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Resources by Topic: Migrants

HIV/AIDS in Rural America: Disproportionate Impact on Minority and Multicultural Populations
Overview of the impact of AIDS and HIV in rural areas. Summarizes the epidemiology of AIDS/HIV, including its impact on rural minority groups. Discusses the challenges rural areas face in preventing and treating AIDS. Includes policy recommendations.
Date: 04/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Rural Health Association
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Outreach Across Populations: 2013 National Needs Assessment of Health Outreach Programs
Provides national data concentrated on farmworker communities served by health outreach programs at community health centers with migrant health funding.
Date: 01/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Health Outreach Partners
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Encouraging Healthy Weight Among Kansas Farmworkers
Describes the development and implementation of a bilingual nutrition education workshop for farmworkers focused on healthy eating and maintaining a healthy weight.
Author(s): Kendra Baldridge, Pat Fernandez
Citation: Migrant Health Newsline
Date: 01/2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Farmworker Health
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Migrant Health Newsline: Commemorative Issue
Final and commemorative issue examining the migrant health movement in the U.S. Includes reprints of past articles about the history of migrant health, the creation of the Migrant Health Program, the Migrant Health Act, and other legislation increasing access to healthcare for migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
Date: 2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Farmworker Health
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A Profile of Migrant Health: An Analysis of the Uniform Data System, 2010
Analyzes the demographic, socioeconomic, and health characteristics of patients from 142 community and migrant health centers that receive funding through the U.S. Public Health Service Act, Section 330.
Author(s): Bethany C. Boggess, Hilda Ochoa Bogue
Date: 2014
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: National Center for Farmworker Health
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Unfinished Harvest: The Agricultural Worker Protection Act at 30
Discusses the impacts of the 1983 Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA) on farmworkers' health, safety, housing, and more. Examines the law's historical and legislative background, interpreting court case provisions, and includes insights from leading farmworker advocates around the country.
Author(s): Megan Horn, Nicholas Marritz
Date: 12/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc.
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Oregon Indigenous Farmworkers: Results of Promotor Intervention on Pesticide Knowledge and Organophosphate Metabolite Levels
Highlights a study on changes in health knowledge relating to pesticides of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon. Details the results of participants' pesticide knowledge from pre/post-intervention questionnaires and biological testing.
Author(s): Linda McCauley, Jennifer D. Runkle, Julie Samples, et al.
Citation: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 55(10), 1164-1170
Date: 10/2013
Type: Document
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Identification of Barriers to the Prevention and Treatment of Heat-Related Illness in Latino Farmworkers Using Activity-Oriented, Participatory Rural Appraisal Focus Group Methods
Examines the barriers to prevent and provide treatment for heat-related illness (HRI) for Latino farmworkers in Central Washington State. Research was conducted through interviews, and by examining transcripts, field notes and investigator triangulation.
Author(s): Michelle Lam, Jennifer Krenz, Pablo Palmández, et al.
Citation: BMC Public Health, 3,1004
Date: 10/2013
Type: Document
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Housing Conditions for Rural Farmworkers
Analyzes the status of farmworkers in the U.S. in 2013 and discusses housing conditions. Includes social and economic characteristics as well as information on housing quality.
Date: 09/2013
Type: Document
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
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Stress, Depression, and Coping among Latino Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers
Presents the findings of three focus groups and a quantitative survey of farmworkers in North Carolina. Working conditions were found to be related to both physical and mental stress, as well as lack of resources, family issues, and documentation status.
Author(s): Sloane Burke Winkelman, Elizabeth H. Chaney, Jeffrey W. Bethel
Citation: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10(5), 1815-1830
Date: 05/2013
Type: Document
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