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[Editor's Note: Experts on the ground agree with the medical publication: the death toll from Maria was devastating. In this interview from May, Dr. Jose O. Rodriguez, Family Medicine Specialist and Medical Director of General Hospital Castañer in Puerto Rico explains why so many people died in the wake of Hurricane Maria.]New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine... Read More
September is Preparedness Month, with the first week dedicated to personal preparedness. Whether your region is subject to earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, or snow storms, every person should be prepared with several days’ worth of food, water, medicine, or other basic necessities, should infrastructure be compromised. Share the CDC’s recommendations with your patients to... Read More
photo credit: CSM[Editor’s Note: September is National Preparedness Month. We are once again deep into hurricane season. Health centers in hurricane-prone regions continue to update their preparation plans to assure readiness in the face of disaster. This interview is from the current issue of Streamline, Migrant Clinicians Network’s in-print quarterly clinical publication providing information... Read More
Thank you to the mobile laborers across the country -- agricultural workers, construction workers, post-disaster clean-up and demolition workers -- who are often overlooked during our Labor Day festivities but make up an essential part of our economy and our culture. Here are a few articles that were recommended by MCN staff this week. Enjoy your three-day weekend! ... Read More
August is already packing her summery bags, and September is moving in. For many families with children settling back into new school routines, this can be the busiest time of year. It’s easy to lose track of the critical news stories in migrant and immigrant health. Here are the top five reads from MCN staff that you may have missed. What did you read that we may have missed?... Read More
[Nota del editor: Estamos celebrando el trabajo de alcance comunitario en la región de Castañer Puerto Rico. Tres equipos diferentes salieron a la comunidad para proporcionar entrenamientos a los trabajadores sobre seguridad con los químicos. Pulse aquí para leer el blog del primer equipo y aquí para leer el segundo.]Con el compromiso de promover un ambiente laboral seguro... Read More
We’re approaching the end of National Health Center Week. Health centers across the US serve millions of agricultural workers and their family members, providing a critical link to essential health care services that many otherwise would not be able to access. Confronting numerous compounding barriers that push agricultural workers away from the care they need, health centers step up... Read More
"I began crying because I couldn't breath and my vision was blurred," one unidentified worker said."I had a severe headache, nausea, sore throat and numb feet," another employee said. In the early hours of a foggy summer day last year, 17 agricultural workers near Salinas, California began work transplanting young celery starts. Within hours, they began to fall ill. The night... Read More
Remember when school didn’t start until after Labor Day? Next week, some children will already be heading back to school. School start times were once dictated by the fields; for some agricultural worker families, it still is. It’s worth remembering that, as some kids settle back into school, thousands of other children will be moving with their mobile agricultural worker parents,... Read More
Medical-Legal Partnership: Helping Pregnant Agricultural Workers Avoid Pesticide Exposure with Aaron Voit, Esq.
photo credit: Alan PogueIn the spring, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation announced that 209 million pounds of pesticide active ingredients were used in 2016 across the green fields of the Golden State, ranking 2016 as the third highest-use year on record. In Monterey County, in California’s fog-defined Central Coast where lettuce and other greens grow year-round, nine million... Read More
