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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.
SAGE Minnesota's Cancer Screening Program
The Sage Screening Program is a statewide comprehensive breast and cervical cancer screening program whose primary objective is to increase the proportion of age-appropriate women who are screened for breast and cervical cancer.
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.
National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
1-800-858-7378 or npic@ace.orst.edu
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.
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.
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.
Avian Influenza (Fowl Plague)
Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book", Part IV History, host range, geographic distribution, transmission, clinical signs, etc.
Avian influenza
Methods for the disease control, OIE /World organization for Animal Health
Understanding Avian Influenza, University Of Maryland
Love heals; hostility hurts
New research shows that hostile marriages slow recovery from wounds.
