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Adolescent Farmworkers at Risk
Professional education for healthcare providers on health risks for adolescent farmworkers.
The Vaccine Education Center
provides complete, up-to-date and reliable information about vaccines to parents and healthcare professionals. Information and resources are available in English and Spanish.
Environmental History Tools for Pediatric Health Care Providers
This sight offers a preliminary environmental history screening form, a comprehensive environmental history form and an environmental history taking primer. It is part of NEETF's Pediatric Environmental History Initiative, a multi-year project to incorporate environmental history taking into the clinical practice of pediatricians and nurses.
The Green Motel
That’s what some women farmworkers call the fields and orchards in which they face persistent sexual assaults. As if backbreaking work, low wages and pesticide poisoning weren’t enough… (article appeared first in Ms Mazazine's summer online issue)
Roadmaps for Clinical Practice, Improving Immunization: Addressing Racial and Ethnic Populations
Primer to help physicians improve immunization rates, especially in minority populations. The primer includes tools to help physicians ensure that patients are up-to-date with their vaccinations. Studies have shown that many individuals do not receive the vaccinations they need. Immunization gaps are seen mostly in adolescents and adults as well as with racial and ethnic minorities. Adolescent and adult immunization rates average less than 70 percent nationally.
Improving Immunization Rates among Underserved Ethnic and Minority Populations
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. (2002). A Report on Reaching Underserved Ethnic and Minority Populations to Improve Pediatric Immunization Rates.
4woman.gov: The National Women's Health Information Center
This web site and toll-free call center were created to provide FREE, reliable health information for women everywhere.
4girls Health
Site promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
¡OJO! con tu vista
(Take Care With Your Eyes) is a lower literacy series of four fotonovelas. Although all of the stories address the issue of eye care and injury prevention.
Migrant Health Promotion
Migrant Health Promotion is committed to strengthening the capacity of farmworker families and their communities to improve their health through collaborative peer education and advocacy.
New CDC Online STD Modules Offer Free Continuing Education for Clinicians
The CDC Division of STD Prevention announces the availability of its new online STD education modules for clinicians. The Self Study STD Modules for Clinicians offers free CME, CNE, and CEU for each of seven STD topics: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), vaginitis, herpes simplex virus (HSV) and human papillomavirus (HPV). Each module covers epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and partner services information along with an interactive case study.
Immigration, Race/Ethnicity, and Social and Economic Factors as Predictors of Breastfeeding Initiation
This research study showed that immigration status was strongly associated with increased breastfeeding initiation, implying that cultural factors are important in the decision to breastfeed.
Tool Kit for the Uninsured and Underinsured
Not having health insurance - or being "underinsured" and not having enough health insurance - can be a frightening and worrisome experience. But there are many options you can explore to get the coverage and care you need, including free- and low-cost prescription drug assistance as well as free- and low-cost health checkups and screening programs.
Guidelines for the Care of Farmworkers' Children
Book published jointly by MCN and the American Academy of Pediatrics to highlight special considerations for farmworker children.
The Perils of Needles to the Body
New York Times, Feburary 01, 2005
Immunization Hotline Changes
Beginning March 15, 2005 the CDC-INFO Contact Center, began answering immunization questions placed by phone from the public and health professionals. Previously, the National Immunization Information Hotline answered phone-in immunization questions. The new contact center phone number is (800) 232-4636 (i.e., [800] CDC-INFO).
Why was Carlitos born this way?
He's one of three Immokalee babies who were born horribly disfigured to mothers and fathers who work together in Florida's fields.
Diabetes and Mexicans: Why the Two Are Linked
An essay that appeared in CDC's publication, Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, January 2005
