Dear Colleagues: The HRSA Border Health Summit is open to HRSA grantees along the border and major border health partners. Attached are a draft agenda,...
Colleagues, For those of us who have had the priveledge of getting to know Surgeon General Richard Carmona, news of his resignation constitutes a significant ...
...  ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Martha C. Stiles, Program Director California AgrAbility Project Farm Safety & Rural Health University of...
Martha C. Stiles
mcstiles@...
Aug 3, 2006 9:53 pm
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Greetings, I recently moved from the Midwest and am in need of your help. Can anyone please send me some contacts of organizations doing promotora work with ...
Sheila Faye Lahousse
lahouss1@...
Aug 8, 2006 3:26 am
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Dear migrant health research colleagues, Call for Proposals Due October 6! Community-Campus Partnerships for Health 10th Anniversary Conference "Mobilizing...
Sheila, If I may encourage you to research pterygium, the eye diseases that is at epidemic levels in Hispanic men. It's a serious problem that preliminary...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 8, 2006 5:27 pm
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Dear Friends and Colleagues: I am currently working on an extensive binational document (Monograph) about the health and mental health status and health and...
Nelly Salgado
nsnyder@...
Aug 8, 2006 5:28 pm
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Hello Everyone, I recently received the following question and I am not sure what the answer is. I am hoping some of you might have an idea. Thanks for the ...
Yes, it would be considered a "work related injury" as defined by the Department of Labor. Sincerely, Rene Quintana Adelante Del Norte _____ From: Josh...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 8, 2006 7:17 pm
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Josh. As long as the Medical Provider shows in their notes that it was connected to their work environmental, it is an occupational disease. A similar...
Ed Hendrikson
ehendrikson@...
Aug 8, 2006 8:24 pm
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Dermatitis which results from the unique situation or conditions of the workplace, should be covered. So, I would definitely call it an occupational condition...
Matthew Keifer MD MPH
mkeifer@...
Aug 8, 2006 9:47 pm
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Rene, I am an occupational medicine physician in Washington. I recently supported and had accepted a worker compensation claim for a pterygium in a farm...
Matthew Keifer MD MPH
mkeifer@...
Aug 8, 2006 10:09 pm
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It is a work related injury. Rene Quintana ... From: Matthew Keifer MD MPH [mailto:mkeifer@...] Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 2:16 PM To:...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 8, 2006 10:22 pm
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Matthew, This is excellent, finally a break. I've been advocating education and prevention on this disease. It is widespread among Hispanic men to a ...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 8, 2006 10:23 pm
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Rene, What data have you collected?...
matt
mkeifer@...
Aug 9, 2006 2:48 am
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Hello Josh and all, We do not have poison ivy in California, we do have poison oak. Yes it is an occupational hazard (as are bee stings and snake bitess), and...
Marion
pec@...
Aug 9, 2006 2:49 am
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Matthew, 7 years worth of regional statistics on Hispanic men and pterygium. Its an epidemic. Sincerely, Rene Quintana Adelante, Del Norte California ... ...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 9, 2006 8:12 pm
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Hello Josh, We do not have poison ivy in California, we do have poison oak. Yes it is an occupational hazard (as are bee stings and snakes), and it is...
Marion
pec@...
Aug 9, 2006 8:33 pm
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Thank you very much for your information related to poison ivy and other occupational hazards. Hilda _____ From: migrant_health_research@yahoogroups.com ...
Aunque Cerca.Sano Comic Books are available at no cost (just shipping and handling charges). .Call Farm Safety for Just Kids at 1-800-423-5437 to place your...
Dear Dra. Salgado de Snyder: Please find below the PubMed citation to my literature review on the mental health of undocumented Mexican immigrants. Through my...
I don't know how common it is, but I've heard them called "arándanos". Virginia ________________________________ From: migrant_health_research@yahoogroups.com...
I worked several summers with Spanish-speakers picking blueberries, and the only term i heard was "la bluberi" <html><DIV> <DIV> ...
julie early
jtemprano@...
Aug 11, 2006 1:01 pm
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Blueberries is Spanish is "moras" Regards, ... Dra. V. Nelly Salgado de Snyder Directora de Determinantes y Retos del Sistema de Salud Centro de Investigacion...
Nelly Salgado
nsnyder@...
Aug 11, 2006 2:41 pm
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Dear Maggie: I strongly believe in networking, this is a good example. So far, I have received over 60 responses from colleagues in Mexico and the U.S. Thank...
Nelly Salgado
nsnyder@...
Aug 11, 2006 2:45 pm
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American Academy of Pediatrics Breastfeeding Promotion in Physicians’ Office Practices Program Phase III (BPPOP III) Teleconference “Breastfeeding Basics:...
Candace Kugel
ckugel@...
Aug 11, 2006 9:23 pm
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I forwarded the question to two of our bicultural staff. One endorsed "mora". The other provided a more extensive lexicon. According to him: mirtilo is a "...
Louise Mehler
lmehler@...
Aug 12, 2006 12:09 am
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Nelly, But someone called me that last week? What does this mean? Rene Quintana ... From: Nelly Salgado [mailto:nsnyder@...] Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006...
Rene J. Quintana
rquintana@...
Aug 12, 2006 12:11 am
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This is getting kind of funny. Una mora--that's also slang for a person. I perceive it as a dark skinned person, but that's not necessarily the case. Where...