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MCN Topic: Pesticides
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Chronic Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure
Presentation developed by the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, University of Washington.
Files
- Chronic Health Effects Pesticides Presentation.ppt( 5,954.56 Kb )
Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings Provider Training
Mike Rowland, MD, MPH brings his 20 years experience as a front line provider of migrant healthcare and his board certification in occupational medicine to offer viewers an excellent overview on pesticides for the primary care provider.
Pesticide exposure and lead poisoning template for migrant clinicians
U.S. EPA, Region 5 developed this newsletter template to help clinicians integrate assessment and prevention into clinical practice.
Files
- Pesticides And Lead.pdf( 229.86 Kb )
El Terror Invisible
A comic book produced by the PACE Project. You can also order these for $10 from the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084.
Files
- Elterror.pdf( 8,362.45 Kb )
Aunque Cerca...Sano Pesticide Comic Book
This 16-page comic book targets migrant and seasonal farmworker families to educate parents about children's risks to pesticide exposure and ways to minimize these risks. Available in English and Spanish.
Files
- Aunque Comic Book.pdfAun que cerca...Sano( 9,714.16 Kb )
- Pesticides Nearby But Healthy Eng 2007.pdfPesticides Nearby But Healthy( 13,607.15 Kb )
Aunque Cerca...Sano Pesticide Training Manual
A step by step educational manual to train outreach workers and promotoras de salud about pesticides. Includes exercises to help workshop participants help parents protect children from pesticide expsoure.
Files
- Spanish Manual.pdf( 11,338.01 Kb )
- English Manual.pdf( 11,238.55 Kb )
AOEC Pesticide Training Modules for Training Clinicians
Files
- Aoec Pesticide Resources.doc( 250.88 Kb )
EPA Worker Protection Pesticide Safety Materials
A listing with links and ordering information to the EPA's bilingual posters, handbooks, guides, videos, CDs and other materials about pesticide safety and how to recognize and treat heat related illnesses.
Files
- Epa Worker Protection Pesticide Safety Materials.doc( 399.36 Kb )
Farmworker Pesticide Exposure--EHP 2006
Environmental Health Perspectives (May 2006)offers a mini monograph of farmworker pesticide exposure. Link to six papers now availalbe on-line.
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Organophosphate Pesticides and Child Health
A web-based CME course offers health care providers up-to-date scientific information regarding health risks for children exposed to OP pesticides.
Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides provides pesticide fact sheets, action alerts and information on what to do in a pesticide emergency.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides - promotes healthy solutions to pest problems and publishes the Journal on Pesticide Reform.
Pesticide Action Network of North America
Pesticide Action Network of North America - promotes healthier, more effective pest management and houses the Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database - a database of pesticide toxicity and regulatory information. The reference section provides general information about pesticides and their health effects.
Rachel Carson Council
Rachel Carson Council -Serves as a clearinghouse and library with information at both scientific and layperson levels on pesticide-related issues.
Pesticide Education Center
Pesticide Education Center - Organization dedicated to educating workers and the general public about the health effects of pesticide exposure
Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund
Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund - Sister organizations dedicated to fighting dangerous pesticide use in California communities.
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs -provides resources for pesticide safety, chemical information, pesticide registration, and legislation.
American Association of Poison Control Centers
American Association of Poison Control Centers Offers a listing of regional Poison Control Centers. Poison Control Centers provide information regarding possible or actual environmental or occupational exposures and recommended treatments. The website offers education for children and adults.
Why was Carlitos born this way?
He's one of three Immokalee babies who were born horribly disfigured to mothers and fathers who work together in Florida's fields.
Farmworker Pesticide Project
Works with farmworkers and their families to reduce and eliminate their exposures to pesticides.
Link
http://www.fwpp.org/
Pesticide Exposure and Treatment Education for Healthcare Providers
This course is for clinicians and outreach workers and is produced by The Casa y Campo Project at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in partnership with the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Northwest AHEC. Please contact Thomas Arcury -tarcury@wfubmc.edu to order a cd.
Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings
This edition covers about 1,500 pesticide products in an easy-to-use format. Toxicology, signs and symptoms of poisoning, and treatment are covered in 19 chapters on major types of pesticides. It is edited by Dr. Routt Reigart and Dr. James Roberts, and is published by EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs. Both English and Spanish versions are available.
Agricultural Health Study
This NIEHS/EPA/NIOSH study is investigating the effects of environmental, occupational, dietary, and genetic factors on the health of the agricultural population. Over 89,000 individuals are participating in the project. This includes private and commercial pesticide applicators as well as the spouses of these applicators.
National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)
1-800-858-7378 or npic@ace.orst.edu
National Pesticide Medical Monitoring Program
Provides informational assistance for clinicians in the assessment of human exposure to pesticides.
