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World TB Day once again filled our inboxes and covered our newsfeed. This year’s coverage seemed particularly urgent, with videos, specials, and many articles pointing out the rise in TB cases in the U.S. for the first time in two decades, and last year’s declaration that TB is the leading infectious disease killer, now killing more people each year than HIV/AIDS. What article got you thinking,... Read More
Staggering new report on severe workplace injuries, and how community health workers can be the answer: New MCN webinar series!
Ver en españolLast week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a report on its first year in collecting incident reports relating to severe injuries. Under its new rules which went into effect last year, a fatality at a workplace must be reported to OSHA within eight hours, and an in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or eye loss must be reported within 24 hours.... Read More
Is it Friday already? Before you head into the weekend, take a look at the top five recommendations from MCN staff on news and notes in health justice. If you have one to share, let us know. Email Claire at chutkins-seda@migrantclinician.org. 1. Amy, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, shared a recent MMWR from the CDC detailing a possible airborne person-to-person... Read More
Last week, our Environmental and Occupational Health team headed to Puerto Rico for a train-the-trainer session at Hospital General Castañer, a community health center located in the mountains in the heart of the island, where coffee, oranges, and plantains are grown. The two-day workshop gave the local health center’s outreach staff training in chemical safety, heat stress, and workers’... Read More
It’s Friday! Let’s celebrate the weekend with the top five items from MCN staff, on the many happenings in migrant health and beyond. 1. Candace, Specialist in Clinical Systems & Women’s Health, recommended an interesting article on how primary care providers are comparable to specialists for hepatitis C treatment.2. Karen, CEO, offered this Ted Talk from Russ Altman: What really happens... Read More
By Alexandra Smith, Health Network Representative, Migrant Clinicians Network [Editor’s note: In honor of National Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we are running the following excerpt from our Summer 2015 issue of Streamline, MCN’s quarterly clinical publication. The article is a comorbidity case study of a woman who was diagnosed with HIV and TB. Visit our Streamline page to... Read More
Last week, a newly published paper indicated that over 2,800 people leave the United States with active tuberculosis (TB) each year, while only ten percent receive continuity of care services like those provided by Migrant Clinicians Network’s Health Network. Without bridge case management, such cases could lead to incomplete treatment and development of drug resistance. The article, published in... Read More
We’ve had another very busy week at MCN. Here are some updates from the world of public health and health justice that we thought you’d enjoy, chosen by MCN staff members.1. Del, Director of International Projects, Research, and Development, sent Premier, Inc.’s moving video on Health Network, which they created in celebration of Health Network’s Premier Cares Award.2. Tiffy, Communications and... Read More
By: MCN Admin, Mar. 3, 2016
AUSTIN, TX -- March 3, 2016 -- A new journal article released today revealed that an average of 2,827 people with active tuberculosis (TB) leave the United States each year, and only about ten percent of those patients receive case management to assure treatment continuation and completion at their new destination. The article, co-authored by researchers Cynthia Tschampl, PhD, her colleagues at... Read More
AUSTIN, TX -- March 3, 2016 -- A new journal article released today revealed that an average of 2,827 people with active tuberculosis (TB) leave the United States each year, and only about ten percent of those patients receive case management to assure treatment continuation and completion at their new destination. The article, co-authored by researchers Cynthia Tschampl, PhD, her colleagues at... Read More
Last week, several staff members of Migrant Clinicians Network headed up to Portland, Oregon, for the 2016 Western Forum for Migrant and Community Health. Karen Mountain, RN, MSN, MBA, the Chief Executive Officer for Migrant Clinicians Network was particularly taken by a poem that was read aloud by Dr. Tina Castaneres, a local Oregon doctor and longtime friend of MCN. She read “Home,” a poem by... Read More
