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Eye on Farmworker Health E-Newsletter

Farmworker Justice publishes an e-newsletter for health care professionals on issues affecting the health and safety of migrant farmworkers.  Formerly known as the EyeOpener, the newsletter was renamed Eye on Farmworker Health: Current Developments in Research and Policy in 2008.

Eye Opener Vol I  INDEX

Eye Opener Vol II  INDEX

Eye on Farmworker Health Vol III INDEX

FJ Papers, Presentations, and Guides

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 Occupational Health

Policy and Advocacy:

►      Occupational Health Policy 101:  Protections for Farmworkers (PPS)

►      Advocating for Occupational and Environmental Health for Farmworkers (FJ News Spring 2009, page 9)

Reproductive Health and Pesticide Exposure:

►      Reproductive Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure (discussion paper)

►      Reproductive Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure:  Resources fo Farmworker Health Providers (handout)

►      Reproductive Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure:  Issues for Farmworker Health Providers (PPS)

Heat-related Illnesses:

►      Heat-related Illnesses: An Occupational Health Concern for Farmworkers (discussion paper)

►      Heat Stress among Farmworkers:  A Preventable Cause of Injury and Death (MCN Streamline Mar-Apr 2008, page 5)

►       Heat-Related Illnesses Remain a Concern for Farmworkers (MCN Streamline, forthcoming)

Respiratory Health:

►       Respiratory Health Issues for Farmworkers (FJ News Fall 2008, page 9)

►       Topics in the Respiratory Health of Farmworkers (discussion paper)

►       Breathing Easy:  Respiratory Health Topics for Farmworkers (PPS)

Farmworker Children:

►      The Ones the Law Forgot: Children Working in Agriculture (discussion paper)

Pesticide Safety

Pesticide Safety Education for Farmworkers:

►       Bringing Pesticide Right-to-Know Information to Farmworkers (presentation)

►       Giving a Voice to Indigenous Farmworkers in Oregon (FJ News Spring 2009, page 10)

►       Participatory Research in Pesticide Safety:  Indigenous language speaking  farmworkers in Oregon (PPS)

Policy:

►       FJ and EarthJustice Challenge EPA on Pesticides (FJ News Fall 2008, page 1)

►      Lawsuit Settlement in Case for Baby Born without Arms and Legs (MCN Streamline May-Jun 2008, page 6)

►      Noticias del Programa de Monitoreo: Los Trabajadores Agrícolas, Los Pesticidas, y La Reforma Que Tanto Necesitamos (discussion paper)

►      Messages from Monitoring: Farm Workers, Pesticides and the Need for Reform (discussion paper)

►      Más Información del Programa de Monitoreo: El segundo año del Programa del Estado de Washington para el Monitoreo Médico de los Trabajadores Agrícolas (discussion paper)

►      More Messages from Monitoring:  Year 2 of Washington State’s Farm Worker Medical Tracking Program (discussion paper)

►      Indifference to Safety: Florida's Investigation into Pesticide Poisoning of Farmworkers (discussion paper)

Resources for Migrant Health Centers

Topics in Occupational Health:

►       What Clinicians Can Do to Improve Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers (presentation)

►       Learn the Facts about Avian or Bird Flu (guide)

►       Assisting Migrant Health Centers to Address the Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic (presentation; webcast)

Access to Services:

►       Obtaining Unemployment Compensation in the 50 States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (resource)

►       Disaster Relief Available to Farmworkers and the Role Migrant Health Centers Can Play in Securing Them (PPS; webcast; MCN Streamline Jul-Aug 2008, page 4)

Risk Management Series for Migrant Health Centers

►        Referrals to Specialty Care (guide)

►        Off-Site Services (guide)

►        Transportation (guide)

►        Caring for Undocumented Patients (guide)

►        Providing Behavioral Health Services To Mobile Populations (guide)

►        Protect Privacy and Provide Quality Care:  HIPAA and Migrant Patients (MCN Streamline, forthcoming)

Effective Contracts for Specialty Care

►       Establishing Relationships for Specialty Care (MCN Streamline, forthcoming)

►       Contracts and Cooperative Arrangements for Specialty Care (guide)

Workers' Compensation

►       Demystifying Workers' Compensation Law for Clinicians (webcast)

►       Increasing Revenue by Utilizing State Workers’ Compensation Programs (MCN Streamline, forthcoming)

►       Exploring the Meaning of Medical Uncertainty (MCN Streamline November 2006, page 6)

►       Light Duty:  Only Recommend When Available and Appropriate (MCN Streamline Jul-Aug 2007, page 7)

State Workers’ Compensation Guides with Forms:

►       California Workers' Compensation Guide (Part 1)

►     California Workers' Compensation Guide (Part 2)

►     Maine Workers' Compensation Guide

►     Michigan Workers' Compensation Guide

►     Puerto Rico Workers' Compensation Guide

►     North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Guide

►     Tennessee Workers’ Compensation Guide

HIV/AIDS

►       HIV/AIDS and Farmworkers in the US (MCN Streamline Sept-Oct 2008, page 1)

►       Reaching Farmworkers with Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs (presentation)

►       Adapting the Popular Opinion Leader Intervention for Latino Young Migrant Men Who Have Sex With Men (journal article)

►       AIDS and Migrants: Solutions and Recommendations (paper)

►       Directory of US-Mexico HIV/AIDS Service Providers (English, Spanish)

Fotonovelas:

►       Gift of a Lifetime

►       Rude Awakening

►       Man Protect Yourself

►       Comadre

►       Historias del Campo

     A Light at the Store --NEW!

     Married Women Can Get HIV Too --NEW!

     Reality --NEW!

Training and Education materials

Program Development:

►      Using Non-formal Adult Education to Teach Basic Advocacy (PPS)

►      Training Module for use with promotores de salud projects on farmworker children’s environmental health (links to new page)

Children’s Environmental Health Materials:

►      Asthma (brochure)

►      El asma (panfleto)

►      Lead (brochure)

►      El plomo (panfleto)

►      Pesticides (brochure)

►      Pesticidas (panfleto)

Avian Influenza Patient Education Materials:

►     Avian Flu (brochure)

►     La gripe aviar (panfleto)

Useful Links

►  Pesticide Action Network/North America (PANNA)

►  Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides 

►  Environmental Protection Agency’s Pesticides Section

►  National Environmental Education Foundation

►  TOXNET Toxicology Data Network

►  Environmental Working Group

►  Natural Resources Defense Council

►  Northwest Coalition of Alternatives to Pesticides 

►  Washington Toxics Coalition