong, Puerto Rico, Russia, and Vietnam. The site also can be searched by such topic headings as: cultural competency; death and dying; dental care; domestic violence; ethnography; food; hospice; international; medical interpreters; mental health; pharmacology; traditional medicine; transcultural nursing; and woman and child health. Also included on the site are: (1) dictionaries and glossaries; (2) links to other culture and health web sites, country-specific web sites, and libraries with ethnic collections; (3) refugee and immigrant health databases; (4) information about refugee and immigrant health policy; (5) foreign language health materials; (6) listings of relevant organizations, offices, and resettlement agencies; and (7) other statistics on refugees and immigrants.
