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Who are we?
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Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved
Communities is a website
sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and Meharry Medical College that
highlights health disparities in underserved communities.  Factline presents information
about health disparities faced by women, members of minority groups, the elderly
and others. The focus of the
website is two-fold: presenting significant findings from scholarly
research in public health on the subject of health disparities and providing
bibliographic references to the literature in which these findings are
established. The framework for the
research is Healthy People 2010.
Factline is directed at journalists, students, community health
advocates, and policy makers. It
builds on an earlier work, Factbook on Health Care for the Poor and
Underserved, published by the Journal of Health Care for
the Poor and Underserved in 1993. Factline presents salient
facts on medically underserved communities in a format that is easy to digest, using
graphics, diagrams, and quotations whenever appropriate.
Factline is organized into five major areas: Access to Health, Mental Health, Minority Health, Women's Health, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Within each major area, there are several topic pages, including cancer, depression, obstetrical care, and barriers to care for immigrants. You can navigate the site by using the left sidebar or by visiting the links below.
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Access to Health Care
Access to health care is divided into the following topics: overview of access to health, and barriers to care for immigrants.
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Mental Health
Mental Health is divided into these topics: depression, mental health disorders, substance abuse, violence, homeless mentally ill, and mental health services research.
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Minority Health
Minority Health is divided into the following topics: diabetes, cancer, nutrition, tuberculosis, kidney disease, and heart disease.
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Women's Health
Women's Health is divided into the following topics: breast and cervical cancer, obstetrical care, and domestic violence.
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JHCPU News
For recent press releases, tables of contents, and upcoming news on the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, click here.
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Factline en Español / Spanish Factline
Factline: el estado de la salud en las comunidades desatendidas es un sitio de Web patrocinado por la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina y la Universidad Médica Meharry que destaca las disparidades en la salud de las comunidades desatendidas.
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Factline en
Español is here! Click on the above link.
. **Check the site regularly -more topics will be added on a regular basis. **
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Links to Our Partners
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