The Native Literacy Center in Oaxaca, Mexico was founded by a group of professionals and native educators from Oaxaca to support literacy projects for indigenous peoples. This center is involved with preservation, helping indigenous peoples to write their languages, print and publish individual works, write their histories, and record their knowledge for future generations. People come from Central and South America to this Center, where they learn how to produce their own works. The center also works with education, teaching indigenous peoples how to write their languages so that they are able to produce their own works.
This digital archive features a number of recordings and texts in the indigenous languages of Latin America. Materials are available in Mixteco, Mam, Nahuatl, Otomi, Triqui, Zapoteco, and many other indigenous languages. These materials give information about the cultures of these indigenous groups. Original works of literature in indigenous languages are also published on this site. AILLA works to preserve written forms of these languages, but it also collects grammars, dictionaries, ethnographies, and research notes that can be used as teaching materials. Most of the archive is free and available to the public.
- Online dicitionary in a variety of languages available under the "Foreign Language Aides for Latin America and Iberia" section, including Mixteco, Nahuatl, and Zapoteco. http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/latinam.htm
- Mixtec-Spanish Online Dictionary http://aulex.ohui.net/es-mix/?idioma=en
- Mixtec dictionary created by the SIL: http://www.sil.org/mexico/mixteca/00i-mixteca.htm
- Mam-Spanish Dictionary http://www.cscd.osakau.ac.jp/user/rosaldo/Mam_Esp_DICC_COM.html
This website, owned by SIL International, provides detailed background information about less common languages. Many of the indigenous languages have profiles.
Note: Wikipedia also contains a variety of sites describing the basic characteristics of each of the indigenous languages.
Western NC Workers Center: Located in Morganton, North Carolina, the Western NC Workers Center is a non-profit group of community organizers. This organization currently has a number of outreach and education projects which work to uphold the rights of immigrant and low wage employees in Western North Carolina. They also work with high levels of Guatemalan immigrants who speak indigenous languages. One of their projects designed to reach indigenous language speakers is their Promotora Education project, which uses scenario picture books without words to educate low literacy populations about health and work safety.
Contact:
Francisco Risso (828) 432-5080 fjrisso@hotmail.com
Mayan Ministries: Organized through the Diocese of Palm Beach in Florida, Maya Ministries works to address the needs of Mayan immigrants to the area. These Mayan workers speak up to 25 different dialects of Mayan indigenous languages, but most can speak Spanish as well. The organization’s main services are literacy programs for families, adult education programs, and early childhood education programs for children who have English as a second language. They also offer a variety of social services referrals and translating specifically for Mayan immigrants. They have a Literacy Program funded by the Department of Education that was written in the Mayan indigenous language Canjobal.
Contact Information:
1615 Lake Ave.
P.O. Box 209
Lake Worth, Fl 33460-0209
General information: http://www.mayaministry.com
The World Health Organization (WHO) “World Oral Health Report 2003” emphasized that despite great improvements in the oral health status of populations across the world, problems persist. As knowledge is a major vehicle for improving the health of the poor in particular, the WHO Oral Health Programme focuses on stimulating oral health esearch in the developed and developing world to reduce risk factors and the burden of oral disease, and to improve oral health ystems and the effectiveness of community oral health programmes.
Describes the adverse health effects of lead in workers with blood-lead levels of 5-10 ug/dL and recommend changing OSHA’s medical removal trigger of 60 ug/dL.
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- Perspectives_Lead_Exposure_2.pdf (1.09 MB)
To provide initial prenatal education (prior to referral for pregnancy management) for patients with pregnancy diagnosed at the Lake Superior Community Health Center.
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To provide easily accessible immunizations, reduce patient waiting time, and assure quality of service in provision of immunizations.
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- Immunization.doc (32 KB)
A useful resource for health professionals interested in the health effects of exposure to specific chemicals and hazardous substances.
A training guide for Promotor(a) programs from Migrant Health Promotion.