National Pesticide Practice Skills Guidelines for Medical & Nursing Practice
Outlines the knowledge and skills that health professionals need to have about pesticides. This document is part of a national initiative aimed at ensuring that pesticides issues become integral elements of education and practice of primary care providers. English and Spanish
Files
- Neetf Pesticide Practice Guidelines.pdf( 21,370.73 Kb )
- Neetf Habilidades Para La Practica Pesticidas.pdf( 6,843.29 Kb )
PAN Pesticide Data Base
One-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. Easy access to reporting guidelines for each state.
EXTOXNET
Objective, science-based information about pesticides - written for the non-expert.
Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Performance
Article published in Environmental Health Perspectives, May 2006.
Files
- O Pneuro.pdf( 1,453.84 Kb )
In Utero Exposure to DDT and DDE and Neurodevelopment Among Young Mexican American Children
Abstract of an article published July, 2006 in Pediatrics.
Files
- Pediatrics Ddt.doc( 271.36 Kb )
North Carolina FW Birth Defect Report
Assessment of Maternal Occupational Pesticide Exposures during Pregnancy and Three Children with Birth Defects: North Carolina, 2004. Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch Division of Public Health, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, North Carolina
May 18, 2006
Files
- Agmart Nc Report.doc( 3,630.08 Kb )
Washington State Department of Health
Pesticide Program: Illness Monitoring and Prevention
Send Pests Packing Comic Book
The educational comic book was developed by Wake Forest University and offers practical preventative tips to keep unwanted pests away from your home.
Files
- Send Pests Packing.pdf( 18,412.22 Kb )
- Digale Adios A Las Plagas.pdf( 14,655.73 Kb )
National Assessment of the Pesticide Worker Safety Program
View reports from this EPA program that brought together a wide variety of program stakeholders who participated in a an assessment of the Worker Protection Standard and workgroups focusing on general training issues, a national pesticide safety train-the-trainer pilot, and a hazard communication pilot and issues with the pesticide applicator cetification regulation and training program.
A Little Bit of Poison...Will It Kill You?/Poco Veneno….No Mata? A Pesticide Education Manual for Community Health Workers
This manual (in English and in Spanish) is a guide for lay health educators or promotores de salud to assist them with community-based pesticide education activities. The manual offers information about health risks from pesticide exposure and ways to lessen these risks. Also, it includes useful information and tips to successfully work in the community.
Files
- Veneno Manual Sp.pdf( 48,108.16 Kb )
- Poison Manual Eng.pdf( 47,336.32 Kb )
Pesticide Drift Sickens Farmworkers, 9/22/06
About 45 farmworkers harvesting fruit in the orchards of the San Joaquin Delta in California were exposed to Di-Syston, an acutely toxic organophosphate pesticide, sprayed by a crop duster treating a nearby asparagus field, according a Sacramento Bee article published on September 22, 2006.
Files
- Pesticide Drift Sickens Farmworkers.doc( 312.32 Kb )
Poco Veneno...¿No Mata? - Pesticide Comic Book
Features a story about a family with a child who was poisoned in the home by pesticides. Through the family’s encounter with a local clinic and an in-home visit from the neighborhood promotora de salud, the Spanish comic book offers information on what pesticides are, why one should be concerned about pesticide exposures, how to minimize pesticide exposures and how to respond to a pesticide poisoning. Produced by MCN, CERM, Paso del Norte Health Foundation.
Files
- Poco Veneno Pesticide Comic.pdf( 51,348.80 Kb )
A Migrant Farmworker Occupational Health Reference Manual
This comprehensive manual was developed by the New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health and the Migrant Clinicians Network for the diagnosis and treatment of occupational injuries in migrant and seasonal farmworkers. The information in the manual does focus on agricultural occupations in the Northeast.
