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- El Premio Kugel & Zuroweste a la Justicia en la Salud
- Your Voice Matters: Photovoice Project
The Green Motel
That’s what some women farmworkers call the fields and orchards in which they face persistent sexual assaults. As if backbreaking work, low wages and pesticide poisoning weren’t enough… (article appeared first in Ms Mazazine's summer online issue)
Roadmaps for Clinical Practice, Improving Immunization: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Populations
Primer to help physicians improve immunization rates, especially in minority populations. The primer includes tools to help physicians ensure that patients are up-to-date with their vaccinations. Studies have shown that many individuals do not receive the vaccinations they need. Immunization gaps are seen mostly in adolescents and adults as well as with racial and ethnic minorities. Adolescent and adult immunization rates average less than 70 percent nationally.
Improving Immunization Rates among Underserved Ethnic and Minority Populations
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. (2002). A Report on Reaching Underserved Ethnic and Minority Populations to Improve Pediatric Immunization Rates.
4woman.gov: The National Women's Health Information Center
This web site and toll-free call center were created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.
4girls Health
Site promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
¡OJO! con tu vista
(Take Care With Your Eyes) is a lower literacy series of four fotonovelas. Although all of the stories address the issue of eye care and injury prevention.
Migrant Health Promotion
Migrant Health Promotion is committed to strengthening the capacity of farmworker families and their communities to improve their health through collaborative peer education and advocacy.
AAP's Community Pediatrics
Offers a collection of resources on cultral competence.
Adolescent Farmworkers at Risk
Professional education for healthcare providers on health risks for adolescent farmworkers.
The Vaccine Education Center
provides complete, up-to-date and reliable information about vaccines to parents and healthcare professionals. Information and resources are available in English and Spanish.
Tool Kit for the Uninsured and Underinsured
Not having health insurance - or being "underinsured" and not having enough health insurance - can be a frightening and worrisome experience. But there are many options you can explore to get the coverage and care you need, including free- and low-cost prescription drug assistance as well as free- and low-cost health checkups and screening programs.
Guidelines for the Care of Farmworkers' Children
Book published jointly by MCN and the American Academy of Pediatrics to highlight special considerations for farmworker children.
The Perils of Needles to the Body
New York Times, Feburary 01, 2005
Immunization Hotline Changes
Beginning March 15, 2005 the CDC-INFO Contact Center, began answering immunization questions placed by phone from the public and health professionals. Previously, the National Immunization Information Hotline answered phone-in immunization questions. The new contact center phone number is (800) 232-4636 (i.e., [800] CDC-INFO).
Why was Carlitos born this way?
He's one of three Immokalee babies who were born horribly disfigured to mothers and fathers who work together in Florida's fields.
Diabetes and Mexicans: Why the Two Are Linked
An essay that appeared in CDC's publication, Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, January 2005
"Hepatitis B Vaccination Coverage among Adults— United States, 2004" (CDC report).
Rural Women's Health Project
The RWHP, founded in 1992, develops community-based educational materials. independently as well as in collaboration with other grass-roots organizations. Their projects focus on the health issues of rural women and their families, with a special emphasis on the challenges faced by Spanish-speaking farmworking families.
Link
http://www.rwhp.org/
