Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Infobox Journal
discipline = Medicine, Health, Economics, Politics
abbreviation = JHCPU
website = http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/index.html
publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press
country = USA
history = 1990 to present
ISSN = 1049-2089
The "Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved" ("JHCPU") is an academic journal founded in 1990 by David Satcher, MD, PhD then President of Meharry Medical College (later, U.S. Surgeon General). "JHCPU" is published by Johns Hopkins University Press for Meharry, and is affiliated with the [http://www.clinicians.org/ Association of Clinicians for the Underserved] . It is the premier journal covering the health and health care of medically underserved populations in North and Central America and the Caribbean. It covers topics such as access to health care, quality, costs, regulation, legislation, and disease prevention. Articles take the form of scholarly research and expert opinion, as well as policy analyses and book reviews. Each issue also contains an ACU Column and a Heroes and Great Ideas Column. The editor is Virginia Brennan, PhD, MA of Meharry Medical College. The journal is published quarterly in February, May, August, and November, with occasional supplemental issues. It is listed as one of the nation's leading "Health Policy" journals by the Kaiser Family Foundation and as an essential core journal in "Public Health Practice" by the Medical Library Association’s Core Public Health Journals Project.
ee also
*Health disparities
*Health care delivery
*Health care system
*Meharry Medical College
*Historically Black Colleges and Universities
External links
* [https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/index.html JHCPU site at Johns Hopkins University Press]
* [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_health_care_for_the_poor_and_underserved/ online access to the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved at Project MUSE]
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=%22J+Health+Care+Poor+Underserved%22%5BJournal%5D Pubmed search] for Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
See also
* [http://www.factline.org Factline: Tracking Health in Underserved Communities, an educational website created by the editorial staff of "JHCPU" at Meharry Medical College]
* [http://www.mmc.edu Meharry Medical College]
* [http://www.clinicians.org Association of Clinicians for the Underserved]
* [http://phha.mlanet.org/activities/corejournal.html Medical Library Assn. Core Public Health Journal Project]
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