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Clinical Education: Children and Teen Health
Adolescent Farmworkers at Risk
Professional education for healthcare providers on health risks for adolescent farmworkers.
Farmworkers, Pregnancy and Pesticides
Palm Beach Post’s page Farmworkers and Pesticides. Excellent artilces on Florida's farmworkers, with special attention to pregnant farmworkers and birth defects.
Lamaze Publishing Company
Free video called “Lo Mejor Para Su Bebe”, which covers infant care and breastfeeding.
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.
The Perinatal/HIV Hotline
HRSA/HAB has developed a new 24-hour clinical consultation service, the National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal Hotline). This service provides 24-hour advice from HIV experts on indications and interpretations of HIV testing in pregnancy as well as consultation on treating HIV-infected pregnant women and their infants. The Perinatal Hotline (888-448-8765) and the PEPline (888-448-4911) are both available 24 hours, seven days per week. The Warmline (800-933-3413) is available 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday.
Age Considerations: Impacts on Pesticide Exposure and Health Outcomes
Presentation developed by the Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, University of Washington.
Files
- Age Considerations Pesticides 2009.ppt( 4,485.12 Kb )
CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
CDC Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program - offers screening, research and surveillance information.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention
California Department of Public Health offers numerous bilingual educational materials regarding childhood lead poisoning prevention.
Children's Health Fund
Founded by singer/songwriter Paul Simon and pediatrician/child advocate Irwin Redlener, MD in 1987, The Children's Health Fund (CHF) works nationally to develop health care programs for the nation's most medically underserved population - homeless and disadvantaged children. CHF brings medical care and essential services directly to underserved children in rural and urban communities via Mobile Medical clinics (doctor's offices on wheels) and fixed site clinics.
Grasshoppers, Dust and Salsa - An Old Toxin in a New Setting: A Fresh Look at Lead Poisoning in Migrant Populations
This hour long webcast features Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH – a former medical director of a migrant and community health center and a pediatrician with over 20 years of practice serving farmworker and immigrant populations.