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- 02 Title And Acknowledgement.pdfTitle and acknowledgement( 2,707.59 Kb )
- 03 Cultural Competency.pdfCultural Competence: General Guidelines ( 6,349.76 Kb )
- 04 Occupation Apple Workers.pdfApples: Worker Profile, Irritants and Pesticides( 14,517.57 Kb )
- 05 Occupation Blueberry Workers.pdfBlueberries: Worker Profile, Irritants and Pesticides( 7,549.41 Kb )
- 06 Occupation Dairy Workers.pdfDairy Workers: Worker Profile, Injuries and Exposures( 4,240.41 Kb )
- 07 Occupation Tobacco Workers.pdfTobacco Workers: Worker Profile, Injuries and Exposures( 5,483.51 Kb )
- 08 Spanish Creole Body Parts.pdfBody Parts in Spanish and Creole( 629.53 Kb )
- 09 Shoulders.pdfMusculoskeletal Injuries: Clinician Training Module( 4,544.48 Kb )
- 10 Lower Back.pdfLower Back Pain: Clinician Training Module( 3,032.33 Kb )
- 11 Patient Education Musculoskeletal.pdfPatient education: musculoskeletal( 9,951.25 Kb )
- 12 Patient Education Skin Irritations.pdfPatient education: skin irritations.pdf( 8,983.74 Kb )
- 13 Patient Education Animal Handling.pdfPatient education: animal handling( 1,606.82 Kb )
- 14 Flyers.pdfflyers( 3,384.70 Kb )
- 15 Workers Compensation.pdfworkers compensation( 2,538.12 Kb )
- 16 Reference Manual Index.pdfreference manual index( 889.28 Kb )
Pesticide Educational Materials for Promotoras - Wake Forest University
Pesticide educational materials for promotoras and the community. Includes promotora lesson plans and consumer educational materials about pesticide safety and can be purchased from Wake Forest University.
¡Fuera los Quimicos! ¡Ya Llegó la Alternativa!
A Spanish language comic books that explains the dangers of pesticides and offers practical, less toxic approaches to pest control. Produced by the Center for Environmental Resource Management at UTEP.
Files
- Fuera Qu Camicos Ya Lleg Ci La Alternativa Lr.pdf( 17,078.06 Kb )
Darle un Buen Uso a los Pesticidas
A Spanish language trifold with pesticide safety information.
Files
- Tr Captico Pesticidas.pdftrifold_pesticidas_sp.pdf( 76,351.11 Kb )
Environmental Training Modules for Promotoras
Bilingual training modules on Asthma, Lead, Pesticides, Water and Sanitation and Popular Education. Produced by Farmworker Justice as part of their Clean Environment for Healthy Kids. Contributing authors include Amy Liebman, Shelley Davis and Virginia Ruiz.
Pesticide and Pregnancy Handout
Pesticide and Pregnancy Handout, English and Spanish, from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.
Files
- Pesticideand Pregnancy Handout English.pdf( 36,163.69 Kb )
- Pesticideand Pregnancy Handout Spanish.pdf( 39,757.86 Kb )
Pesticide Usage by Crop, Acreage or Volume (Weight)
Useful Databases and links to find pesticide usage by crop, acreage or volume (weight).
Files
- Pesticide Usage By Crop.doc( 271.36 Kb )
Radio Novelas- Las Historias de Melesio/Spanish Radio Novelas about Environmental Health(En Español)
Spanish radio novelas called, Las Historias de Melesio. With funding from the EPA Region III, MCN partnered with Rural Family Development of the Virginia Council of Churches to produce five radio novelas to promote environmental health information.
Note: All files are .mp3 type. To download and then listen, right-click and select "Save target as..." on the desired link above. To listen inside of the browser without downloading, simply click the desired link.
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- Radio Theatre 01 Getting Rid Of Pests.mp3Radio Theatre 01 Getting Rid of Pests( 39,713.04 Kb )
- Radio Theatre 02 Protecting Yourself From Pesticides.mp3Radio Theatre 02 Protecting Yourself from Pesticides / Protegandose de los pesticidas( 33,538.32 Kb )
- Radio Theatre 03 Be Careful With Water And Lead.mp3Radio Theatre 03 Be Careful with Water and Lead( 32,953.32 Kb )
- Radio Theatre 04 Protecting Kids From Pesticides.mp3Radio Theatre 04 Protecting Kids from Pesticides( 46,657.08 Kb )
- Radio Theatre 05 Respiratory Problems.mp3Radio Theatre 05 Respiratory Problems( 39,860.64 Kb )
LO QUE BIEN EMPIEZA...BIEN ACABA - Pesticide Prevention During Pregnancy Comic Book
MCN Spanish educational comic book that addresses pesticide exposure in women of reproductive age. LO QUE BIEN EMPIEZA...BIEN ACABA: Consejos para las mujeres para prevenir daños a la salud y a sus bebés causados por pesticidas.
Files
- Embarazopesticidasfinal.pdf( 41,437.74 Kb )
Pesticide Clinical Guidelines
MCN Clinical guidelines to address pesticide exposure. Developed by Dr. Dennis H. Penzell based on his experience as medical director of a Migrant and Community Health Center that responded to one of the country's largest pesticide poisoning incidents.
Files
- Pstcd Clncl Gdlns Fnl.pdf( 1,212.50 Kb )
Reporting Pesticides in North Carolina
North Carolina now has a mandatory reporting rule for clinicians. Follow this link to easily report pesticide exposure in North Carolina.
