BOOKS - REFERENCE SECTION

CROSS CULTURAL HEALTH EDUCATION

362.10425 Helman, Cecil
H47c4 Culture, Health and Illness
This book emphasizes the role that medical anthropology can play in the understanding of health problems in a variety of cultural and social settings, and how to prevent and deal with them. Includes information on a large number of topics, including cross-cultural perspectives on the human life cycle, patients’ narratives of illness and suffering, children’s perceptions of illness and medical care, social and psychological effects of medical technology, and more.

362.10425 Salimbene, Suzanne
S16w What Language does your patient hurt in?: A practical guide to culturally competent patient care/ Suzanne Salimbene. Amherst , MA : Diversity Resources, c2000
In this easy to read pocket manual, Suzanne Salimbene provides health care providers with an overview of the cultural health practices, communication styles and cultural beliefs of African American, American Indian, Asian, Eastern European, Hispanic and Middle Eastern communities. She summarizes folk, religious and spiritual beliefs about health and illness that may affect care and treatment and describes traditional folk healing systems that may have to be taken into account in designing a treatment plan.

306.461 Fadiman, Anne,
F14s The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong Child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures/Anne Fadiman. New York : Noonday Press, 1998.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital and a refugee family from Laos over the care of a Hmong child diagnosed with epilepsy. The parents and the doctors both wanted what was best for the child, but lack of understanding between them led to tragedy.

362.1 Luckman, Joan
L94t Transcultural Communication In Health Care
In today’s complex health care workplace health care professionals must be able to communicate with clients who speak different languages, and come from distinct cultural backgrounds. They must be able to understand and show compassion for the different cultures, lifestyles, traditions, and expectations they will encounter. The goal of this practical book is to help health care professionals expand their perspectives and to develop the skills and techniques needed to work and communicate effectively with clients and other health care professionals in a multicultural environment.

362.10425 Wells, Shirley A., and Black, Roxie M.
W45cCultural Competency for Health Professionals
This book will help the practitioner and student gain perspective on the cultural diversity of clients in the health care environment. It explores the scope of diversity, the effects of inequality, the framework for cultural competency and information on integrating cultures. It also includes reflections from practitioners who have achieved cultural competency in their practices.

ELDERLY CARE

618.9703 Squires, Amanda and Hastings, Margaret (editors)
R34o3 Rehabilitation of the Older Person
With the increasing numbers and expectations of older people, this is an essential text for healthcare practitioners and students involved in the field of rehabilitation. The purpose of the book is to bring together the skills and experience of experts in several fields to provide a primer for those needing knowledge of how to manage older people in whatever environment or specialty they present. The continuing transformation of health and social care delivery worldwide, resulting from changing user and provider expectations, influencing government policies, is altering approaches to and delivery of rehabilitation services. These current and future changes are addressed by each discipline, using the United Kingdom as an example. These changes include the switch in emphasis from patient to person, from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary efforts, the change in the style of rehabilitation from paternalism to partnership, and the change from working with different professionals to professionals working together. Contributors include specialists in the fields of nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, dietetics, social work, and speech and language therapy.

ETHNIC DISEASES

616.H43r Brennfleck Shannon, Joyce
E Ethnic Diseases Sourcebook
The Ethnic Diseases Sourcebook provides health information about genetic and chronic diseases that affect ethnic and racial minorities in the U.S. Also included are general health indicators and behaviors, genetic testing, mental health concerns, women’s health, preventive health care services and tips for improving health.

BOOKS - GENERAL SECTION

ASSESSMENT

305.8 Simpson Epps & Associates
S61c Cultural Audit Report prepared for Northwestern Health Sciences University
This is the first phase of the institutional change design proposed by Simpson Epps & Associates. Findings of the cultural audit reflect the input from focus groups, executive briefings, a survey of institutional documents and a survey instrument from administration, students, staff and faculty. Reported in the form of strengths and challenges, a preliminary finding revealed that organizational challenges within Northwestern Health Sciences University centered around integrating a diversity study with the change process currently in place.

