Health Studies: Global & Multicultural Health Resources

Global Health

World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations specialized agency for health. This site includes a listing of health topics, countries, publications, data and statistics, and a listing of WHO web sites. Also available in Spanish.
MedLine Plus: International Health
Global Health Council
Gates Foundation - What We Do page
From the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Health.gov
From the Health and Human Services: Office of Global Health.
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
An independent global health research center at the UW that provides comparable measurements of the world's health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them.
Partners in Health
World Maps
UT, Perry-Castañeda Library.
Worldmapper
Social spatial representations from the Univ. of Sheffield. Data used is from the United Nations.
Gapminder
An organization that has animated global statistics. You can view country data within the global graphs and maps. Fun!

Ethnomed: Ethnic Medicine Guide
A joint project of UW Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program. Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links
A great page from the New Mexico State University Library. See the Religious Groups, Ethnic Groups, and other populations.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP)
A nonprofit organization based in Seattle. See the Resource Guides and Publications pages.
Culture, Language, and Health Literacy
From the Health Resources & Services Administration.