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 Esta es la sesión final de la serie en donde revisamos los requisitos de vacunación para los niños en edad escolar en Puerto Rico que han cambiado para el año escolar 2018-2019.  

The notion of structural vulnerability addresses the challenges of caring for individual patients within the large context of power hierarchies, institutional barriers and economic inequalities. Rooted in teh concept of social determinants of health, understanding structural vulnerablities allows medical students and clinicians to more clearly and critically confront the social structures that make people sick. Migrant and seasonal agricultural workers operate within the cross-section of a number of structural vulnerabilities.

MHC's motto this year is "Transforming Data to Action: Empowering Future Providers to Tackle Inequity". The 2018 committee hopes to give conference attendees the knowledge and confidence to address health inequities that are pervasive in today's healthcare system.  For more information and to register click here. 
Location:  Keck School of Medicine of USC, Health Science Campus

Join us for this annual conference that brings together tribal officials, researchers, practitioners, and others to discuss the current state of Indigenous and academic scientific knowledge about Native nutrition and food science, and identify new areas of work. For more information and to register for this event plese click here.  

The Midwest Stream Forum for Agricultural Worker Health, produced by the National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc. is an annual conference that provides quality, agricultrual specific, professional development experiences for individuals in all disciplines working with the agricultural worker community. The Forum offers a diverse program featuring sessions on clinical topics, lay health outreach, research, and leadership development. Participants also have the opportunity to gain continuing education credits.

The Breast Health Summit is the only annual conference dedicated to improving breast health care for the medically under served in Texas. It serves as a forum for the exchange of information for survivors, advocates, healthcare professionals, educators, and caregivers.This year's summit will take place at the Norris Conference Center - Citycentre Houston.  Please click here to register for this event.   

Durante la sesión el Dr. Rodriguez compartirá su experiencia como director médico del Hospital General Castañer, un Centro de Salud en las montañas de Puerto Rico, durante y después del Huracán María.  Describirá las estrategias básicas de manejo y control con pacientes hipertensos y otras enfermedades cronicas y como tuvieron que adaptar dichas estrategias después de la tormenta.  Con casos verídicos ejemplificará los retos que enfrentaron y las formas en que buscan superarlos, para que la audiencia pueda vislumbrar las lecciones aprendidas.

In this presentation, MCN will discuss a unique project examining the cost of care conversation’s structure, to see what content elements are actually delivered during the medical encounter versus what is recalled by the patients. The presentation will include a comparison of the effectiveness of the trained sub-groups (intervened) and the usual care (non-intervened) study groups. Long-term outcomes regarding the patient’s adherence to the care plan, and their reason for non-adherence, will also be discussed. Register here.

More than two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic (transmitted between animals and humans) in origin, and animal agricultural workers can be on the “front lines” of a zoonotic disease outbreak.