The following web sites have been carefully selected for reliability and timeliness. If you are using information from the web, it check the authority of your resources. A Quick Guide to Evaluating Internet Information is available.

Evaluating Health Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/evaluatinghealthinformation.html
A comprehensive resource with links to latest news, the National Institutes of Health, new research findings on specific conditions, organizations devoted to health information, and resources for understanding medical research.

Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/webeval/webeval.html
Useful for high school students, college undergraduates and health educators, this tutorial runs for approximately 15 minutes or can be self-paced.

Guide to Healthy Web Searching. MedlinePlus.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html
Advice for patients and health professionals on evaluating the quality of health information on websites.

Is This Health Information Good for Me?
http://nnlm.gov/pnr/hip/criteria.html
A quick guide to evaluating health news or reported research findings. (Includes Spanish language version)

CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN HEALTH CARE: EMERGING FRAMEWORKS AND PRACTICAL APPROACHES
http://www.cmwf.org/usr_doc/betancourt_culturalcompetence_576.pdf
A 40 page report sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund in 2002; an excellent overview of the issues.

Goals of Healthy People 2010.
http://www.healthypeople.gov/About/goals.htm
Healthy People 2010, the U.S. national agenda for health and prevention, "is designed to achieve two overarching goals: Increase quality and years of healthy life and eliminate health disparities.”

Cross-cultural, transcultural, cultural competence – resources & links
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/culture.html
A metasite by the U.C.-San Francisco School of Medicine.

National Center for Cultural Competence.
http://www11.georgetown.edu/research/gucchd/nccc/
Promoting Cultural Diversity and Cultural Competency has an online “Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Services and Supports to Children with Special Health Needs and their Families, and provides useful Web links on cultural competence, as well as the searchable “Cultural and Linguistic Competence Resource Database” of resource materials.

Office of Minority Health. (U.S.)
http://www.omhrc.gov/
Includes text of statistical reports and the "Closing the Gap" Newsletters from 1995 to the present, a link to a Webcast of the Healthy People 2010 Session on Eliminating Minority Health Disparities, and many other useful links.

Resources for Cross Cultural Health Care
http://www.diversityrx.org/HTML/WERCCH.htm
"A national network of individuals and organizations in ethnic communities and health care organized to offer technical assistance and information on linguistic and cultural competence in health care." Website has the searchable DiversityRx database of abstracts of model programs on cultural competence; text of a report, "Multicultural Health Best Practices Overview"; and useful links.