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Publications

Refer to this select list of articles, papers, and journals to keep abreast of changes in the medical field.

Articles/Papers

"Access to Health Care for the Uninsured in Rural and Frontier America." (An issue paper prepared by the National Rural Health Association, May 1999).
http://www.nrharural.org/dc/ issuepapers/ipaper15.html

"Facts about ...Rural Physicians"
http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/research_
programs/rural_program/phy.html

"Issues to Consider in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Patients." (In American Family Physician, Vol. 56, no. 8, November 15, 1997).
http://www.aafp.org/afp/971115ap/gulati.html

"Race and Place: Urban-Rural Differences in Health for Racial and Ethnic Minorities." (North Carolina Rural Health Research Program, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 2000). http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/ research_programs/Rural_Program/wp66.pdf

"Rural Health Clinics Fill Health Care Gap." (An article by Roy A. Jones, II, in the Abilene Reporter, 1997).
http://texnews.com/ads97/HealthCare97/rural.html

"Supporting the Rural Health Care Safety Net." (Occasional paper number 36, Urban Institute, March 2000).
http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/ op36/occa36.html

Journals

American Family Physician
American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.aafp.org/afp/

American Medical News
American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/index.htm

American Journal of Public Health
American Public Health Association
http://www.apha.org/journal/AJPH2.htm

Annals of Internal Medicine
American College of Physicians - American Society of Internal Medicine
http://www.annals.org/index.html

Archives of Family Medicine
American Medical Association
http://archfami.ama-assn.org/

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
American Medical Association
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/

Family Practice Management
American Academy of Family Physicians
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/index.html

Journal of the American Medical Association
American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/

Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
The New York Academy of Medicine
http://www3.oup.co.uk/jurban/

MSJAMA
American Medical Association
http://jama.ama-assn.org/ms_current.dtl

New England Journal of Medicine
Massachusetts Medical Society
http://content.nejm.org

Rural Health Newsletters
Rural Information Center Health Service
National Agricultural Library
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ ric/richs/newsltrs.htm

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