Resources

Key Concepts in Cultural Competency

National Center for Cultural Competence - Conceptual

Frameworks/Models, Guiding Values and Principles

http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/foundations/frameworks.html

Transcultural Nursing:  Basic Concepts and Case Studies

http://www.culturediversity.org/basic.htm

Nursing Models for Culturally Competent Care

Campinha-Bacote Model of Cultural Competence

http://www.transculturalcare.net/

Giger and Davidhizar's Model of Transcultural Nursing

(Adapted in Table 2-2 on the SAMHSA's National Mental Health and

Information Center website, "Developing Cultural Competence in

Disaster Mental Health Programs:  Guiding Principles and

Recommendations.")  A complete description of the model can be

found in Transcultural Nursing: Assessment and Intervention

(Giger and Davidhizar, 1999).

http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/publications/allpubs/SMA03-3828/sectiontwo.asp

Leininger's Cultural Care Diversity and Universality

Theory/Model and Sunrise Model

http://www.tcns.org  Sunrise Model Only.  Link to www.madeleine-leininger.com site.

http://www.madeleine-leininger.com/en/index.shtml  Fee-based, $5.00/3 months access.

Purnell's Model of Transcultural Health Care

http://www.salisbury.edu/nursing/haitiancultcomp/purnellsmodel.htm

http://www.nursingtheory.net/mr_culturalcompetence.html

Other Useful Links

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

http://www.ahcpr.gov

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) - Enriching

Medicine Through Diversity

http://www.amsa.org/div/

Baylor College of Medicine Multicultural Patient Care

http://www.bcm.edu/mpc/home.html

Center For Cross-Cultural Research - Western Washington

University

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~culture

Center for Healthy Families and Culture Diversity - Robert

Wood Johnson Medical School

http://www2.umdnj.edu/fmedweb/chfcd/INDEX.HTM

Cross Cultural Health Care Program - Trainers

http://www.xculture.org

Culture Clues - University of Washington Medical Center

http://depts.washington.edu/pfes/CultureClues.htm

Cultural Competence Resources - University at Buffalo

Health Sciences Library - State University of New York

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/resources/guides/culturalcompetence.html

Cultural Competency Division - University of Michigan

http://www.med.umich.edu/multicultural/ccp/index.htm

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) -

National Standards (Office of Minority Health - USDHHS)

http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=15

CulturedMed - State University of New York Institute of

Technology

https://culturedmed.sunyit.edu/index.php/home

Ethnomed - University of Washington, Harborview Medical

Center

http://ethnomed.org/

Health Resources and Services Administration (USDHHS) -

Cultural Competence Resources for Health Care Providers

http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/

MedlinePlus - Populations

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html

National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB

Prevention - Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (CDC)

- Ethnographic Guides

http://www.cdc.gov/tb/EthnographicGuides/

Office of Minority Health (USDHHS)

http://www.omhrc.gov/

Think Cultural Health

http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/

This website is maintained by Margaret L. Danowski, Madonna University.  Please send comments or suggestions to mdanowski@madonna.edu .  Last updated 5-11-09.