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Lake Apopka Farmworkers Environmental Health Project

This reports outlines the findings of a survey designed to document the health problems of African-American, Hispanic, and Haitian former Lake Apopka farmworkers, many of whom are experiencing significant and life-threatening health problems which they believe to be connected to their exposure to multiple sources of environmental contamination.

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Diabetes and Mexicans: Why the Two Are Linked

An essay that appeared in CDC's publication, Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy, January 2005

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The Green Motel

That’s what some women farmworkers call the fields and orchards in which they face persistent sexual assaults. As if backbreaking work, low wages and pesticide poisoning weren’t enough… (article appeared first in Ms Mazazine's summer online issue)

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New CDC Online STD Modules Offer Free Continuing Education for Clinicians

The CDC Division of STD Prevention announces the availability of its new online STD education modules for clinicians. The Self Study STD Modules for Clinicians offers free CME, CNE, and CEU for each of seven STD topics: chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), vaginitis, herpes simplex virus (HSV) and human papillomavirus (HPV). Each module covers epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and partner services information along with an interactive case study.

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MCN Sickness Prevention & Practicing Good Hygiene SPN/ENG

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Immigrants as Younger and More Diverse

The figures show that immigration trends are forming a unique generational divide: those immigrants over 40 are largely white, while those under 40 are increasingly Hispanic, Asian and from other minority groups.

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Health Center Data

A core set of information appropriate for reviewing the operation and performance of health centers.

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Effort to remove lead from Mexican treats: Candies, chiles, dried grasshoppers can poison children

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The Dark Side of Dairies

A broken system leaves immigrant workers invisible -- and in danger. High Country News, 8/2009

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