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.

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AOEC Pesticide Training Modules for Training Clinicians

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Rachel Carson Council

Rachel Carson Council -Serves as a clearinghouse and library with information at both scientific and layperson levels on pesticide-related issues.

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Pesticide Education Center

Pesticide Education Center - Organization dedicated to educating workers and the general public about the health effects of pesticide exposure

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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.

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EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs -provides resources for pesticide safety, chemical information, pesticide registration, and legislation.

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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.

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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.

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Farmworker Pesticide Project

Works with farmworkers and their families to reduce and eliminate their exposures to pesticides.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC)

1-800-858-7378 or npic@ace.orst.edu

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National Pesticide Medical Monitoring Program

Provides informational assistance for clinicians in the assessment of human exposure to pesticides.

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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

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PAN Pesticide Data Base

One-stop location for current toxicity and regulatory information for pesticides. Easy access to reporting guidelines for each state.

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EXTOXNET

Objective, science-based information about pesticides - written for the non-expert.

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California Department of Pesticide Regulation

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Organophosphate Pesticide Exposure and Neurobehavioral Performance

Article published in Environmental Health Perspectives, May 2006.
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In Utero Exposure to DDT and DDE and Neurodevelopment Among Young Mexican American Children

Abstract of an article published July, 2006 in Pediatrics.
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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
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Washington State Department of Health

Pesticide Program: Illness Monitoring and Prevention

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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.
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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.

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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. 
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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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¡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.

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Darle un Buen Uso a los Pesticidas

A Spanish language trifold with pesticide safety information.
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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.

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Pesticide and Pregnancy Handout

Pesticide and Pregnancy Handout, English and Spanish, from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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Pesticide Usage by Crop, Acreage or Volume (Weight)

Useful Databases and links to find pesticide usage by crop, acreage or volume (weight).
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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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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.

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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.
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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.

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Poison Control Center

1-800-222-1222/ 24 hours per day