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Diversity Resource List — Web Sites

African and Caribbean Nutrition Resources compiled by practitioners in England, the West Bromwich African-Caribbean Resource Center and the Multicultural Library Service. Coventry City Council. The site includes African and Caribbean nutrition related leaflets, posters, videos, books and other Web site addresses.

http://www.blink.org.uk/subsections.asp?grp=5

The Red Informative para el Adulto Mayor Hispano is a site organized by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) for the older Hispanic community in the United States.

http://www.aoa.gov/siteutil/espanol.asp

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Nutrition and nutrition education and training sections.

http://www.fao.org/waicent

Latino nutrition education programs and resources from the Hispanic Health Council, Inc. (HHC). HHC is a community-based research, direct service, training and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health, mental health, nutrition and economic well-being of Latinos and low-income populations in and around the city of Hartford, CT.

http://www.hispanichealth.com/pana.htm

The National Institute of Aging is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health. The NIA leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. They offer a number of publications in Spanish, many consumer-oriented.

http://www.niapublications.org/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=8

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Minority Programs and Initiatives site includes research, initiatives and researcher's training programs.

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/ncn/training/minor.htm

Nutrition and Appetite from the Monell Chemical Senses Center site. This section provides multidisciplinary research in taste, smell and chemosensory irritation.

http://www.monell.org/nutrition.htm

Portal Alzheimer provides information in Spanish for caregivers about Alzheimer's Disease.

http://www.alzheimer-online.org

Think Cultural Health: Bridging the Health Care Gap through Cultural Competency Continuing Education Programs. This Web site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. Health care providers can use the resources available on this site as a way to improve the quality of health care services given to diverse populations.

http://www.thinkculturalhealth.org/

Tufts University's Health Sciences Library has a health resource for Asian Americans whose first language is not English called SPIRAL for "Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages," it is a Web site with detailed health information in seven Asian languages, specifically Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese. It is a unique multi-language health information site because it is for both physicians and patients.

http://spiral.tufts.edu/

US Department of Health & Human Services site provides reliable consumer health and human service information including publications, databases, Web sites and information on minority health (in English and Spanish).

http://www.healthfinder.gov/

US FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition site includes FDA documents on food safety translated into nine different languages.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/

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