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May 2005 Heptalk Listserv Archive
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month. In light of this, we're posting a special edition for the month of May. The Migrant Clinicians Network is happy to release the position paper "Hepatitis Screening, Immunization and Testing for Mobile Populations and Immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean." This paper clarifies standard hepatitis recommendations for these populations.
Aunque Cerca...Sano Trainer's Manual (Spanish PDF)
Florida/Pesticide 2 Palm Beach Post 2005
Probe of ill workers cited to expose flaws, Farmworker advocates say the state mishandled a case in which 20 migrants were sickened.
Florida/Pesticide 3 Palm Beach Post 2005
Maria Fernandez, 42, of Cancun, Mexico, sits outside a shoddy trailer she shares with other workers. "Everybody around here always has headaches, coughs, running noses," she said. "It has to do with that dust on the plants from the chemicals. You are always breathing it in."
Pepin Comic: MMR, English
Pepin Comic: Hep B, Spanish
Aunque Cerca...Sano Trainer's Manual (English PDF)
A step by step educational manual to train outreach workers and promotoras de salud. Include exercises to help workshop participants help parents protect children from pesticide expsoure.
Si Necesita Condones
A simple sign to use in public bathrooms and/or your waiting area to let patients know where and how to get condoms from the clinic.
Florida/Pesticide 1 Palm Beach Post 2005
Since many exposures come during those field applications, the risks - to farmworkers and to nearby residents who can be affected if the chemicals drift - can occur much more frequently. "You are working in one field, and the tractor passes in the next field spraying," says Epifanio, 58, a veteran Mexican farmworker who asked that his full name not be used, out of fear for his job. "The wind brings it to you. It happens to somebody around here every single day."
Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule-United States, October 2005-September 2006
Chilhood Immunization Brochure in Spanish
Adult Immunization Brochure in Spanish
Immunization Poster in Spanish
Vacunacion un gesto de amor
MCN Daily Foot Care in Vietnamese
MCN Streamline article "Cultural Competency in Practice"
MCN Daily Footcare Flyer, English and Spanish
MCN Daily Foot Care in Russian
A1C Testing from Ascencia HealthCare
What's Your Number? A1C
Basic A1C information for patients from BD Consumer Healthcare.
If You Have Diabetes Know Your Blood Sugar Levels
Basic A1c information from the National Diabetes Education Program.
