Clinical Topics Index

Asthma

• Asthma Cultural Profiles
  Amharic   Cambodian     Somali    Tigrean

Cancer

• Breast Cancer in Asian Women

Death

• Death: The Cross Cultural Context

Depression

• Somali Depression Profile

Dermatology

• The Dermatology of Pigmented Skin
• Influence of Culture and Pigment on Skin Conditions in Children: A self-teaching module

Diabetes

• Diabetes in Cambodian Americans:  Diabetes Education
• Process and Practice of Cross Cultural Diabetes Education: Teaching Vietnamese and Ethiopian Patients
• Multicultural Diabetes Materials

Herbal Medicine

• Herb-Drug Interactions 

Interpreted Visits

• Guidelines for Interpreted Visits

Mental Health

• Mental Health Advance Directives
  Information from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services about writing a mental health directive. Brochures available in English, Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, Laotian, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese.
• Mental Health Issues of Resettled Refugees
• Necessary Steps to Neuropsycholocial Evaluation
• Somali Mental Health
  Overview of acculturation and challenges facing Somali refugees and immigrants in Minnesota, and cultural concepts of mental illness. 
  Available formats: Word Document  | PDF

Nutrition

• Report on Somali Diet: Common Dietary Beliefs and Practices of Somali Participants in WIC Nutrition Education Groups
  Available formats: Word Document | PDF
  
  
• Group Nutrition Education for Non-English Speaking WIC Families
  A poster presentation of project using group meetings for WIC families who speak Somali, Spanish and English. Poster by Aliya Haq, MS, RD, CD, Harborview Medical Center, WIC Program, Seattle, WA
  
  
• Nutrition and Fasting
  Cambodian Culture | Somali Culture | Vietnamese Culture
  
  
• Asian Language pamphlets on Nutrition  
  The Center for Weight and Health based at Univerity of California Berkeley, along with other collaborators, have produced some culturally sensitive and relevant educational materials about health for immigrant families. Materials are available for download in Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Vietnamese, and English. 

Peripartum and Infant Care Issues

• Peripartum and Infant Care Issues

PostPartum Practices

• Postpartum Practices among Chinese and Vietnamese Women
  Poster absract by Hue C. Thai, Univ of WA School of Medicine, 2005;
  Last reviewed June 2008.   1 page, PDF.



• Postpartum Practices among Vietnamese and Chinese Patients
  Handout for providers;Hue C. Thai, Univ of WA,  2 pages, PDF.

Refugee Health

• Refugee and Immigrant Health Care
  Outline presentation addressing some specific issues related to health care for immigrants, by Chris Carlsten, MD, Univ. of Washington.

Traditional Medicine

• Traditional Vietnamese Medicine: Historical Perspective and Current Usage
  A brief history of the development of TVM and its influences particularly by Southern China, written by Hue C. Thai, ND, MSA.

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Resource Page
• Stamping Out TB: A Community-Based Outreach Worker Model for TB Prevention
  A Slideshow about a project using bilingual and bicultural outreach workers in a project at Harborview Medical Center.
• Somali Tuberculosis Patient Educaton
  A Somali language audio recording to be used as an educational took to introduce the topic of Tuberculosis.
• Evaluation of Tuberculosis Program Services for Burmese Refugees in Thailand Resettling to the US
  , a 58 page Report