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DIGGING DEEPER

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) (http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/disparity.htm) links to legislative updates, reports, other Web sites of interest, articles on disparities in health care, and a recent audioconference. NCSL co-sponsors DiversityRx, http://www.diversityrx.org, a Web site that deals with cultural competence issues in health.

The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) (http://www.astho.org/access/documents.html). A Compendium of State and Local Models Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health offers information about federal, state and local programs that address health care disparities, including provider training and preventive care.

The National Health Law Program (NHeLP) (http://www.healthlaw.org/race.shtml) has links to a number of publications on immigrant health, cultural/lingual access, and health disparities. NHeLP also has a new immigrant health Web page with information about access to care, children's health, and welfare reform and immigrant health.

For information about federal initiatives and publications, visit the Office of Minority Health (http://www.omhrc.gov).

Links are available to other Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies, data and statistics, and reports. State liaisons for minority health are found at http://www.omhrc.gov/OMH/sidebar/stateliaisons.htm.

• Federal research on minority health and some good fact sheets can be found at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) (http://www.ahrq.gov/research/minorix.htm).
• Information about biomedical research on minority health at the National Institutes of Health is located at http://www1.od.nih.gov/ormh/mhi.html.
• For U.S. Census data, see http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race.html.
• The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's (ATSDR) web site describes the agency's Minority Health/Environmental Justice Program, and a minority health program database lists projects by state, (http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov/mhp1.html).

The Alliance for Health Reform lists telephone and Web contacts on minority health in its March 2000 Sourcebook for Journalists, http://www.allhealth.org/sourcebook/chp_07/ch07A_sources.

Georgetown University's National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health has a collection of annotated links at http://www.ncemch.org/refDes/kprace.html.

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