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May/June 2006 Heptalk Listserv Archive
Two successful adult immunization programs are featured, one in Pennsylvania and one in New York. Each involves cooperation between state and local health departments and community clinics in order to provide immunizations, including Hepatitis A and B, to migrant seasonal farmworkers.
EXTOXNET
Objective, science-based information about pesticides - written for the non-expert
Digale Adios a las Plagas Comic Book
This Spanish educational comic book was developed by Wake Forest University and offers practical preventative tips to keep unwanted pests away from your home. To view the English Version, search for "Send Pests Packing Comic Book."
Farmworker Justice
Works to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice. armworkers and their families to reduce and eliminate their exposures to pesticides.
National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
1-800-858-7378 or npic@ace.orst.edu
Are your adult patients with HIV and hepatitis C getting all the vaccines they need?
Please give your HIV- or HCV-infected patients copies of the educational pieces below to help them stay informed about the vaccines they need.
If you have hepatitis C, which vaccinations do you need?
The chart shows which vaccinations you should have to protect your health.
If you have HIV infection, which vaccinations do you need?
The chart below shows which vaccinations you should have to protect your health.
Agricultural Health Study
This NIEHS/EPA study is investigating the effects of environmental, occupational, dietary, and genetic factors on the health of the agricultural population. Over 89,000 individuals are participating in the project. This includes private and commercial pesticide applicators as well as the spouses of these applicators.
Cultural Competence Health Practitioner Assessment (CCHPA)
National Center for Cultural Competence has designed the CCHPA to promote cultural competence as an essential approach for practitioners in the elimination of health disparities among racial and ethnic groups.
Love heals; hostility hurts
New research shows that hostile marriages slow recovery from wounds.
MCN HEART (Health and Environment Analysis Resource Tool)
An interactive web-based geographic application which provides support to field clinicians looking for information, tools, referrals and services in environmental/occupational health for their migrant patients.
Understanding Avian Influenza, University Of Maryland
Documentation of a positive IPV screen among community hospital clinicians
This two-part study examines primary care clinicians' chart documentation and attitudes when confronted by a positive waiting room screen for intimate partner violence (IPV) and concludes that mandatory waiting room screening for IPV does not result in high levels of referral
or safety planning by PCPs.
Avian Influenza (Fowl Plague)
Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book", Part IV History, host range, geographic distribution, transmission, clinical signs, etc.
Additional Vaccine As Preparations
HHS Buys Additional Vaccine As Preparations For Potential Influenza Pandemic Continue, October 27,2005
