A number of organizations exist to provide resources for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and for those people working with them.
For example:
The Migrant Clinicians Network: http://www.migrantclinician.org
The National Center for Farmworker Health: http://www.ncfh.org
Provider Resources / Education
On-line Medical Spanish Course (under development) from Hispanic Center of Excellence : http://www-sbp.bcm.tmc.edu/HispanicHealth/MedSpan/index.html
Other resources:
Dermatology
The University of Iowa Department of Dermatology, Dermatologic Image Database (note: images are copyrighted and cannot be downloaded ) http://tray.dermatology.uiowa.edu/DermImag.htm
Pesticides
The Georgia Poison Center (800-282-5846): http://www.georgiapoisoncenter.com/index.html
Protective clothing, script for worker education, in English (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/docs/as31900.html ) or in Spanish (http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/docs/as32000.html )
EPA booklet, "Steps to Protect Yourself from Pesticides" (in Spanish): http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/nasd/docs3/EP97004A.html
Poster from CDC/NIOSH: (click poster for downloadable version ; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Infectious Disease/ HIV/ AIDS
The Body: An Aids and HIV Information Resource - An award-winning site with a 30,000+ article library on-line; consumer oriented materials, including POZ a electronic magazine for PWA. Spanish resources are included (including a POZ in spanish).
Chronic Diseases
The Prevention and Treatment of
Complications of Diabetes Mellitus: A Guide
for Primary Care Practitioners ,Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease
Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division
of Diabetes Translation . Publication date: January 1, 1991
Diabetes In America, 2nd edition, National Diabetes Data Group, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. NIH Publication No. 95-1468. 1995 .
Diabetes Nutrition Series (patient education pamphlets in English or Spanish, available in pdf format) from NIDDK.
Diabetes Dictionary in Spanish or English, NIDDK, 1998.
Heart Attack Symptoms website in spanish, Heart Information Network(Heartinfo.org)
TA Arkury, CK Austin, SA Quandt, R Saavedra, Enhancing Community Participation in Intervention Research: Farmworkers and Agricultural Chemicals in North Carolina, Health Education & Behavior, 26(4): 563-578 (August 1999). (a)
TA Arkury, SA Quandt, CK Austin, J Preisser, LF Cabrera, Implementation of EPA's Worker Protection Standard Training for Agricultural Laborers: An Evaluation Using North Carolina Data, Public Health Reports, 114: 459-468 (September/October 1999).(b)
D Causey , Study of Hypertension Among Migrant Farmworkers in Middle Georgia, MCN Streamline, 2(4): 1,4, July/August 1996.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Building Understanding to Prevent and Control Diabetes Among Hispanics/Latinos: Selected Annotations, Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 1996.
Census of Agriculture, USDA, Press Release, 2/1/99: http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/php/agri/county.php?st[]=13&imgmap=agri_state
JP Despres, B Lamarche, P Mauriee, B Cantin, GR Dagenais, S Moorjani, PJ Lupien, Hyperinsulinemia as an Independent Risk Factor for Ischemic Heart Disease, New England Journal of Medicine 334(15): 952-7. April 11,1996.
G.E. Alan Dever, Migrant Health Status: Profile of a Population with Complex Health Problems, MCN Monograph Series, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin TX, 1991.
JL Frey, HK Jahnke, EW Bulfinch, Differences in Stroke Between White, Hispanic, and Native American Patients: The Barrow Neurological Institute Stroke Database, Stroke 29(1): 29-33, January 1998.
TE Gamsky, SA McCurdy, P Wiggins et al, Epidemiology of Dermatititis among California Farm Workers, Journal of Occupational Medicine 34(3): 304-310, 1992.
DC Goff, MZ Nichaman, W Chan, DJ Ramsey, DR Labarthe, C Ortiz, Greater Incidence of Hospitalized Myocardial Infarction Among Mexican Americans Than Non-Hispanic Whites: The Corpus Christi Heart Project, 1988-1992, Circulation 95(6): 1433-1440, March 18, 1997.
Benjamin D. Gold, Helicobacter pylori and Gastric Cancer: is there a reasonable relationship? Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Physician Assistants, Atlanta, May 1999.
SM Haffner, BD Mitchell, MP Stern, HP Hazuda, JK Patterson, Decreased Prevalence of Hypertension in Mexican-Americans, Hypertension 16(3): 225-232. September 1990.
SM Haffner, H Miettinen, SP Gaskill, MP Stern, Decreased Insulin Secretion and Increased Insulin Resistance are Independently Related to the 7-Year Risk of NIDDM in Mexican-Americans, Diabetes 44(12): 1386-1391. December 1995.
SM Haffner, R D'Agostino, L Mykkanen, T Russell, B Howard, M Rewers, J Selby, P Savage, MF Saad, Insulin Sensitivity in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes: Relationship to cardiovascular risk factors: the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study, Diabetes Care 22(4): 562-568. April 1999.
