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WEBINAR - The Nuts and Bolts of Cholinesterase Monitoring for Farmers, Ranchers and Agricultural Workers
Exposure to pesticide and other chemicals can constitute serious health risks to hundreds of thousands of farmers, ranchers, agricultural workers and their families. For many people in rural areas, primary care practices are the only source of reliable healthcare. However, there are numerous barriers to recognizing and treating pesticide and other chemical exposures in the primary care setting.
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Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, University of Washington
Presentations by Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH):
1. Age Considerations: Impacts on Pesticide Exposure and Health Outcomes
2. How to Identify the Products Your Patients are Exposed to
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- Age Considerations ( 449 Kb )
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- How to Identify the Products Your Patients are Exposed to ( 784 Kb )
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- Reporting, Surveillance, Legal Aspects of Pesticide Related Illness ( 431 Kb )
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- How to Protect Women and Children-English ( 2 Mb )
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- How to Protect Women and Children-Spanish ( 2 Mb )
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- Chronic Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure ( 598 Kb )
Clinical Diagnostic Tools and Biomonitoring of Exposures to Pesticides
The importance of clinical diagnostic tools and biomonitoring of exposures to pesticides as well the role of clinicians in pesticide reporting and the challenges clinicians face in accurately diagnosing patients exposed to pesticides are described in a presentation by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH and Amy K. Liebman, MPA. Click on the link for an APHA policy resolution underscoring the need for clinical diagnostic tools and biomomitoring of exposures to pesticides. This policy supports the information outlined by in the presentation.
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The Clinicians Role in Addressing Occupational Health Risks of Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers
This is an MCN online course. The primary objective is to ensure clinicians serving migrant and underserved communities are aware of general childhood agricultural safety and health concerns. This will be accomplished in a way that increases the clinicians’ ability to provide effective healthcare to their patients by assessing and understanding agricultural health risks.
OSHA's Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers
HEAT ILLNESS CAN BE DEADLY. Every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat, and some even die. These illnesses and deaths are preventable.
Occupational Health Policy 101
Introductory overview of occupational health policy by Farmworker Justice.
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- OccupationalHealthPolicy101 2009 ( 7 Mb )
Grasshoppers, Dust and Salsa - An Old Toxin in a New Setting: A Fresh Look at Lead Poisoning in Migrant Populations
This hour long webcast features Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH – a former medical director of a migrant and community health center and a pediatrician with over 20 years of practice serving farmworker and immigrant populations.
Pediatric Lead Exposure Case Study
An interactive lead case study by Susan Buchanan, MD, Linda Forst, MD, MPH, and Anne Evens, MS.
Heat Illness
AgriSafe Webinars
The AgriSafe Network Distance Learning Webinars aims to provide appropriate and timely training opportunities for Network members and affiliates. Through partnering with the National Rural Health Association and the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, the Network has been able to offer a series of fantastic speakers using the web-based Elluminate program.
