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 Affairsfrom 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.

The Office of Minority Health: The Office of Minority Health is dedicated to improving the health status of racial and ethnic minorities, eliminating health disparities, and achieving health equity in the United States.
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities: This NIH institute has a mission to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities.
Ethnomed: 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.
Cross Cultural Health Care Program (CCHCP). A nonprofit organization based in Seattle.
Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links. A great page from the New Mexico State University Library. See the Religious Groups, Ethnic Groups, and other populations.