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EthnoMed
Ethnic Medicine Information from Harborview Medical Center
http://ethnomed.org/

 

Sponsor:

Harbor View Medical Center (Seattle, WA)

Mission:

The Ethnomed site contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the United States, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

Focus:

Recent immigrant health care
Cultural beliefs
Medial issues

Resources:

Culture specific web pages
    Amharic
    Cambodian
    Chinese
    Eritrean
    Ethopian
    Mexican
    Oromo
    Somalia
    Tigrean
    Vietnamese
    Other groups
Voices of the Community (interviews with immigrants from various cultures)
Cultural Competence:  A Journey (13 essays describe cultural competence)
Clinical topics
    Symptoms
    Health and Illness
    References and further readings
Annotated Resources
    Books, videos, etc.
    Clinical pearls
    Featured articles
Web links (no categorical orrangement)

Last Update:

not given

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