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Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) is a peer-reviewed journal focusing on contemporary health care issues of medically underserved communities. JHCPU addresses such diverse areas as health care access, quality, costs, legislation, regulations, health promotion, and disease prevention from a North American, Central American, Caribbean, and sub-Saharan African perspective. Regular features include research papers and reports, literature reviews, policy analyses, and evaluations of noteworthy health care programs, as well as a regular column written by members of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is the official journal of the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU).
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Volume 28, Number 1, February 2017Table of Contents
Letter to the Editor
Reports from the Field

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View Academic-Community Partnership for Medical Missions: Lessons Learned and Practical Guidance for Global Health Service-Learning Experiences
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View Screening for Food Insecurity in Pediatric Primary Care: A Clinic’s Positive Implementation Experiences
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Commentaries
Brief Communications

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View Examining the Influence of Cost Concern and Awareness of Low-cost Health Care on Cancer Screening among the Medically Underserved
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View Factorial Invariance and Convergent Validity of the Group-Based Medical Mistrust Scale across Gender and Ethnoracial Identity
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View Where the U.S. tobacco epidemic still rages: Most remaining smokers have lower socioeconomic status
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Literature Reviews

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View Perceived Barriers and Facilitators to Health Care Utilization in the United States for Transgender People: A Review of Recent Literature
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Original Papers
Sub-Saharan African Populations

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View Can incentives reduce the barriers to use of antenatal care and delivery services in Kenya?: Results of a qualitative inquiry
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Assessment of Barriers to Essential Surgical Care in Two Communities in the Upper West Region, Ghana

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View Housing and Health Outcomes of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) in the Lower Manya Krobo District, Ghana
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View A Two-Year Retrospective Study on the Pattern of Dental Trauma and its Etiology, Northwest Ethiopia
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Original Papers
African American Populations and Others in the U.S.

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View Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Use of Health Care Services in Low-Income, Minority Preschool Children
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View Cancer Mortality in the Mississippi Delta Region: Descriptive Epidemiology and Needed Future Research and Interventions
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Inadequate Cancer Screening: Lack of Provider Continuity is a Greater Obstacle than Medical Mistrust

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View Health Ministry and Activities in African American Faith-Based Organizations: A Qualitative Examination of Facilitators, Barriers, and Use of Technology
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View “We as Black Men Have to Encourage Each other:” Facilitators and Barriers Associated with HIV Testing among Black/African American Men in Rural Florida
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ISSN | 1548-6869 |
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Print ISSN | 1049-2089 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-02-24 |
Open Access | No |