CL Hanis, D Hewett-Emmett, TK Bertin, WJ Schull, Origins of US Hispanics: Implications for Diabetes, Diabetes Care 14(7,Suppliment 3): 618-627. July 1991.
MI Harris, Summary (Chapter 1) in Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition, National Diabetes Data Group, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH Publication No. 95-1468. 1995. http://diabetes-in-america.s-3.com/contents.htm
RS Kington, JP Smith, Socioeconomic Status and Racial and Ethnic Differences in Functional Status Associated with Chronic Diseases, American Journal of Public Health 87(5): 805-810, May 1997.
RD Lindeman, LJ Romero, R Hundley, AS Allen, H Chi Lang, RN Baumgartner, KM Koehler, DS Schade, PJ Garry, Prevalences of Type 2 Diabetes, the Insulin Resistance Syndrome, and Coronary Heart Disease in an Elderly, Biethnic Population, Diabetes Care 21(6): 959-966. June 1998.
BD Mitchell, SM Haffner, HP Hazuda, JK Patterson, MP Stern, Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease Risk in Mexican Americans, Annals of Epidemiology 2(1-2): 101-106, January/March 1992.
BD Mitchell, LA Almasy, DL Rainwater, JL Schneider, J Blangero, MP Stern, JW MacCluer, Diabetes and Hypertension in Mexican American Families: Relation to Cardiovascular Risk, American Journal of Epidemiology 149(11): 1047-1056, June 1, 1999.
TP Monath et al, The Search for Vaccines Against Helicobacter pylori.
Infections in Medicine 15(8):534-535,539-546, 1998. http://womenshealth.medscape.com/SCP/IIM/1998/v15.n08/m3316.mona/m3316.mona-01.html
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review, Incidence of Treatment for End-stage Renal Disease Attributed to Diabetes Mellitus, by Race/Ethnicity - Colorado, 1982-89. Vol 41(44): 845-8. November 6, 1992.
Daniel P. Morgan, Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, 4th edition, Environmental Protection Agency, 1989. http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/txt/fairs/19729 (note update below).
National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS), USDA . Reports utilized include Agricultural Chemical Usage, Vegetable Summary 1996, (7/17/97 ); Agricultural Chemical Usage, Fruit Summary 1997, (07/21/98 ); and, Agricultural Chemical Usage, Field Crop Summary 1997, (5/20/98).
National Agricultural Workers Survey, Department of Labor (1997): http://www.dol.gov/dol/asp/public/programs/agworker/report/main.htm
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Diabetes Clearinghouse, National Institutes of Health. Diabetes in Hispanic Americans. 1999. http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/diabetes/pubs/hispan/hispan.htm
G Peter, C Hall, N Halsey, S Marcy, L Pickering (eds.), Committee on Infectious Diseases, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1997 Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 24th edition, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1997.
SA Quandt, CK Austin, TA Arcury, ME Summers, RM Saavedra, Agricultural Chemical Safety Training Materials for Farmworkers: Review and Annotated Bibliography, Journal of Agromedicine, 6(1): 3-24, 1999.
JR Reigart and JR Roberts, Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning (5th Edition), National Pesticide Telecommunications Network, Environmental Protection Agency, 1999. http://ace.orst.edu/info/nptn/rmpp.htm (a hard copy version can be obtained from the EPA at 800-490-9198)
Review of Optometry Online: Handbook of Ocular Disease Management. http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/hbhome.htm
G Rust, Health Status of Migrant Farmworkers: A Literature Review and Commentary, American Journal of Public Health 80(10): 1213-1217, October 1990.
R Sakiyama, Recognition and Management of Diabetic Complications, Family Practice Recertification 21(2): 70-88. February 1999.
T Seeman, C Mendes de Leon, L Berkman, A Ostfeld, Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease among Older Men and Women: a Prospective Study of Community-dwelling Elderly, American Journal of Epidemiology 138(12): 1037-49. December 15, 1993.
PD Sorlie, E Backlund, NJ Johnson, E Rogot, Mortality by Hispanic Status in the United States, JAMA 270(20): 2464-2468, November 24, 1993.
MP Stern and BD Mitchell, Diabetes in Hispanic Americans (Chapter 32) in Diabetes in America, 2nd Edition, National Diabetes Data Group, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH Publication No. 95-1468. 1995. http://diabetes-in-america.s-3.com/contents.htm
MP Stern, C Gonzalez, BD Mitchell, E Villalpando, SM Haffner, HP Hazuda, Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Type II Diabetes in Mexico City and San Antonio, Diabetes 41(4): 484-492, April 1992.
J Sundquist, MA Winkleby, Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Mexican American Adults: A Transcultural Analysis of NHANES III, 1988-1994, American Journal of Public Health 89(5): 723-730, May 1999.
D Villarejo and SL Baron, The Occupational Health Status of Hired Farm Workers, Occupational Medicine: State of the Art Reviews 14(3): 613-633. July-September 1999.
VA Wilk, Farmworker Occupational Health and Field Sanitation, National Migrant Referral Project, Inc, Austin TX, March 1986 (reprinted in Migrant Health Newsline: Clinical Supplements 1985-1987, Migrant Clinicians Network, Austin TX).
Parasitic Disease:
L Barat, Management of the Febrile Migrant Farm Worker: Part I of a two-part series on malaria and the farmworker population, MCN Streamline 4(6):1,3-4, December 1998/January 1999.
L Barat and S Mathur, Malaria and Migrant Workers: Part II of a two-part series on malaria and the farmworker population, MCN Streamline 5(1):1-4,8, February/March 1999.
GA Bechtel, Parasitic Infections Among Migrant Farm Families, Journal of Community Health Nursing, 15(1):1-7, 1998.
RJ Brashear, MA Winkler, JD Schur, H Lee, JD Burczak, HJ Hall and AA Pan, Detection of antibodies to Trypanosoma cruzi among blood donors in the southwestern and western United States. 1. Evaluation of the sensitivity and specificity of an enzyme immunoassay for detecting antibodies to T. cruzi, Transfusion 35(3): 213-218, 1995.
Center for Disease Control, Division of Parasitic Diseases (CDC-DPD),Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), 1998 http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/chagas.htm
Center for Disease Control, Division of Parasitic Diseases (CDC-DPD),Parasites and Health: Taeniasis, 1999. http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/Taeniasis.htm
S Ciesielski, T Handzel and M Sobsey, The Microbiologic Quality of Drinking Water in North Carolina Migrant Labor Camps, Public Health Briefs 81(6): 762-764, 1991.
S Ciesielski, JR Seed, JC Ortiz and J Metts, Intestinal Parasites among North Carolina Migrant Farmworkers, American Journal of Public Health 82(9): 1258-1262, 1992.
S Ciesielski, JR Seed, J Estrada and E Wrenn, The Seroprevalence of Cysticercosis, Malaria, and Trypanosoma cruzi Among North Carolina Migrant Farmworkers, Public Health Reports 108(6): 736-741, 1993.
M Dawson, PT Johnson, L Feldman, R Glover, J Koehler, P Blake, and KE Toomey, Probable Locally Acquired Mosquito-Transmitted Plasmodium vivax Infection - Georgia, 1996, MMWR Weekly 46(12):264-267, March 28, 1997. http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047001.htm
LL Halcon, Migrant Farmworkers and Infectious Diseases: A Review of the Literature, MCN Streamline 3(3): 1-4, May/June 1997.
R Jaramillo, JP Bryan, J Schur and AA Pan, Prevalence of Antibody to Trypanosoma Cruzi in Three Populations in Belize, American Journal of Tropical Medicine 57(3): 298-301, 1997.
LV Kirchhoff, AA Gam and FC Gilliam, American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas Disease) in Central American Immigrants, American Journal of Medicine 82:915-920, 1987.
LV Kirchhoff, Chagas Disease: American Trypanosomia, Infectious Disease Clinics of North American 7(3): 487-502, 1993a.
LV Kirchhoff,Current Concepts: American Trypanosomiasis (Chagas' Disease)-A Tropical Disease Now in the United States, New England Journal of Medicine 329(9): 639-644, 8/26/93 (available in full text through OVID).
DA Leiby, MH Fucci and RJ Stumpf, Trypanosoma cruzi in a low- to moderate-risk blood donor population: seroprevalence and possible congenital transmission, Transfusion 39(3):310-315, March 1999.
VB Newbern ,Dealing with infectious and contagious diseases in the South: 1900-1945, in J Lancaster and A Bushy (eds), Family and Community Health: The Journal of Health Promotion and Maintenance 16(1):11-18, April 1993.
B Ungar, E Iscoe, J Cutler and JG Bartlett, Intestinal Parasites in a Migrant Farmworker Population, Archives of Internal Medicine 142(3):513-515, March 1986.
EA VandeWaa, JD Henderson, GL White and TJ Nowatzke, Common Helminth Infections: Battling Wormlike Parasites in Primary Care, Clinician Reviews 8(5): 75-92, May 1998.
E Weiss, Strongyloides Stercoralis, in eMedicine:Emergency Medicine (An On-line Medical Reference), 1998. http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/index.shtml
JR Zucker, Changing Patterns of Autochthonous Malaria Transmission in the United States: A Review of Recent Outbreaks, Emerging Infectious Disease 2(1), January-March 1996. http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol2no1/zuckerei.htm
General Information:
Ted Conover, Coyotes: A journey through the secret world of America's illegal aliens. New York: Vintage Books, 1987.
Daniel Rothenberg, With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today, New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998.