Health Literacy

Provides an overview of cultural and linguistic competence.

Links to assessment tools, culture/language specific resources, health professions education materials and more.

Offers CME/CE credit and equips health care professionals with awareness, knowledge, and skills to better treat the increasingly diverse U.S. population they serve.

Provides links to assessment tools available on the Web.

Provides a variety of self-assessment tools, including a Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CCHPA) and a Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services.

Contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to the U.S., many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world.

Their mission is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.