CROSS CULTURAL HEALTH EDUCATION

306.461 Caring Across Cultures: The Providers Guide to Cross-Cultural Health
C27a2 Caring across cultures is a manual which examines the role of culture in health and provides the reader with tools to function more effectively with culturally diverse patients. Included in the manual are issues in interpreting, cross cultural mental health, spirituality and health across cultures and Minnesota community profiles. Highlighted Minnesota community profiles are: Albanian, Bosnian, European American, Hmong, Jewish American, Nuer, Russian Jewish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

616.855 Battle, Delores E.,
C73d3 Communication Disorders in Multicultural Populations, Third Edition / Dolores E. Battle. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002.
If clinicians want to improve the quality of care to multicultural clients, this book is an excellent resource. This third edition of the bestselling previous editions provides a framework for understanding the many issues related to the provision of clinical services in multicultural populations. Divided into two parts, Part I explores the major cultural groups in the United States and how cultural and linguistic diversity impacts the assessment and treatment of communication disorders. Part II focuses on bilingual language development and specific communication disorders culturally and linguistically diverse populations, techniques for multicultural assessment and intervention, and guidance for research. Chapters are written by leading experts in communication disorders in diverse cultures.

174.2 Veatch, Robert E.,
C95p2 Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Second Edition / Robert E. Veatch. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2000.
An anthology of the latest and best readings on medical ethics of as many major religious, philosophical, and medical traditions that are available today. The book starts with the definitive twentieth century analysis of the Hippocratic oath and then shows how most religious and philosophical traditions differ from the ethical commitments contained in that classic document. The book contains analyses of the Hippocratic Oath as it relates to Christian religions, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, philosophies of China, political liberalism, Western law and philosophy, and African and African-American medical ethics.

362.4048 Edited by Leavitt, Ronnie Linda
C95c Cross-cultural Rehabilitation: An International Perspective
In today’s multicultural society, an improved understanding of people from varying cultural and ethnic groups has become increasingly significant to those working in the field of rehabilitation. The need to have an awareness of and sensitivity toward the issues involved is now essential to the effective day-to-day practice of this group of professionals. Cross-cultural Rehabilitation has been written specifically to help meet this need.

362.10425 Spector, Rachel E.
S74c2 Cultural Care: Guides to Heritage Assessment and Health Traditions/ Rachel E.Spector
Upper Saddle River , N.J. : Prentice Hall Health, c2000]
Description: There are countless conflicts that occur in the health care delivery arenas predicated on cultural misunderstandings. The necessity to provide CulturalCare – professional health care that is culturally sensitive, culturally appropriate, and culturally competent – is essential as we enter the new millennium, and this demands that providers must be able to assess and interpret the given patient’s health beliefs and practices. CulturalCare alters the perspective of health-care delivery as it enables the provider to understand, from a cultural perspective, the manifestations of the patient’s health-care beliefs and practices.

DIVERISTY AWARENESS

306 Diversity food for thought / Coastal Human Resources.
D61f Virginia Beach, Va.: Coastal Training Technologies Corp., c1997.

HEALTH DISPARITIES

362.1 Evans, Timothy; Whitehead, Margaret; Diderichsen, Finn; Bhuiya, Abbas; and Wirth, Meg
C431 Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action
In their introductory chapters, the editors distinguish health inequality — differences in disease rates among social groups — from health inequity, defined as those inequalities that are unfair. A large part of the book is devoted to analyses of health inequalities in specific countries. Although the quantitative analyses, particularly in the case of developed countries such as the United States, Britain, and Sweden, cover familiar ground, chapters devoted to South Africa, Tanzania, Russia, China, and Bangladesh, among others, give a broad international perspective and a variety of methods that derive, in part, from a lack of population-based data on morbidity and mortality. The chapter on Japan provides historical perspectives on social, economic, and health indicators for that nation as well as comparisons with other countries. Together, the country-specific chapters, although not intended to be comprehensive, provide an interesting sampling of research on health inequalities around the world.