Seven page document that provides a sample/template emergency preparedness plan.
The Workbook provides a process that can support state, local,and tribal planners as they advance in their efforts to reach all populations—and specifically, special populations—in day-today communication and during crisis or emergency situations.
The Workbook is divided into three primary sections, each representing a major stage in the process of communicating with special populations,and provides a baseline of research plus selected resources that should substantially reduce the work required of health departments to begin this process.
A few sample dental chart review forms/templates.
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- Chart review sheets.doc (127 KB)
- dentalpeerreviewform.pdf (345.57 KB)
This policy is created to outline the process for the management and eventual discharge from service of difficult patients. This includes those who are perceived to be difficult with respect to recurrent hostile behavior, inappropriate use of FHC services, excessive non-compliance (including financial obligations), inappropriate use of controlled substances, or other patterns of behavior that represent excessive lack of respect or responsibility on the part of the patient.
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This two-hour webinar was intended for clinicians and others who are involved in the diagnosis of active TB. The recording consists of a 90-minute web-based seminar followed by a 30-minute question and answer period. This case-based training highlights common basic dilemmas in the differential diagnosis of TB. The seminar was webcast live on July 20, 2011.
Faculty
Lisa Chen, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Philip Hopewell, M.D., University of California, San Francisco
Gisela Schecter, M.D., M.P.H., University of California, San Francisco
Kevin Winthrop, M.D., M.P.H., Oregon Health and Science University
Synopsis
The panel of experts review case scenarios of the most common diagnostic dilemmas in the diagnosis of TB which include basic issues in the recognition of NTM, infectious pneumonia, and cancers.
Participant evaluations include:
This was by far one of the BEST presentations on TB-related topics I have ever had the opportunity in which to participate.
After it was over, the nurses I work with and I sat together and discussed the information we had learned. We also discussed how we could apply the information to our patients. Excellent training!
The presentations are well-structured; interaction between presenters is helpful and engaging. The cases as a whole present a helpful range of situations encountered in diagnosing TB. As a non-clinician, I found it interesting and engaging, too.
I particularly like the interaction between the three presenters during each presentation. It is good to have the other doctors’ thoughts and opinions during each of the presentations.
If it is archived and available, I will probably listen again. Excellent material and so very applicable.
Webpage includes video and audio recording and printed transcript. Print-outs of slides, three to a page, make taking notes easy.
Are You Ready? provides a step-by-step approach to disaster preparedness by walking the reader through how to get informed about local emergency plans, how to identify hazards that affect their local area, and how to develop and maintain an emergency communications plan and disaster supplies kit. Other topics covered include evacuation, emergency public shelters, animals in disaster, and information specific to people with disabilities.
Are You Ready? also provides in-depth information on specific hazards including what to do before, during, and after each hazard type.
This link takes you directly to the full PDF document.
The AIDS Education and Training Centers conduct targeted, multidisciplinary education and training programs for health care providers treating persons living with HIV/AIDS. This website provides a central repository for AETC program and contact information and for training materials developed within the AETC network.
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Published by HRSA's MCHB in September 2011, the chartbook is based on data from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH). This is the second round of the survey; however, some questions were revised since the 2003 survey, and not all findings are comparable to those from the 2003 survey.
Indicators report on the health and well-being of children in rural areas, presenting information on the health status and risk and protective factors experienced by children on a National level.
The Place, Migration, and Health (PMH) network, a diverse group of researchers committed to understanding the links between migration processes and the health of migrants, their families.
The PMH website aims to generate and improve knowledge on the links between migration processes and the health of (im)migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities using across-national lens for research and policy.
The work of the researchers in the PMH network seeks to address knowledge gaps in areas critical for understanding the determinants of immigrant health and to inform intervention and policy opportunities to promote the the health of first-generation immigrants and their offspring.
The Place, Migration, and Health (PMH) network, a diverse group of researchers committed to understanding the links between migration processes and the health of migrants, their families.
The PMH website aims to generate and improve knowledge on the links between migration processes and the health of (im)migrants, their families, and their sending and receiving communities using across-national lens for research and policy.
The work of the researchers in the PMH network seeks to address knowledge gaps in areas critical for understanding the determinants of immigrant health and to inform intervention and policy opportunities to promote the the health of first-generation immigrants and their offspring.
Presentations by Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH):
1. Age Considerations: Impacts on Pesticide Exposure and Health Outcomes
2. How to Identify the Products Your Patients are Exposed to
3. Reporting, Surveillance, Legal Aspects of Pesticide Related Illnesses
4. The Work to Home Pesticide Exposure Pathway: How to Protect Pregnant Women and Children (English and Spanish)
5. Chronic Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure
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- AgeConsiderations_Pesticides_2009.ppt (438 KB)
- NameThatPesticidePresentation_0.ppt (766 KB)
- LegalAspects_2009_0.pdf (420.49 KB)
- Takehome_Pesticides_ENG_0.pdf (1.51 MB)
- Takehome_Pesticides_ESP.pdf (1.47 MB)
- ChronicHealthEffects_PesticidesPresentation_0.ppt (584 KB)
MCN's Pesticide Clinical Guidelines and Pesticide Exposure Assessment Form assist in the recognition and management of acute pesticide exposures in primary care settings.
The pesticide guidelines were adapted from guidelines developed by Dr. Dennis H. Penzell, a former medical director of a Community and Migrant Health Center with experience in large-scale pesticide exposure incidents.
The Acute Pesticide Exposure Form was adapted from the data collection on an acute pesticide exposed patient tool developed by Matthew C. Keifer, MD, MPH, Director of the National Farm Medicine Center, appearing in the EPA's Recognition and Management of Pesticide Exposures, 6th Edition, EPA 2013.
