empowering farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions since 1981

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)

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) (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, May/June 2009, page 3)

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)

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)

• Factsheet on Medicaid and Farmworkers

• A Guide to Medicaid

• Webinar: The H-2A Program-A Basic Overview for Healthcare Providers
• Fact Sheet on the H-2A Program

Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients

•  Meeting the Needs of Patients with Limited English Prificiency; Guidelines for Federally Funded Healthcare Providers

• Language Access and Health Disparities Webcast

Effective Contracts for Specialty Care

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

•  Contracts and Cooperative Arrangements for Specialty Care (guide)

Risk Management Series for Migrant Health Centers

•  Referrals to Specialty Care (guide)

•  Off site Services

•  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)

Farmworker Children:

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

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

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

Children's Environmental Health Materials:

•  Asthma (English 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)