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[Editor’s Note: We are in the final days of Farmworker Awareness Week, and we’d like to highlight one MCN program working to improve environmental health for farmworkers. Migrant Clinicians Network’s Environmental and Occupational Health team in Maryland has developed and distributed a wealth of materials on pesticides and workplace safety, to assist clinicians in the exam room and to support... Read More
Tuberculosis is America’s biggest public health threat, greater than Zika, Ebola, and dengue fever combined. The latest news from the CDC that TB cases have increased in the last year underscored what activists have been voicing for several years: we don’t have enough funding in the US to keep TB in check, let alone work toward elimination. Yesterday, MCN’s Chief Medical Officer, Ed... Read More
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
¡Un nuevo informe impactante sobre las lesiones graves en los lugares de trabajo, y como los trabajadores de salud comunitarios pueden ser la solución: Nuevo serie de entrenamiento de MCN!
View in EnglishLa semana pasada, la Administración de Seguridad y Salud Ocupacional (ASSO/OSHA) publicó un informe que compartió información sobre su primer año de recoger informes de incidentes relacionados con lesiones graves. En virtud de sus nuevas reglas que pusieron en efecto el año pasado, cualquier accidente fatal que sucede en un lugar de trabajo debe ser reportado a OSHA dentro de ocho... 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
