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Clinical Education: Environmental and Occupational Health
Adolescent Farmworkers at Risk
Professional education for healthcare providers on health risks for adolescent farmworkers.
Waterborne Illnesses
This CME/CE course by Sussan K. Sutphen, MD, MEd offers an excellent overview about water and sanitation disease.
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 )
AgriSafe Webinars
The AgriSafe Network Distance Learning Webinars aims to provide appropriate and timely training opportunities for Network members and affiliates. Through partnering with the National Rural Health Association and the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health, the Network has been able to offer a series of fantastic speakers using the web-based Elluminate program.
Bringing Healthcare Justice to the Front Line: Integrating Environmental Health into Nursing Practice and Education
An MCN/CDN webcast facilitated by Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM
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 )
Clinical Diagnostic Tools and Biomonitoring of Exposures to Pesticides
The importance of clinical diagnostic tools and biomonitoring of exposures to pesticides as well the role of clinicians in pesticide reporting and the challenges clinicians face in accurately diagnosing patients exposed to pesticides are described in a presentation by Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH and Amy K. Liebman, MPA. Click on the link for an APHA policy resolution underscoring the need for clinical diagnostic tools and biomomitoring of exposures to pesticides. This policy supports the information outlined by in the presentation.
Files
- Clinicians Biomonitoring Keifer Liebman 2010.pdf( 27,177.47 Kb )
Environmental/Occupational Health for the Primary Care Provider
Presented Mike Rowland, MD, MPH. Dr. Rowland is the Medical Director of Maine Migrant Health Program.
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.
