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Un libro para parteras / A Book for Midwives
Appropriate information and training empower midwives and other health workers to provide the care needed to reduce dangers in childbirth. Developed with the participation of dozens of community-based midwives, midwifery trainers, and medical specialists, Hesperian’s new edition of Un libro para parteras/A Book for Midwives has been reorganized and extensively revised to better support care during labor and management of obstetric emergencies, and expanded to include lifesaving reproductive health information.
Organophosphate Pesticides and Child Health
A web-based CME course offers health care providers up-to-date scientific information regarding health risks for children exposed to OP pesticides.
Family Violence Initiative Manager Position
Children's Environmental Health for Health Care Providers
A list of free online resource compiled by the EPA
Esperanza Project Materials - New Handbook to Aid Female Farmworkers
The new handbook educates low-wage immigrant women about their rights in the workplace and the steps they should take if they are confronted with harassment or discrimination. To obtain free copies, contact the SPLC at 1-800-591-3656
Komen Study Profiles Eight Communities Nationwide 'Most Affected' by Breast Cancer
Susan G. Komen for the Cure on Thursday released a report that profiles eight communities "most affected" by breast cancer and launched a campaign that aims to curb disparities and remove gaps in breast cancer-related care, the Washington Post reports. The eight communities profiled in the report, titled "Breast Cancer Mortality Report: Closing the Gaps in Eight Communities," are: Chicago; Madison County, Miss.; Moultrie County, Ill.; McDowell County, W.Va.; Edgecombe County, N.C.; Harlem, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Wayne County, Mich., which includes Detroit.
FDA Approves First U.S. Vaccine for Humans Against the Avian Influenza Virus H5N1
The vaccine could be used in the event the current H5N1 avian virus were to develop the capability to efficiently spread from human to human, resulting in the rapid spread of the disease across the globe. Should such an influenza pandemic emerge, the vaccine may provide early limited protection in the months before a vaccine tailored to the pandemic strain of the virus could be developed and produced
Reaching the Underserved eNewsletter March 2007
This March issue highlights "Spring: A Season of Clearing, Planting, and Expectation."
Cultural Competency CME Portal
This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health (OMH), offers the latest resources and tools to promote cultural competency in health care. You may access free online courses accredited for continuing education credit as well as supplementary tools to help you and your organization promote respectful, understandable, and effective care to your increasingly diverse patients.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine Pesticide Educational Materials
Pesticide educational materials for promotoras and the community. Includes promotora lesson plans and consmer educatiaonal materials about pesticide safety and pregnancy.
Boys also should get HPV shots, medical experts say
Some medical experts are calling for boys, in addition to girls, to be routinely vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. Although men can't get the cervical cancer that can result from HPV, they can get HPV and pass it on to their partners
Kids with asthma should get flu shots
Children with asthma should get flu shots to protect them, but only 3 in 10 do, U.S. health officials said.
Lake Apopka Farmworkers Environmental Health Project
This reports outlines the findings of a survey designed to document the health problems of African-American, Hispanic, and Haitian former Lake Apopka farmworkers, many of whom are experiencing significant and life-threatening health problems which they believe to be connected to their exposure to multiple sources of environmental contamination.
Hepatitis Charting
This resource provides a straightforward tool to use to develop effective hepatitis risk assessment with adult clients through your clinic charting system.
Immunization Schedules software for PDAs/Shots 2007
Shots 2007 is freeware for personal use. Shots 2007 is a quick reference guide to the Immunization Schedules, a collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the 2006-2007 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
CDC issues ACIP recommendations for the use of HPV vaccine
These recommendations represent the first statement by the
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on the use
of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine licensed by
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on June 8, 2006. This
report summarizes the epidemiology of HPV and associated
diseases, describes the licensed HPV vaccine, and provides
recommendations for its use for vaccination among females aged
9-26 years in the United States. March 2007.
Immunization Update, March 2007
The National Rural Health Association (NRHA)
Operates an online job bank
smalltownmdjobs.com
Online services aimed at recruiting doctors and nurses to rural locations
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
The American Academy of Physician Assistants uses the same database, as do other professional organizations,
