Resource Guides: Diversity and Health: Cultural Humility

Recommended Resources

Books

The 99 day diversity challenge: creating an inclusive workplace by Saundarya Rajesh (2019)
Caring for patients from different cultures by Geri-Ann Galanti (2015)
Cultural sensibility in healthcare: a personal & professional guidebook by Sally N Ellis Fletcher (2016)
Ethics in social science research becoming culturally responsive by Maria K E Lahmam (2018)
Living Earth community: multiple ways of being and knowing Edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (2020)
Improving cultural competence to reduce health disparities by Mary Butler (2016)
Promoting ethnic diversity and multiculturalism in higher education edited by Barbara Blummer, Jeffrey M Kenton, and Michael D Wiatrowski (2018)

Websites and Databases

Think Cultural Health from the Office of Minority Health
EthnoMed – Aims to be a convenient source for social and cultural details relevant to clinical care

Articles

3 Things to Know: Cultural Humility by Julia Surfin (2019)
"Cultural and Structural Humility and Addressing Systems of Care Disparities in Mental Health Services for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Youth" from Yan Li, A.S. et al. in Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Care Clinics of North America (2022)
Cultural Humility vs. Cultural Competence — and Why Providers Need Both by Shamaila Khan, PhD (2021)

Defining Cultural Humility

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines cultural humility as “a lifelong process of self-reflection and self-critique whereby the individual not only learns about another’s culture, but one starts with an examination of her/his own beliefs and cultural identities.”

Reading Without Walls

Books

Lissa by Sherine Hamdy; Coleman Nye; Sarula Bao (Artist); Caroline Brewer (Artist) (2017)

Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet by Dechun Li (Translator); Gerald Roche (Editor) (2017)

Monique and the Mango Rains: two years with a midwife in Mali by Kris Holloway; John Bidwell (Editor) (2007)

Tales of Darkness and Light by Soso Tham; Janet Hujon (Translator) (2018)

Organizations and Initiatives

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