Resource: Stories for Somali Health Video
New Routes to Community Health
This one-hour video, hosted on YouTube, uses a traditional Somali folklore character to illustrate how a modern-day family can confront mental illness.
Tag Archives: Somali
Somali Cultural Guide: Building Capacity to Strengthen the Well-Being
Resource: Somali Cultural Guide: Building Capacity to Strengthen the Well-Being of Immigrant Families and Their Children: A Prevention Strategy
Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Information for child welfare professionals on the culture of Somali immigrant children and families.
Somali Health Education Materials and Videos
Resource: Somali Health Education Materials and Videos
WellShare International
Anatomy booklet, family planning pamphlet, and women’s health fact sheets in English and Somali.
Reproductive health care experiences of Somali Bantu women in Hartford, Connecticut
In the Literature: Lost in translation: reproductive health care experiences of Somali Bantu women in Hartford, Connecticut. Gurnah K, Khoshnood K, Bradley E, Yuan C. (2011). J Midwifery Womens Health, 56(4):340-6.
Somali women’s fears of obstetrical interventions in the United States.
In the Literature: “They get a C-section…they gonna die”: Somali women’s fears of obstetrical interventions in the United States.
Brown E, Carroll J, Fogarty C, Holt C. (2010). J Transcult Nurs, 21(3):220-7.
Indicators of acculturation related to Somali refugee women’s birth outcomes in Minnesota
In the Literature: Indicators of acculturation related to Somali refugee women’s birth outcomes in Minnesota. Flynn PM, Foster EM, Brost BC. (2011). J Immigr Minor Health, 13(2):224-31.