Looking for complete and dependable information in plain language about heart, lung, and blood diseases and sleep disorders in Spanish? Check out the NHLBI's Spanish-language topics on the Diseases and Conditions Index (DCI)
First do no harm : Protect patients by making sure all staff receive yearly influenza vaccine!
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- VaccinateHCWorkers.pdf (81.75 KB)
Our members enjoy professional support, educational programs, and numerous opportunities for participation in association decision making. With your support, we can carry out our mission to advance the art and science of dental hygiene, and to promote the highest standards of education and practice in the profession.
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An interactive lead case study by Susan Buchanan, MD, Linda Forst, MD, MPH, and Anne Evens, MS.
NIOSH information on heat stress/illness.
Photonovelas in English and Spanish. Produced by the North Carolina Farmworker Project.
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- Heat_Illness_Novela_English.pdf (1.41 MB)
- Heat_Illness_Novela_Spanish.pdf (1.42 MB)
- fotonovela_directions.doc (77.5 KB)
The Lancet's H1N1 Resource Center is a collaborative effort by the editors of over 40 Elsevier-published journals and 11 learned societies who have agreed to make freely available on this site any relevant content. All papers have been selected by a Lancet editor, grouped by topic and fulltext pdfs made available to download free of charge.
Charles W. Schmidt, Swine CAFOs & Novel H1N1 Flu: Separating Facts from Fears, Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 117, Number 9, September 2009
A broken system leaves immigrant workers invisible -- and in danger. High Country News, 8/2009
MMWR August 7, 2009 / 58(RR09);1-11
The Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) Clinicians’ Network and Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) serve as National Partners to the HRSA Health Disparities Collaboratives. One of the critical roles for both organizations is helping health centers identify their migrant and homeless patients. Both organizations share a commitment to the principal that mobility should not be a barrier for health care access or continuity of care. What follows is a set of succinct and helpful suggestions for how to better identify homeless and migrant patients in your practice.
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- IdentifingMigrantAndHomelessPatients.pdf (30.13 KB)
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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- EasternShoreImmunization.doc (78.5 KB)
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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- InterviewsGraphicReportCDC.pdf (144.18 KB)
This site holds many medical Spanish material, including a comprehensive medical Spanish dictionary, complete with audio.
California Department of Public Health offers numerous bilingual educational materials regarding childhood lead poisoning prevention.
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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- Lead_TakeHome_CA_esp.pdf (478 KB)
Bilingual flyer from the CA Department of Public Health.
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- PotteryFlyer_Eng_Esp_CA.pdf (827.21 KB)
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.
An expert panel review of the scientific literature on lead and health - Environmental Health Perspective, March 2007
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- MedicalManagement_AdultLeadExposure.pdf (519.54 KB)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development lead information
Lead information from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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.
A lead fact sheet from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry