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Five on Friday | July 14, 2017: Unaccompanied minor's new book, plus strengthening a Lakota community
July is prime picnic time. What do you have in your basket? After you spread out the blanket and the fixings, you can take a minute to relax and read some updates in health justice for the mobile poor, as recommended by MCN staff.Candace, Specialist in Clinical Systems and Women’s Health, shared the new book, “Dreams and Nightmares / Sueños y Pesadillas,” in which author and refugee Liliana... Read More
Excerpt from New Issue of Streamline: What to do when a patient with active TB leaves the country and stops treatment?
[Editor's Note: Picture this: A woman arrives in South America from the US, and heads to the doctor. She's midway through her treatment for active tuberculosis -- until the doctor tells her she's fine and can stop treatment early. If you're a Health Network Associate, this situation would make you very, very concerned. This scenario happened recently to Rob Corona. Here is his story,... Read More
For many of us, the quintessential taste of the summer season is a ripe tomato. The fruits of this summer treat are now lining the produce aisles at grocery stores around the country. But as many of us in rural areas know, tomatoes require labor-intensive care by agricultural workers at every stage of production, like planting out seedlings, staking, harvesting, and packing. Throughout the... Read More
Five on Friday | July 7, 2017: Afraid immigrants forgo healthcare and health centers key to violence prevention
Whew, it’s hot out there. Time to head to the lake or the pool or the beach… Wherever you take refuge from the heat, be sure to bring along some good reading about health justice. Here are a few suggestions from MCN staff: Karen, CEO, sent last week’s New York Times article that features MCN. How could we forget to include it in last week’s Five on Friday? Well, here it is, a... Read More
Ricardo Garay (left) with Premiere Cares AwardThis week, we say goodbye to Ricardo Garay, our longtime Health Network Manager, as he heads to a new and very exciting position with the Dell Medical School at University of Texas, Austin, where he will be the program manager for the Department of Population Health’s Division of Community Outreach and Health Equity. Garay is thrilled to be working so... Read More
Last month, we wrote about a pesticide poisoning that sickened over 50 agricultural workers in Bakersfield; the neurotoxic pesticide chlorpyrifos is thought to be responsible. A month later and 200 miles further north, another pesticide poisoning was reported in a local California paper, in Monterey. This time, all 18 workers who felt nauseated and dizzy went to the emergency room where... Read More
In June, after a decades-long career dedicated to improving the lives and health of agricultural workers, Marc Schenker, MD, MPH, is celebrating his retirement. Dr. Schenker is the founding director and current co-director of University of California, Davis’s Migration and Health Research Center, which focuses on improving the health of migrant communities through migrant health research... Read More
Five on Friday | June 30, 2017: Williams Unified helps students graduate, and Libya's deadliest route
Fourth of July weekend is upon us! As we celebrate Independence Day this coming week, let’s toast to the work that we do collectively as clinicians and advocates to serve the marginalized portions of our society -- in hopes of bringing a brighter, healthier, more equitable future to all people living in this incredible country of immigrants. Jillian, Director of Education and... Read More
In the final minutes of Pride Month, we caught up with Luis Fernando Ramirez, Executive Director of Entre Hermanos, to hear how the LGBTQ Latino community in Seattle, Washington has changed over the years, and to better understand as clinicians how we can best provide health services to this often underserved segment of our community. Entre Hermanos has been providing social, educational,... Read More
“Our families pick up and leave what was once a familiar place to them and their children [to seek] better opportunities in life, always starting over, mostly without supporting family or friends to trust.” - Sonia McCormack What makes a healthy childhood? Healthy food, clean air, clean water, safe housing -- there are many elements that merge to provide the fertile ground for a healthy... Read More
