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Focus Group on Immigration and Immunization
In July of 2005, MCN conducted a focus group with migrant women in a new receiving community on the Eastern Shore of Maryland to help understand their experiences regarding immunization.
The focus group was held at the one of the participant’s home, an established immigrant household. The town house apartment located in a growing immigrant neighborhood offered a comfortable, safe and trusting environment for the group’s participants.
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Interviews: State programs addressing immunization needs
The following report summarizes research conducted by the Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) in the summer of 2008. The report is an effort to identify state programs that address the immunization needs of adults and migrant and seasonal farmworkers across the country.
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Medicalspanish.com
This site holds many medical Spanish material, including a comprehensive medical Spanish dictionary, complete with audio.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
California Department of Public Health offers numerous bilingual educational materials regarding childhood lead poisoning prevention.
Don’t take lead home from your job
Spanish brochure to help workers prevent taking lead into their homes from the CA Dept. Public Health, Occupational Health Branch - The Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
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Do You Cook with Traditional Pottery?It May Contain Lead!
Bilingual flyer from the CA Department of Public Health.
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The Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
The Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (OLPPP) is a program in the California Department of Public Health that helps employers, workers, and others prevent lead poisoning in workers.
Recommendations for the Medical Management of Adult Lead Exposure
An expert panel review of the scientific literature on lead and health - Environmental Health Perspective, March 2007
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Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development lead information
NIEHS Lead Page
Lead information from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
EPA Lead Page
Lead is a toxic metal that was used for many years in products found in and around our homes. Lead also can be emitted into the air from motor vehicles and industrial sources, and lead can enter drinking water from plumbing materials. Lead may cause a range of health effects, from behavioral problems and learning disabilities, to seizures and death. Children six years old and under are most at risk.
ToxFAQs for lead
A lead fact sheet from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
State and Local Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs
To access information on a specific state or local area, click on the map or scroll down and pick the state or local name from the list provided.
CDC Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Approximately 250,000 U.S. children aged 1-5 years have blood lead levels greater than 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the level at which CDC recommends public health actions be initiated. Lead poisoning can affect nearly every system in the body. Because lead poisoning often occurs with no obvious symptoms, it frequently goes unrecognized. CDC’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is committed to the Healthy People goal of eliminating elevated blood lead levels in children by 2010.
World Atlas of BCG Policies and Practices
Variations in BCG vaccination practices impact the interpretation of TB diagnostics, such as the widely used Tuberculin Skin Test (TST). The World Atlas of BCG Policies and Practices will help clinicians in your country and around the world make better diagnostic decisions concerning TB infection.
Promotora Webcasts
Migrant Health Promotions (MHP) and MCN have jointly sponsored a series of webcasts on promotora programs in migrant health. This link takes you to a list of these webcasts which are archived and can be viewed at a convenient time for you.
Health centers let doctors help low-income patients at lower risk
This article pubished in Modern Healthcare Online, October, 2008 discusses the role of physicians in Federally Funded Health Clinics. The opening paragraph of the article states "Community health centers that serve low-income and uninsured patients have always been a landing spot for mission-driven physicians. Now they have also become a haven for some who are feeling squeezed by malpractice insurance costs and other dministrative burdens of private practice."
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Mesothelioma.com
An online resource for mesothelioma patients and their families.
U.S. EPA Asbestos Program
This website provides access to information about asbestos. You may access general information about asbestos and its health effects. You may also read about what to do if you suspect asbestos in products, in your home or in your school. There are some resources listed in Spanish.
The Nurse Oncology Education Program (NOEP)
The Nurse Oncology Education Program (NOEP) is a nonprofit project of the Texas Nurses Foundation funded by the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), providing cancer education for nurses in all fields of practice.
In Texas alone, it is estimated that over 97,000 people will be diagnosed yearly with cancer (American Cancer Society, 2008). And we know that racial/ethnic minorities and the financially disadvantaged are diagnosed with cancer later and have a shorter and lower survival rate than non-minorities.
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http://www.noep.org/
