SW 3200: Cultural Diversity: Health

Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns. On this page, you'll find links to health issues that affect Hispanic Americans. Includes research, journal articles, statistics, news, etc.

Selected data on specific diseases or conditions.

These profiles provide detailed demographic, language fluency (where relevant), education, economic, insurance coverage and health status information, as well as full census reports.
Includes African American Health, American Indian Health, Asian American Health, Hispanic/Latino Health, and Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Health.

EXCELLENT source of info

Multicultural Competency
Nationwide, human service systems struggle to represent, reach out to, hear from, and support their diverse constituencies. This diversity might include varying cultures of race, ethnicity, religion, disability, socio-economic status, regional location, language spoken, sexual orientation, level of education, among other differences. Cultural competence, in the human service arena, includes the ability to understand, communicate with, interact and support an organization’s constituency. HSRI is committed to supporting public agencies and community support-giving organizations to adapt their policies and practices to assure the highest level of cultural competency. To this end, HSRI has prepared instruments and toolkits to assist practitioners and has conducted studies to determine best practice in cultural competence.