Latino Culture in Occupational Health Settings:

a presentation for ThedaCare At Work

2/17/2026

Resources

Various Topics (Culture, Communication, Bias, etc.)

• The Cultural Iceberg, Edward T. Hall

  • (PDF) https://bccie.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cultural-iceberg.pdf

• (website) Office of Minority Health https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/

• (website) Think Cultural Health https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/

• (website) Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS Standards) https://thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/clas

• (website) EthnoMed, a program within Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington https://ethnomed.org/

• National Council on Interpreting in Health Care https://www.ncihc.org/

• (book *Hmong culture) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

• (article) Hershberger PJ, Bricker DA, Castle A, Crawford TN, Flowers SR, Goff AL, Conway K (2024) Compassionate curiosity: mitigating the effects of bias through motivational interviewing, Health Equity 8:1, 351–354, DOI: 10.1089/heq.2024.0054 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39011081/

• Project Implicit Bias Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

• (video) TV 2 | All That We Share https://youtu.be/jD8tjhVO1Tc

• (video) TV 2 | All that we share – connected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ15cqP-K80

• LEARN Communication model for cross-cultural communication 

  • (PDF) The LEARN Communication Model https://tinyurl.com/2bm2hrw4

  • (article) Cross-cultural communication: Tools for working with families and children https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815116/

• (website) Key facts about U.S. Latinos. (Pew Research 2025) Shortened URL: https://tinyurl.com/4k5fuc7x

Experiencing Latino Culture through Story, Art, Music

Movie Titles

• Under the Same Moon

• Una Vida Mejor (A Better Life)

• A Million Miles Away

• Desierto (Desert)

• Argentina, 1985

• La Pampa (version Peru 2022) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11821430/

• Instructions Not Included

Authors

• Isabel Allende

• Sandra Cisneros

• Ana Castillo

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Pablo Neruda

Music Styles

• Salsa

• Merengue

• Bachata

• Reggaeton

• Mariachi

• Corrido

• Vallenato

• Cumbia

Artists

• Frida Kahlo

• Oscar De La Renta

• Fernando Botero

• Diego Rivera

• Latino Art and Artists (Smithsonian) https://www.si.edu/spotlight/latino-artists