Countries, Peoples & Cultures series by 
Ethnic Groups of the Americas by 
Multicultural America series by 
Native Peoples of the World by 
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures & Daily Life by 
Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine by 
Cultural Diversity in Health & Illness by 
Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity & Health by 
LGBTQ Cultures: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Sexual & Gender Diversity by 
Medical Anthropology & the World System by 
Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses by 
Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care by 
Transcultural Nursing by
Finding information about the relationship between culture and health care may require that you search for several different combinations of words or phrases in the Library databases. Here are some suggestions that might help. Be sure to use quotation marks to keep words together when searching for a phrase.
“cultural competence" and “health care”
“cultural competence” and medicine
“cultural pluralism” and “health care”
“ethnic groups” and “health care”
“health attitudes” and “ethnic groups”
“health attitudes” and “ethnological aspects”
“health behavior” and “ethnic groups”
“health disparities”
“medical anthropology”
“medical care” and “cross-cultural studies”
medicine and “religious aspects”
medicine and spirituality
minorities and “medical care”
“social medicine”
"transcultural health care"
“transcultural medical care”
“transcultural nursing"
You can also add the name of a specific ethnic group to any of these searches (example: “health care” and “Filipino Americans”).