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Factline:
Tracking Health in Underserved Communities
http://www.meharry.org/Fl/

 

Sponsor:

National Library of Medicine, Meharry Medical College

Mission:

"Factline presents information about health disparities faced by women, members of minority groups, the elderly and others.  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."  

Focus:

"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."  

Resources:

Information is organized into 1. Access to Health care, 2) Mental Health, 3) Minority Health, 4) Women's Health, 5) Sexually Transmitted Diseases. There is also a Spanish version.

Last Update:

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