Cabrillo College Library

Finding Books in the Cabrillo College Library

• From the Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu), click on Library Catalog 
• Do WORD searches for terms such as these: 
  • minority health 
  • health multicultural 
  • transcultural medical care 
  • health attitudes United States 
     

Reference Books. These are books located in the Reference area which you'll need to use in the library. You can read or photocopy articles from them. (Reference books are shelved in the area near the Reference Desk.)  When using these books, look in the index or alphabetical article listings under such terms as Health, Health Care, Nursing, Medicine, specific cultural groups, etc.

American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a Nation. 2 vols, 1997. ref E184.A1 A63448 1997 
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 5 vols, 1996. ref E185 .E54 1996 
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture.  5 vols, 1996. ref F1406.E53 1996
Encyclopedia of Mexico: History, Society & Culture. 2 vols, 1997. ref F1210.E63 1997
Encyclopedia of Public Health. 4 vols, 2002. ref RA423.E53 2002
Encyclopedia of World Cultures. 10 vols, 1991-96. ref GN550.E53 1991-
Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America. 2 vols, 1995. ref E184.A1G15 1995
Pocket Guide to Cultural Assessment. 1998. ref RT86.54.G45 1998.
Transcultural Health Care: A Culturally Competent Approach. 1998. ref RA418.5.T73T73 1998

Circulating books. These books are located in the Main Stacks area of the library and may be checked out for 3 weeks. However, since your fellow students are doing the same assignment at the same time, you might review the books you find, see if you can photocopy relevant pages, and then leave the books in the library (i.e., don't check them out) so others can also have access to the information.

Caring for Patients from Different Cultures. RT86.54 .G35 1997 
Caring for Women Cross-Culturally, edited by Patricia F. St. Hill. RT86.54 C365 2003
Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness, by Rachel E. Spector. RA418.5.T73 S64 1996 
Effective Communication in Multicultural Health Care Settings, by Gary L. Kreps and Elizabeth N. Kunimoto.
   R118 .K729 1994 
Ethnic Americans for the Health Professional, by Norma Jean Downes. RA448.4 .D69 1997 
Guide to Culturally Competent Health Care, by Larry Purnell and Betty J. Paulanka. RA418.5 T73 P87 2005
Handbook of Diversity Issues in Health Psychology, edited by Pamela M. Kato and Traci Mann. R726.7 .H356 1996 
Health Communication: Strategies for Health Professionals, by Peter G. Northouse and Laurel L. Northouse.
  R118 .N67 1992 
Minority Populations and Health, by Thomas A. LaVeist. RA448.4 L38 2005

Can't find what you need? There are additional resources; not all are listed here. Stop by the library's Reference Desk and ask a librarian for assistance. 

Finding Health and Medical Articles in Health Source Nursing/Academic database

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu) 
2. Click on Full Text Articles
3. Under Medicine, click on Health Source Nursing/Academic (from off campus, you will need your library card barcode number) 
4. Type in the keywords that represent the topic of your search. Much of the material in this database is fulltext.

Finding Information in Major Newspapers in ProQuest Newspapers database

1. From the Library homepage, click on Full Text Articles
2. Under News, click on Proquest Newspapers 
3. Enter your search using such terms as Asian Americans and health. 

Finding Information on the World Wide Web

There are abundant resources on the World Wide Web to explore for information about health and medicine related to culturally diverse groups. Some of these resources are listed below. 

• American Indian Health Resources (www.ldb.org/vl/geo/america/2usa-ind.htm)
• Association of American Indian Physicians  (www.aaip.com/)
• Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations  (www.aapcho.org/)
• Center for Cross-Cultural Health  (www.crosshealth.com/)
• Center for Minority Health (www.cmh.pitt.edu/)
• Cultural Diversity (www.health.qld.gov.au/multicultural/default.asp) Covers many different minority groups 
• Diversity Rx   (www.diversityrx.org/HTML/DIVRX.htm)
• EthnoMed (ethnomed.org) "Ethnic Medicine Guide,"  from the University of Washington
• Health Web: Minority Health (healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=53) African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans 
• Hispanic Health Council  (www.hispanichealth.com/)
• Indian Health Service  (www.ihs.gov/)
• Islamic Medicine (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_medicine) Good overview on history and current practices
• MEDLINEplus Health Guides for Specific Population Groups (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/populationgroups.html)
• Minority Health Project  (www.minority.unc.edu/)
• Office of Minority Health  (www.omhrc.gov/)
• Online Hispanic Health Resources (www.library.uthscsa.edu/rahc/clhin/webguides.cfm?Topic=Hispanic%20Health)
• Pan American Health Organization (www.paho.org/english/country.htm) Country Health Profiles for Latin American countries 
• Transcultural and Multicultural Health Links  (web.nmsu.edu/~ebosman/trannurs/index.shtml)

Additional information can be found using any good Internet search engine!

How Do You Cite Your Resources?

Now that you've found information on your topic, how do you cite your resources? You use a style guide. To get to a list of style guides:

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu)
2. Click on Internet Links
3. Click on Style Guides

1. Be on the Cabrillo College Library homepage (libwww.cabrillo.edu)
2. Click on Library & Internet Instruction
3. Click on Library Research Guides
4. Click on Allied Health and Cultural Diversity 

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