Resource: Our Bodies Ourselves: Women’s Health Information Resource Center
Our Bodies Ourselves
Informative website on women’s health, pregnancy, and birth. Some materials have been translated into 25+ languages including Nepali, Thai, and Arabic.
Category Archives: Resources
Sexual and Gender-based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response
Resource: Sexual and Gender-based Violence against Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displaced Persons: Guidelines for Prevention and Response
UNHCR
These guidelines offer practical advice on how to design strategies and carry out activities aimed at preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence perpetrated against refugee women.
Bhutanese Refugee Support Group and PhotoVoice
Resource: Bhutanese Refugees
Bhutanese Refugee Support Group and PhotoVoice
This website provides an introduction to the experiences of Bhutanese refugees in camps, in Bhutan, and in exile.
Health Education Materials in Refugee Languages
Resource: Health Education Materials in Refugee Languages
Refugee Health Information Network (RHIN)
The RHIN website enables refugees and their health care providers to search for multilingual refugee health resources.
Healthy Living Toolkits
Resource: Healthy Living Toolkits
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
These toolkits are designed to educate refugees and immigrants to become proactive health consumers and health promoters in their communities. Toolkits are available in several refugee languages.
Cultural Profiles for Specific Refugee Populations
Resource: Cultural Profiles for Specific Refugee Populations
Center for Applied Linguistics
This website features cultural profiles for Kunama, Eritrean, Bhutanese, Burmese, Somali Bantu, Iraqi Kurdish, and other refugee groups.
Domestic Service Provider Toolkit
Resource: Domestic Service Provider Toolkit
Center for Applied Linguistics
This toolkit includes domestic health orientation resources for resettlement agency staff and others who provide orientation to newly arrived refugees.
Rainbow Welcome Initiative
Resource: Rainbow Welcome Initiative
Heartland Alliance
This new website provides resources to support resettlement of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and/or Transgender (LGBT) refugees and asylees.
A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
Resource: A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
U.S. DHHS Office of Minority Health
This self-directed training course offers CMEs for physicians and other health care professionals with a specific interest in cultural competency in care.
Toolkit for Community Action
Resource: Toolkit for Community Action
National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Office of Minority HealthÂ
This toolkit includes descriptions of health disparities and their causes, tools for policy change, and action steps to end health disparities.