Search Resources (English): Cross cultural care
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- Cultural competence for registered nurses
- http://www.cwhn.ca/node/39580
- Published: 2002
Details recommendations to ensure appropriate cultural competence nursing care for Aboriginal peoples.
(See Details) - The health of native women in Quebec
- http://www.cwhn.ca/node/39578
- Published: 2002
Describes findings and highlights of work done by the Quebec Native Women to improve the health of Aboriginal women, their children and their communities.
(See Details) - Promoting culturally competent care
- http://www.cna-aiic.ca/CNA/documents/pdf/publications/PS73_Promoting_Culturally_Competent_Care_March_2004_e.pdf
- Published: 2004
States that to provide the best possible patient outcomes, nurses must provide culturally competent care. Defines cultural competence as the application of knowledge, skills, attitudes and personal attributes required by nurses to provide appropriate care and services in relation to the cultural characteristics of their clients. Views the responsibility for supporting culturally competent care as being shared among individuals, professional associations, regulatory bodies, health services delivery organizations, educational institutions and governments.
(See Details) - What's "normal": female genital mutilation, psychology, and body image
- Published: 2004
Focuses on the psychological effects of female genital mutilation (FGM) through the example of a patient who had undergone the procedure in childhood and now felt that her closed appearance was "normal" and that to be opened would be "abnormal." Argues that Western advocates must educate themselves about the various cultural forces that lead to FGM in order to help women who have undergone the procedure heal psychologically, thereby breaking the pattern of abuse from generation to generation.
- The right to equal treatment: an annotated bibliography of studies on racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, their causes,
- Published: 2003
Presents an annotated bibliography of key articles in the peer-reviewed literature on racial and ethnic disparities in medical care, organized into 21 disease or clinical categories. Includes: general medical care; cardiovascular disease; cerebrovascular disease; cancer; asthma; renal disease and transplantation; organ donation; HIV/AIDS; maternal and child health; ophthalmic disease; mental health; diabetes; emergency care; EOL care and DNR orders; hip repair; prevention; C-section and hysterectomy; clinical trials; research methods; patient trust; and, cultural competency.
- Building collaborative communities for cross cultural cancer research & care
- Published: 2004
Presents the proceedings and recommendations from the First National Workshop on Cross Cultural Cancer Research and Care held in Vancouver, British Columbia, February 20th and 21st, 2004.
- A guide for health professionals working with Aboriginal peoples: cross cultural understanding
- www.sogc.org/guidelines/public/100E-PS4-February2001.pdf
- Published: 2001
Presents a series of recommendations on cross cultural understanding and health care for health professionals.
(See Details) - The toolbox: culturally competent organisations, services and care pathways
- Explores the characteristics and structures that combine to form a culturally competent organization, service or care pathway. Contains: an introduction to the toolbox including a review of the literature on Culturally Competent Services; a report of the process involved in developing the toolkit that outlines how the perceptions of professionals and communities towards cultural competency have been researched, and a collection of file dividers that point to the useful national and local documents conerned with ethnicity and cultural competency one needs to have access to e.g. local strategy on ethnicity, local and national ethnic monitoring data, and a summary of the MacPherson Report.Published: 2000
- Unequal treatment: confronting racial and ethnic disparities in health care
- http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10260.html
- Explores how persons of colour experience the health care environment. Examines how disparities in treatment may arise in health care systems and looks at aspects of the clinical encounter that may contribute to such disparities. Highlights the potential of cross-cultural education to improve provider-patient communication and offers a detailed look at how to integrate cross-cultural learning within the health professions. (See Details)Published: 2003
- Setting the agenda for research on cultural competence in health care
- http://www.omhrc.gov/cultural/cultural18.htm
- Looks at the question of what impact cultural competence interventions have on the delivery of health care and health outcomes, and investigates the opportunities and barriers that affect how further research in this area might be conducted. (See Details)Published: 2004
