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- El Premio Kugel & Zuroweste a la Justicia en la Salud
- Your Voice Matters: Photovoice Project
Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services
This checklist is intended to heighten the awareness and sensitivity of personnel to the importance of cultural and linguistic cultural competence in health, mental health and human service settings. It provides concrete examples of the kinds of beliefs, attitudes, values and practices which foster cultural and linguistic competence at the individual or practitioner level.
National Assessment of the Pesticide Worker Safety Program
View reports from this EPA program that brought together a wide variety of program stakeholders who participated in a an assessment of the Worker Protection Standard and workgroups focusing on general training issues, a national pesticide safety train-the-trainer pilot, and a hazard communication pilot and issues with the pesticide applicator cetification regulation and training program.
August 2006 Heptalk Listserv Archive
The topic of this resource is Liver Cancer and Hep B and C. We present two articles in full and three abstracts on the issues.
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Funders Online
A searchable directory of European and American foundations maintained by the European Foundation Centre.
The Belmont Report
The Belmont Report is a report created by the former United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (which was renamed to Health and Human Services) entitled "Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research" and is an important historical document in the field of medical ethics. The report was created on April 18, 1979 and gets its name from the Belmont Conference Center where the document was drafted.
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Regulatory Changes in the EPA's Worker Protection Standard
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing changes to the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), the agricultural worker regulation intended to provide basic workplace protection for millions of farmworkers.
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Oklahoma Cares: Oklahoma Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program
The State of Oklahoma will provide Medicaid benefits to uninsured women under 65, who are identified through the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) and are in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer (including pre-cancerous conditions and early stage cancer).
The TB Skin Test (Mantoux)
This fact sheet gives information about how the skin test is given and read, and what the results mean. Available in 12 other languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Treatment for Latent TB Infection (LTBI)
This fact sheet contains information about how latent TB infection (LTBI) is treated and how active TB disease can be prevented. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Instructions for Collecting Sputum for TB (Tuberculosis)
This fact sheet contains step-by-step directions for giving a sample of sputum. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Khmer (Cambodian), Hmong, Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Active TB Disease
This fact sheet gives general information about active TB disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment. Also available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer, Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
TB Contact Investigations
This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important. Also available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer, Laotian ,Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese
Human Testing of Pesticides
FJF/MCN comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency against using human subjects to test pesticides.
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Washington State Department of Health
Pesticide Program: Illness Monitoring and Prevention
Working Immigrants
A weblog about the business of immigrant work: employment, compensation, legal protections, education, mobility, and public policy.
ACIP Provisional recommendations for use of Td and Tdap vaccine in pregnant women
Preventionof Tetanus,Dhiphteria and Pertussis among pregnant women. ACIP voted on June 30, 2006.
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School-age vaccinations more complicated, expensive. USA Today, July 2006.
Senior Wheels USA - 800.246.6010
Free electric wheelchairs available to those who qualify. Medicare and Medi-Cal accepted.
Wigs for Kids
Wigs for Kids is a non-profit organization providing hair replacement solutions for children affected by hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns and other medical conditions. Donation of hair is accepted.
National Organization of Social Security Claimant's Representatives - 800.431.2804
Provides referral to private attorney when a Social Security hearing is scheduled. Free or reduced cost legal services available.
