Cultural
issues are important to consider in any health care setting.
Rural health is no exception; in fact cultural issues may even be a
more important issue when considering cultural health.
In Texas, many rural areas are comprised of several cultures,
predominately Mexican American and White.
Differences in cultural ideals create situations where medicine may
need to be approached somewhat differently depending on what culture the
patient represents, hence knowledge of these cultures is paramount.
With
this in mind, the resources that were chosen to be posted on this Rural
Resource website were selected using knowledge of barriers and cultural
differences with respect to a Public Health and Medical background.
Several search engines and meta search engines were utilized to
find resources for cultural issues that would be pertinent to a Rural
Health setting. These
resources include demographic information, differences in outlook upon
medicine by different cultures, and articles related to methods used by
other areas in the country and world to deal with cultural issues in rural
health. Most of the resources
are dynamic, meaning they update themselves, so the links to them will not
become outdated.
- United
States Government Census Bureau Website
An excellent resource for looking at
demographic information of various regions of the United States.
The information can be retrieved with respect to a wide range
and combination of various demographics.
www.census.gov [Home Page]
http://tier2.census.gov/dbappweb.htm
[CenStats area of US Census website which provides links to demographic
searches by county, zip code, occupation, census tracts, federal
expenditures, etc.]
http://tier2.census.gov/usac/index.html
[Another area of CenStats that allows for demographic data searches by
state and county.]
- Racial
and Cultural Issue page of the National Health Law website
This page addresses issues in Immigrant
Health, Linguistic and Cultural Access, Minority Health, and Relevant
Books.
http://www.healthlaw.org/race.shtml
http://www.healthlaw.org/pubs/199910HAInternet4i.html
Internet
resources concerning cultural disparities in health issues.]
-
The
Rural Health WebRing
Comprised
of sites dedicated to rural health and cultural rural health issues -
it includes government, educational, and health agency websites from
around the world.
http://www.rural-health.org.au/
- National
Library of Medicine / Network of the National Library of Medicine
Planning and Evaluating Information
Outreach Among Minority Communities: Model Development Based on Native
Americans in the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.nnlm.nlm.nih.gov/pnr/eval/baldwin.html
- Queensland
University of Technology School of Public Health
Article on Cross Cultural Public Health
Issues - “When
it comes to health care, there are strong similarities between
cultural problems experienced by indigenous communities and those from
non-English speaking backgrounds…”
http://www.hlth.qut.edu.au/ph/news/riley.htm
http://www.tdh.texas.gov/bvs/health.htm
[TDPH Health Statistics links page.]
- Center
For Disease Control Website
CDC (Center for Disease Control) WONDER
is an easy-to-use system that provides a single point of access to a
wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health
data.
http://wonder.cdc.gov/
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
[Center for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS) home page.]
http://search.cdc.gov/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe
[Links found by a search on NCHS search page to 3311 documents related to
cultural health issues.]
- National
Rural Health Association Home Page
A national membership
organization whose mission is to improve the health and health care of
rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through
advocacy, communications, education and research.
http://www.nrharural.org/
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