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RCMI International Symposium on Health Disparities
November 12-15, 2000
San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Two sessions
Monday, November 13, 2000
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2000
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Melvin L. Spann, Ph.D.
Associate Director (retired)
National Library of Medicine
As part of its minority outreach efforts, the National Library of Medicine has two programs that are intended to help eliminate health disparities by providing better access to relevant information resources. These programs focus on toxicology and environmental health and HIV/AIDS information and are aimed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the economically disadvantaged and underserved communities surrounding these institutions. The purpose of these programs is to develop a constituency of minority health professionals who can access information resources effectively in the areas of toxic chemical exposure or HIV/AIDS infection. These NLM outreach programs have encompassed training in the use of toxicology and environmental health information resources or the HIV/AIDS information resources available through NLM. Training classes have been held at HBCUs and other sites.
This workshop will focus on the use of the Internet to access these valuable information resources with emphasis on retrieving information relevant to health disparities. The presentation will feature NLM’s HIV/AIDS databases, DIRLINE (a directory of health organizations), MEDLINEplus (medical literature for consumers and health professionals), Clinical Trails.gov (current information about clinical research studies), and PubMed (a user-friendly access to medical references and abstracts). These Internet resources can be used to locate needed information about health conditions and/or diseases, gather current treatment and drug information, determine where clinical trails are being conducted, and organizations that will provide health and biomedical information.
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