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Minority Health

American Diabetes Association African American Program
This site for the American Diabetes Association African American Program includes useful statistics on the occurrence of diabetes in the African American community as well as tools for research on the topic. http://www.diabetes.org/africanamerican/

Asian-American Health
Site lists resources, links, jobs, and announcements directed at Cambodian (Khmer), Laotian, and Vietnamese populations in Texas. http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/asian_health.html

Asian Health Services Online
The mission of Asian Health Services Online is to serve and advocate for the immigrant and refugee Asian community regarding its health rights, and to assure access to health care services regardless of income, insurance status, language, or culture. Site contains news, recipes, links and upcoming events. http://www.ahschc.org

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO)
The AAPCHO isa centralized location source of current information about issues affecting Asian American and Pacific Islander health and an intended vehicle for organizations to share expertise in providing culturally competent, linguistically accessible and affordable primary health care services to Asian American and Pacific Islander populations across the country.http://www.aapcho.org

Diabetes in Hispanic Americans
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health. The Institute supports much of the clinical research on the diseases of internal medicine and related subspecialty fields as well as many basic science disciplines. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/pubs/hispan/hispan.htm

Black Health Network
The Black Health Network is an online database of articles written primarily by physicians on a variety of minority health issues.  The site includes a doctor locator for African American physicians. http://www.blackhealthnet.com/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Mortality Database
Run queries on the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's mortality database to calculate death rates, by race and gender, for any cause of death. Rates can be run for counties, states or the nation.
http://wonder.cdc.gov

Department of Health and Human Services' Initiative
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' initiative on eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities. Details six health areas targeted, available funding, and President Clinton's plans to eliminate the gap by 2010. http://raceandhealth.hhs.gov

Department of Housing and Urban Development's study -- Now is the Time
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's study, Now is the time: Places left behind in the new economy, published in 1999. It spotlights 74 cities in double trouble because of high unemployment and poverty rates and fleeing population. http://www.hud.gov/pressrel/leftbehind/menu.html

EthnoMed
A joint project of University of Washington Health Sciences Library and the Harborview Medical Center's Community House Calls Program, EthnoMed contains medical and cultural information on refugee groups in the Seattle area. The site is designed to be a clinical tool that can be used by a care provider in the few minutes before seeing a patient in clinic. Site includes information especially relevant to the Amharic, Cambodian, Eritrean, Hispanic, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, and Vietnamese. http://www.healthlinks.washington.edu/clinical/ethnomed

HealthWeb -- Asian American Health
Section of the larger HealthWeb site devoted to Asian American health. Includes links to other sites devoted to health from an Asian American perspective.http://www.lib.msu.edu/health/hw/minority/asian.htm

HealthWeb -- Minority Health
Section of the larger HealthWeb dedicated to minority health includes site lists, links to agencies, institutes, and other resources. http://www.lib.msu.edu/health/hw/minority/general.htm

MedWebPlus
MedWebPlus is a free service designed to help users sift through the ever growing amounts of data of/on/about or in any way regarding, the health sciences. Created and maintained by Steve Foote and Andy Kogelnik and additional staff and support from y-DNA,inc., MedWebPlus catalogs both on-line and print information sources. y-DNA, inc. provides this service free of charge as a demonstration site for the Company's informatics/database tools which are used to run the site. y-DNA, inc. provides consulting, software development and Internet services specializing in biomedical applications. MedWebPlus membership is free and available to anyone within the scope of the MedWebPlus code of conduct and within the free spirit of the Internet community. http://www.medwebplus.com/

National Library of Medicine's Internet Grateful Med
The National Library of Medicine's Internet Grateful Med assists in searching thousands of medical journals from 1966 to the present for articles exploring racial disparities in health. Abstracts and some complete articles are available online. http://igm.nlm.nih.gov

Office of Minority Health
The Office of Minority Health, established by Department of Health and Human Services in 1985, advises the Secretary and Office of Public Health and Science on public health program activities affecting American Indian and Alaska Native, African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, and Hispanic populations. http://www.omhrc.gov

Womer of Color Web
Within the Global Reproductive Health Forum, the Women of Color Web is dedicated to discussions of discussions of reproductive health, gender, and sexuality from the perspectives of women of color. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/grhf/WoC/