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4girls Health
Site promotes healthy, positive behaviors in girls between the ages of 10 and 16. The site gives girls reliable, useful information on the health issues they will face as they become young women, and tips on handling relationships with family and friends, at school and at home.
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 )
Agua Para Beber
A program manual developed at the Center for Environmental Resource Management at the University of Texas at El Paso to train health promoters to educate families in safe hygiene practices and water disinfection techniques in areas that lack running water and sewerage.
Files
- Safe Drinking.pdf( 3,322.81 Kb )
Aguas! Que hay microbios
A Spanish educational comic book that promotes safe hygiene and water disinfection techniques. Includes instructions on how to safely chlorinate and boil water as well as ways to safely store potable water.
Files
- Agua Que Hay Microbios.pdf( 11,733.84 Kb )
American College of Nurse Midwives—"Listen to Women" Buttons
Buttons available in English and Spanish.
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.pdf( 58,688.18 Kb )
- Pesticides Nearby But Healthy Eng 2007.pdf( 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 )
Between Women
Between Women: provides support services, promote awareness and advocates throughout the community. This organization is the only one in California's Imperial Valley devoted exclusively to breast health.
Breathing Easy at Home/Una Casa Libre de Problemas Respiratorios
Educational comic book about the sources of indoor pollution and ways to minimize exposure. Offers safe alternatives to clean homes. English and Spanish.
Files
- Breathing Easy Comic Eng.pdf( 24,759.12 Kb )
- Una Casa Libre De Problemas Respiratorias.pdf( 29,917.58 Kb )
Centers for Disease Control
The CDC's Spanish website for women's health. Includes handouts in Spanish that can be printed from the web.
