Nursing Research Guide: Global Health, Multicultural Health Resources

Global Health

World Health Organization (WHO) | Español The United Nations specialized agency for health. This site includes a listing of health topics, countries, publications, and a listing of WHO programmes and projects.
MedLine Plus: International Health
Health News: Harvard's School of Public Health supplies this weekly digest of health news.
Global Health Council
Office of Global Affairs from the USD of Health and Human Services.
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!

Global Health Data Exchange (GHDx)
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's (IHME) catalog of the world's health and demographic data. Research population census data, surveys, registries, indicators and estimates, administrative health data, and financial data related to health.

Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links. A great page from the New Mexico State University Library. See the Religious Groups, Ethnic Groups, and other populations.
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.
Multi-Cultural Resources for Health Information from the National Library of Medicine.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP). A nonprofit organization based in Seattle. See the Resource Guides and Publications pages.