NPCW Links

HEALTH DISPARITIES

• AMSA's Eliminating Health Disparities Initiative

PRIMARY CARE PROFILES

• Bureau of Primary Health Care Home
• Big Doctoring: Profiles in Primary Care

STATISTICS AND INFORMATION ON UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES

• Health Professional Shortage Area Primary Medical Care Designation Criteria
  (RELEVANT EXCERPTS FROM 42 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS (CFR), CHAPTER 1, PART 5, Appendix A (October 1, 1993, pp. 34-48) Criteria for Designation of Areas Having Shortages of Primary Medical Care Professionals)
• Find a Health Care Site (potential sites for NPCW events)
• Underserved and Area Health Professional Shortage Information

MINORITY HEALTH ISSUES

• Articles on Minority Health

HEALTH LITERACY STATISTICS, INFORMATION, AND RESOURCES

• National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
• Clear Health Communication Initiative
• DiversityRx
• HRSA Health Literacy

JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH AND UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS

• Community Health Careers
• Health Resources and Service Administration Job Opportunities

PUBLICATIONS

• HRSA Information Center (publications catalog, resources and referral database)

FACULTY AND COMMUNITY MENTORS

• Area Health Education Center Locator
• NHSC Health Ambassadors

NATIONAL ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS

COMPREHENSIVE

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Public Health Leadership and Capacity

CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

• Child Advocacy Institute: Health Care
• AMSA's Child and Adolescent Health Interest Group
• Children's Defense Fund SHOUT Program
• DC Action for Children
• Covering Kids and Families
• DC Action for Children
• Families USA: Health Action Network
• Family Voices: National Projects
• Head Start Information and Publication Center: Mental Health Advocacy and Policy Organizations
• Insure Kids Now!
• Kids Help Online - Mental Health and Mental retardation
• National Assembly on School-Based Health Care: Center for Advocacy and Public Policy

DISABILITY ISSUES

• Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities
• National Advocacy and Information resources for Disabilities, Health Care and Mental Illness
• AMSA's Committee on Disabilities
• National Health Information Center

END-OF-LIFE CARE

• AMSA's Death and Dying Interest Group
• AMSA's End of Life Care Fellowship Program

GAY AND LESBIAN ISSUES

• Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance (GLAA) Projects
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
• Gay Health Advocacy Project
• AMSA's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Health Action Committee

GENERAL

• AMSA's Activism Toolbox
• AMSA's Direct Action Interest Group
• AMSA's Internships, Fellowships and Other Opportunities
• AMSA Projects and Resources

GLOBAL HEALTH

• AMSA's Global Health Action Committee
• Physicians for Human Rights: Take Action Today
• Doctors for Global Health
• Physicians for Social Responsibility: Take Action

HUMANISTIC MEDICINE/COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

• AMSA's Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Resource Center
• AMSA's EDCAM: Educational Development for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Program
• AMSA's Humanistic Medicine Action Committee
• Promoting Healthy Behaviors: Linking Student Health to Prevention AMSA PowerPoint Presentation (315 KB)

MANAGED CARE

• Center for Health Care Strategies Action Resources
• The Health Consumer Alliance

MENTAL HEALTH

• American Psychiatric Association: Public Policy Advocacy
• Head Start Information and Publication Center: Mental Health Advocacy and Policy Organizations
• Kids Help Online - Mental Health and Mental retardation
• Mental Health Advocacy
• Mental Health Advocacy and Legal Center
• National Mental Health Association: Advocacy
• Protection & Advocacy, Inc.: Mental Health Advocacy Publications and Services
• AMSA's Mental Health Interest Group

MULTICULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS

• Asian Health Services
• Catholic Health Association Advocacy
• Latin American Health Institute (LHI) Center for Health Policy and Planning

PHYSICIAN AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS ADVOCACY

• American Medical Association (AMA): Public Health
• American Public Health Association: Resources for Health Education and Promotion
• Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
• Institute on Medicine as a Profession: Resource Center
• Minnesota Medical Association (MMA) Center for Physician Advocacy
• AMSA's Osteopathy Interest Group
• Physicians for a National Health Care Program
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• AMSA's Primary Care Interest Group

PUBLIC POLICY

• Alliance for Health Reform
• American Diabetes Association (ADA): Government Responsibility and Advocacy
• AMSA's Community and Public Health Action Committee
• AMSA's Health Policy Action Committee
• AMSA's Legislative Action Center
• National Association of Community Health Centers: Advocacy (members only access)
• National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems: Issues Advocacy
• AMSA Press Release: Physicians Proposal for National Health Program
• Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN): Current Issues/Advocacy

SENIORS

• Center for Medicare Advocacy
• AMSA's Geriatrics Interest Group
• Medicare Rights Center: Policy and Advocacy

SERVICES

• Healthy People 2010 Assistance

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

• AMSA's Universal Health Care Fact Sheet
• PBS: The Uninsured in America

WOMEN'S HEALTH

• American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)
• International Women's Health Coalition: How You Can Help
• AMSA's Women's Health Committee