The US Department of Health and Human Services has published the Community Health Status Indicators Report, which contains health indicator data on over 200 measures for every county in the United States.
This site is presented as a free medical Spanish immersion, with vocabulary including greetings, history, examination, and everyday speech, all with translation and audio. It is designed to be helpful for a variety of medical personnel. In addition to introducing Spanish medical terms, this site will hopefully improve fluency and even cultural competency.
Each dialogue consists of a few statements from the patient, the patient's family, and healthcare providers. Click to hear my voice and pronunciation. Then, repeat aloud everything you hear. When listening to Spanish medical phrases, feel free to use the pause button, and, of course, replay the recordings when needed.
This paper reviews the available research on HIV/AIDS in the farmworker community, supplemented with relevant findings from research with related populations, i.e., Latino, rural, migrant. The research reported in this paper focuses on behavioral, social and cultural, and structural risk factors that affect this community, as well as on ways that health care providers can help reduce HIV/AIDS risk within this highly vulnerable group.
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- HIVWhitePaper08.pdf (126.31 KB)
This 2008 MCN/FJ Monograph compiles research on pesticides, pregnancy and reproductive health. English and Spanish.
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- repproductive_eng_span_final.pdf (2.43 MB)
This planning tool helps hospitals predict the pattern of casualty severity, and their capacity to provide care after a mass casualty event.
This document answers commonly asked questions about the revised guidelines.
The first section of the document is tailored to each Collaborative Topic (diabetes, cancer, etc.) with suggestions for how CHWs can promote significant outcomes within a variety of measures. The second section includes a grid describing roles for CHWs in five of six components of the Chronic Care Model, aligned with already-established Change Concepts such as "Set and document self-management goals collaboratively with patients." For each Change Concept, a number of high-potential Change Ideas are presented.
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Useful Databases and links to find pesticide usage by crop, acreage or volume (weight).
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- Pesticide_usage_by_crop.doc (26.5 KB)
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- ISTC_report_FINAL_031306.pdf (1.9 MB)
This guide provides recommendations for offering vaccines to non high-risk recently arrived Mexican immigrants, by age, to bring them up to date with the US recommendations.
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- FINALMIGRANTGUIDE2007.pdf (424.72 KB)
Which papers have provided the most interesting recent advances in tuberculosis research? Which new discoveries in pathogenesis, epidemiology, drug discovery or vaccine development have been the most important or are likely to have the highest impact to the field?
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- nm0307-276.pdf (174.92 KB)
Appropriate information and training empower midwives and other health workers to provide the care needed to reduce dangers in childbirth. Developed with the participation of dozens of community-based midwives, midwifery trainers, and medical specialists, Hesperian's new edition of Un libro para parteras/A Book for Midwives has been reorganized and extensively revised to better support care during labor and management of obstetric emergencies, and expanded to include lifesaving reproductive health information.
Guidelines endorsed in May 2007 by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics.
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- MMG_FINAL.pdf (239.78 KB)
We would like to draw your attention to a new Self-Management Support resource. The Assessment of Primary Care Resources and Supports for Chronic Disease Self Management (PCRS) is a tool developed by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative to further define the elements of self management support in primary care. Its purpose is to facilitate quality improvement in this component of the chronic care model. Also available is a PowerPoint presentation that provides some background and information on how to use and score the PCRS Tool. Many thanks to Carol Brownson from the Diabetes Initiative(http://diabetesinitiative.org/) for sharing this great resource with the Health Disparities Collaboratives community!
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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- LakeApopkaReport.pdf (340.76 KB)
These recommendations represent the first statement by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on the use of a quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on June 8, 2006. This report summarizes the epidemiology of HPV and associated diseases, describes the licensed HPV vaccine, and provides recommendations for its use for vaccination among females aged 9-26 years in the United States. March 2007.
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- AcipHPV032007.pdf (493.76 KB)