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Report Pesticide Exposures
Follow this link to easily report pesticide poisonings in any state. Many states have mandatory reporting requirements for clinicians.
Occupational Exposure History Tools
Follow this link to easy to questions for screening occupational exposures and taking occupational exposure histories.
Ihea International Health Education Alliance
Appropriate health education programs for use by individuals and organizations on the local, national and international levels. Multiple cancer handouts in multiple languages.
November/December 2007 Heptalk Listserv Archive
Includes an article about the screening of people from countries where Hep B is endemic. The second part offers resources for clients from Central America who speak languages other than Spanish, such as the indigenous Mixteco. Though the study was completed in Eastern North Carolina, the resource list presented is national in scope and very broad.
January 2008 Heptalk Listserv
An opportunity to join live webcast on "Innovative HIV/STI Prevention Approaches."
Another Success for Hepatitis A Vaccine
An editorial by Carol J. Baker, M.D. from The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 357:1757-1759, October 25, 2007, Number 17.
Linguistico Maya in Antigua, Guatemala
An educational institution approved by the government of Guatemala. The program is based on one-to-one communication, which increases the learners confidence in their spanish language learning experience.
Hepatitis A Vaccine versus Immune Globulin for Postexposure Prophylaxis
An article from The New England Journal of Medicine, Volume 357:1685-1694, October 25, 2007 Number 17 by John C. Victor, Ph.D., M.P.H., Arnold S. Monto, M.D., Tatiyana Y. Surdina, M.D., Saida Z. Suleimenova, M.D., Gilberto Vaughan, Ph.D., Omana V. Nainan, Ph.D., Michael O. Favorov, M.D., Ph.D., Harold S. Margolis, M.D., and Beth P. Bell, M.D., M.P.H
GHEC Global Health Education Consortium
Foreign Language Study and International Health Work: Selected Resources
MCN's 2007 Mexican Migrant Guide: Recommended Vaccines for Recent Immigrants from Mexico
MCN's new guide with recommended vaccines for recent immigrants from Mexico!
CA Dept of Pesticide Regulation Information for Physicians
This useful link offers clinicians information on how to report a pesticide incidents in CA, training materials and other pesticide resources.
Predicting Casualty Severity and Hospital Capacity
This planning tool helps hospitals predict the pattern of casualty severity, and their capacity to provide care after a mass casualty event.
Hospital Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist
The Hospital Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist helps hospitals assess and improve their preparedness for responding to pandemic influenza. Because of differences among hospitals (e.g., characteristics of the patient population, size of the hospital/community, scope of services), each hospital will need to adapt this checklist to meet its unique needs and circumstances.
December 2004 HepTalk Listerv
Welcome! The December 2004 edition of the Listserv
focuses on hepatitis awareness and on screening tools for
assessing risk factors and candidates for vaccination.
November 2004 HepTalk Listserv Archive
In our first bulletin, we offer an annotated list of key hepatitis websites. If any of these links
are not working, you can copy and paste them directly into your search engine.
July 2007 HepTalk Listserv
Continuing with the information on interpreting vaccine schedules from Mexico in the May-June Listserv we offer the Migrant Clinician Network’s new 2007 Mexican Migrant Guide: Recommended Vaccines for Recent Immigrants from Mexico, guide, and a vaccine equivalency
chart for the state of Arizona. In addition, an important new resource, Health Care Language Services Implementation Guide is available through the Office of Minority Health.
August 2007 HepTalk Listserv
This month we offer information about an important opportunity to receive adult hepatitis B vaccine resources. In addition, we’re pleased to alert you to a case-based hepatitis continuing education offered by one of our CDC partners in the Viral Hepatitis Education and Training program.
September 2007 HepTalk Listserv
In honor of National Adult Immunization Week,
September 24-28, we call your attention to an excellent source for patient education
materials in many different languages, some of which we have featured here before. The
IAC or Immunization Action Coalition is another one of our CDC partners in the Viral
Hepatitis Education and Training program. They offer many different kinds of patient
education materials about Hepatitis A and B vaccines. They’re easy to access and easy to
download as pdf files, so they can be printed and distributed at your clinic, and they are
available in Spanish.
Pesticide Clinical Guidelines
MCN Clinical guidelines to address pesticide exposure. Developed by Dr. Dennis H. Penzell based on his experience as medical director of a Migrant and Community Health Center that responded to one of the country's largest pesticide poisoning incidents.
January 2005 HepTalk Listserv
Welcome to the January 2005 edition of the Listserv. There are four parts to this edition: 1. a list of Hepatitis C Coordinators for all states with HepTalk participants; 2. Hablamos Juntos, a website with resources and information on interpreters, translations, and interpreter training; 3. a link to an article from the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors on integrating HIV and hepatitis screening and prevention; 4. A funding opportunity which may be interesting to some HepTalk participants.