These resources were developed with guidance from MCN's Environmental and Occupational Health Advisory Committee - a panel of healthcare professionals and researchers with expertise in pesticides and migrant health.
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- PesticideClinicalGuidelines_2014Nov.pdf (395.73 KB)
- 2022-Pesticide-Exp-Assessment_ENG.pdf (316.56 KB)
- 2016-08-16 - Acute Pesticide Exposures Clinical Guidelines (Spanish).pdf (203.88 KB)
- 2022_Pesticide-Exp-Assessment_SPA.pdf (626.33 KB)
The following documents are a collection of the best resources available for taking a good occupational health history.
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- WHACS.pdf (122.72 KB)
- WHACS in Spanish.doc (273.5 KB)
- I PREPARE.pdf (65.23 KB)
- PediatricHealthHistoryForm.pdf (59.81 KB)
- MCNConsensusQuestionsENG_SPA.pdf (41.59 KB)
Bilingual form to screen pregnant women for lead exposure. Developed by MCN.
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Guidelines for health care providers from the Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, a program in the California Department of Public Health that helps employers, workers, and others prevent lead poisoning in workers.
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- Lead_Worker_MedicalGuidelines_CA.pdf (313.4 KB)
Clinicial guidelines dealing with children and lead exposure. Special emphasis on working with migrant children.
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This Guide provides information on Mexico's Immunization Schedule, including number of doses and recommended ages.
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- biig-MX-CA.pdf (559.56 KB)
Use the link below to access MCN's Rapid Assessment Tool to help adolescent farmworkers identify agricultural tasks they perform in agriculture and facilitate clinician understanding about the health risks associated with it. Youth worker images are adapted and reproduced with permission from the National Children Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. Images copyrighted through Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
If computers and internet access are unavailable where patient care is provided, the worker assessment sheet and clinician information grid are available in PDF.
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- adol_fw_ rapidrisk_assess_clinician.pdf (3.94 MB)
- adol_rapidrisk_assess_board_2_0.pdf (7.03 MB)
Lifetime Card for adults. MCN, along with CHEC (Community Health Education Concepts), has developed patient-friendly, low literacy, bi-lingual immunization cards for you to use with your clients. The cards are 5x7, and can be printed from your clinic computers.
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- Lifetime Immunization Record_1.pdf (694.02 KB)
- Lifetime Immunization Record-SP _1.pdf (661.04 KB)
To help more pregnant women and new moms get information about caring for their health and giving their babies the best possible start in life, the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) launched text4baby, the first free health text messaging service in the U.S.Text4baby supports moms by providing accurate, text-length health information and resources in a format that is personal and timely, using a channel she knows and uses. Over 85% of Americans own a cell phone and 72% of cell users send or receive text messages.
The Applied Research Center released this report offering the first national data available on the perilous intersection of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system. ARC's Investigative Research package includes a poignant video and Colorlines.com articles which bring to life the story of one family trying desperately to stay together.
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Issue Brief Co-Authored by Health Outreach Partners and the Kaiser Family Foundation
Information provided by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Publication Number: 8249
Publish Date: 2011-10-27
This brief examines how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may impact immigrant families based on data collected from Outreach/Eligibility Workers in four regions of the country and supported by needs data from several health outreach programs around the country. You will note that the pivotal role of Community Health Centers (CHCs) to connect immigrant families to coverage and care is highlighted. Migrant Health Centers and Homeless Health Centers are specifically cited because of their history of pioneering and strengthening many of the models and strategies that will be needed to connect immigrant families to health coverage and care come 2014.
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This issue of Forced Migration Review, features an article about the Strengthening What Works initiative called "Preventing partner violence in refugee and immigrant communities." The article provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation initiative for readers in the humanitarian and public health sectors and features information about MCN's program Hombres Unidos.
This article, by the Center for Global Development, provides information about emigration and a comparison of emigration from poor Europe in the 19th century to emigration from other poor parts of the world to the US today.
Sample clinical protocol for Type I and II Diabetes.
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EthnoMed contains information about cultural beliefs, medical issues and related topics pertinent to the health care of immigrants to Seattle or the US, many of whom are refugees fleeing war-torn parts of the world. Search the site via culture and clinical topics.
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The importance of clinical diagnostic tools and biomonitoring of exposures to pesticides as well the role of clinicians in pesticide reporting and the challenges clinicians face in accurately diagnosing patients exposed to pesticides are described in a presentation by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH and Amy K. Liebman, MPA. Click on the link for an APHA policy resolution underscoring the need for clinical diagnostic tools and biomomitoring of exposures to pesticides. This policy supports the information outlined by in the presentation.
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This is an MCN online course. The primary objective is to ensure clinicians serving migrant and underserved communities are aware of general childhood agricultural safety and health concerns. This will be accomplished in a way that increases the clinicians’ ability to provide effective healthcare to their patients by assessing and understanding agricultural health risks.
An MCN/CDN webcast facilitated by Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM
HEAT ILLNESS CAN BE DEADLY. Every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat, and some even die. These illnesses and deaths are preventable.
OSHA has now posted a new Heat Illness Web Page that includes educational materials in English and Spanish, including low-literacy fact sheets for workers, worksite and community posters, and a public service announcement from Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. The Web page also includes a video from Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels (in English with a Spanish transcript). OSHA will be posting additional materials on the Heat Illness Web page, including a lesson plan that employers can use to train their workers to stay safe in the heat and a heat index Smartphone app.