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Martha Hargraves, PhD, MPH

The author is with the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Martha Hargraves, PhD, MPH, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 301 Clinical Sciences Bldg, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX 77555-0587 (e-mail: mhargrav@utmb.edu).

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In May 2001, a national conference was convened in Galveston, Tex, with support from the newly created National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health. At this conference, approximately 250 representatives of the public health and medical communities, along with applied researchers from academia and the private sector, were joined by members of local communities to discuss the health and health care needs of minority women living in small towns and rural areas of the United States.

These women represent an often invisible and silent subpopulation of a subpopulation. The US decennial census for 2000 reports . . . [Full Text]

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