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School-age vaccinations more complicated, expensive. USA Today, July 2006.
Oklahoma Cares: Oklahoma Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program
The State of Oklahoma will provide Medicaid benefits to uninsured women under 65, who are identified through the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) and are in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer (including pre-cancerous conditions and early stage cancer).
The TB Skin Test (Mantoux)
This fact sheet gives information about how the skin test is given and read, and what the results mean. Available in 12 other languages: Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Treatment for Latent TB Infection (LTBI)
This fact sheet contains information about how latent TB infection (LTBI) is treated and how active TB disease can be prevented. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer (Cambodian), Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Instructions for Collecting Sputum for TB (Tuberculosis)
This fact sheet contains step-by-step directions for giving a sample of sputum. Available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Khmer (Cambodian), Hmong, Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Active TB Disease
This fact sheet gives general information about active TB disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment. Also available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer, Laotian, Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese.
Working Immigrants
A weblog about the business of immigrant work: employment, compensation, legal protections, education, mobility, and public policy.
TB Contact Investigations
This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important. Also available in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Hmong, Khmer, Laotian ,Oromo, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Tibetan, Vietnamese
Five Steps to Safer Health Care
This fact sheet tells consumers what they can do to get safer health care.
NAWS Cover letter
Overview and Trends from the National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS). This report was produced by Aguirre, International and is based on data collected through the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS).
Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services
This checklist is intended to heighten the awareness and sensitivity of personnel to the importance of cultural and linguistic cultural competence in health, mental health and human service settings. It provides concrete examples of the kinds of beliefs, attitudes, values and practices which foster cultural and linguistic competence at the individual or practitioner level.
The California Farm Labor Force Overview and Trends from NAWS
Overview and Trends from the National Agricultural Workers Survey.
Pesticides Nearby...But Staying Healthy Comic Book
This English educational comic book targets migrant and seasonal farmworker families to educate parents about children's risks to pesticide exposure and ways to minimize these risks. To view the Spanish version, search for "Aunque Cerca...Sano."
National Assessment of the Pesticide Worker Safety Program
View reports from this EPA program that brought together a wide variety of program stakeholders who participated in a an assessment of the Worker Protection Standard and workgroups focusing on general training issues, a national pesticide safety train-the-trainer pilot, and a hazard communication pilot and issues with the pesticide applicator cetification regulation and training program.
ACIP Provisional recommendations for use of Td and Tdap vaccine in pregnant women
Preventionof Tetanus,Dhiphteria and Pertussis among pregnant women. ACIP voted on June 30, 2006.
Human Testing of Pesticides
FJF/MCN comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency against using human subjects to test pesticides.
Patient Advocate Foundation(PAF) - 800.532.5274 or 866.512.3861
The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) is a national nonprofit organization that provides education, legal counseling, and referrals to cancer patients and survivors concerning managed care, insurance, financial issues, job discrimination, and debt crisis matters.
Washington State Department of Health
Pesticide Program: Illness Monitoring and Prevention
High Pesticide Exposure Found among Migrant Workers
ENN Article 7/19/2006 — Erin Gartner, Associated Press
Easter Seals
Easter Seals offers a variety of services to help people with disabilities address life's challenges and achieve personal goals. Easter Seals helps provide free wheelchairs and other medical related equipment, like walkers, commodes, bathtub rails, bathtub chairs, crutches, transfer benches, electric wheelchairs and scooters, on a short- or long-term basis. Some programs require deposits that are completely refundable.
