Multicultural resources for health professionals

The following resources are available for health professionals to support planning and effective delivery of services to people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. 

Resources to support health service delivery

• Culturally and linguistically diverse population health needs information papers
• WA Health Multicultural Health Services Directory
• Search Diversity WA (external site)
• WA diversity and statistics (external site)
• Guide to cultural and linguistic data collection for public sector (external site)
• The Review of Cultural and Linguistic Diversity (CaLD) data collection practices in the WA health system
• AIHW National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards – user guide for health service organisations providing care for patients from migrant and refugee backgrounds (external site)
• Resource toolkit for refugee and migrant women accessing maternity services
• Framework for Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (external site)
• Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA) (external site)
• HealthPathways (external site).

Resources for health consumers

• Health advice for people coming to Western Australia (Healthy WA)
• Health advice for international students (Healthy WA)
• Migrant and refugee mental health (Healthy WA)
• Head to Health (external site)
• healthdirect (external site)
• The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care - Australian Charter of Health Care Rights (external site)
• SBS Cultural Atlas (external site)
• Calendar of cultural and religious dates, Australian Government Department of Home Affairs (external site)
• MyAus App – guide to setting up life in Australia (external site).