Building Knowledge
The Somali Community Access Network is a partnership between various local, state, and federal agencies to provide health and safety information and services to the large Somali community in Ohio.
Subtopics: Organizational Supports, Building Partnerships, Building Knowledge, Building Trust
Language(s): English
This report uses 1990 and 2000 Census data to construct tables on the concentration of poverty by race and ethnicity. Data is available by metropolitan statistical area, primary metropolitan statistical area, and non-metropolitan region.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
Subtopics: Emergency Decision Making, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters
Language(s): English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Chinese
This resource provides information on swine flu, and is available in English and Arabic.
Subtopics: Outbreaks, Emergency Decision Making, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Arabic
This resource provides information on swine influenza, including information on the disease, history of the disease, and information on the current situation with swine flu in the U.S., Mexico, and globally. This resource is available in English, Spanish, Farsi, and Russian.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Outbreaks, Emergency Decision Making, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish, Russian, Farsi
This resource provides information on swine flu, and is available in English and Spanish.
Subtopics: Outbreaks, Emergency Decision Making, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish
This resource provides information and links to relevant swine flu related resource, and is available in both English and Spanish.
Subtopics: Outbreaks, Emergency Decision Making, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English, Spanish
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ data bank draws from a number of sources to provide tables and charts by race/ethnicity, including information on internet access, minority businesses, family structure, housing, elected officials, and other variables of interest. Data is available at the national, state, regional, county, municipal, and school district level.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
Subtopics: Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Channels of Communication, Message Content, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This website provides a series of reports and tables on immigrants in the United States. Topics include their impact on the U.S. workforce and economy, as well as the needs of low-income immigrants.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English
This resource is part of a training package in qualitative research methods for PVO/NGO programs. The goals of the training package include to: (1) improve participation of beneficiary populations of transition, development and relief programs; (2) improve cross-cultural communication between program beneficiaries and program staff; and (3) improve quality of program planning and management.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Knowledge
Language(s): English
This CNN story describes the plight Vietnamese fishermen who have been affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill and the need to consider local cultural intricacies when developing relief strategies.
Subtopics: Language Access Services, Organizational Supports, Phase 6 - Response, Phase 7 - Recovery, Building Knowledge
Language(s): English
The Yale School of Public Health Center for Public Health Preparedness is involved in a number of efforts which address the preparedness needs on vulnerable populations.
Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Building Knowledge, Phase 2 - Preparedness
Language(s): English