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In the Field: Health and Safety for Workers at Castañer General Hospital

Jul 25, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This May and June, the Castañer General Hospital team carried out orientations in the community and the surrounding regions to instruct workers on the risks of the chemical exposure that they…
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Five on Friday: Read Ahead

Jul 19, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This week’s Five on Friday uncovers a good handful of news stories that you may have missed. As always, our work looks at the news through the lens of migrant and immigrant health. Here are a few we’…
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In the Field: Outreach Workers Offer Chemical Safety in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Jul 17, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
In May and June, outreach workers from Polyclinic Castañer, a community health center in Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, took to the streets with the goal of training local workers on the various chemical…
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Five on Friday: Heat Wave

Jul 12, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
It’s hot. Record-breaking temperatures in pockets around the country remind us that summer is in full swing -- and it’s more intense than it used to be, thanks to climate change. As the Environmental…
Man stands in front of dairy production

New Research: Dairy Farm Owners Mobilized to Reduce Hazards

Jul 12, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Agricultural work continues to be one of the most dangerous professions in the country. Dairy, in particular, has relatively high injury and fatality rates. Exempted from most labor regulations and…
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Five on Friday

Jul 5, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
This week’s articles shared by those in the MCN offices continued to be dominated by news and views of the immigrant separation and detention crisis at the border. MCN recognizes that many immigrants…
Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center

Summer Streamline: Integrated Team-Based Approach to Hypertension at Virginia Garcia

Jul 5, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
photo courtesy of Viriginia Garcia Memorial Health CenterBy Claire Hutkins Seda, Writer, Migrant Clinicians Network, and Managing Editor, StreamlineFour years ago, the providers at Virginia Garcia…
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Five on Friday: Migrant Myths, ACEs, and the Effects of an Executive Order

Jun 29, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
July is rushing through the door, even though June seems to have just settled in. Where does the time go? If you can spare a few minutes, grab a chair and a cup of coffee and dive into these June…
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Five on Friday: Steps in the Right Direction

Jun 22, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Take care of yourselves! Amidst another very tough week in migrant health, we encourage our clinician constituents to take some time to relax, rejuvenate, reboot -- and rejoice in the small victories…
Family gathers water in forest

World Refugee Day: Lessons from Serving Asylum Seekers

Jun 20, 2018
By: Caitlin A. Fish J.D.
photo: Earl DotterTrauma-Informed Care: Lessons from Serving Asylum SeekersBy Kate Sugarman, MDA woman came to the exam room with irregular and heavy periods, during which she says she was passing…
Girl looks through border fence

Children at the Border: Layers of Trauma Compounded By Detention

Jun 19, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
photo by Karl Hoffman In the first six weeks of the Trump Administration’s new policy of separating children from parents who requested asylum after crossing the border as is within their legal…
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Five on Friday: Warming Up

Jun 15, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
The warmer days are here! Fields across America are swelling with the produce that make up our summer picnics and graduation barbeques. We’re looking forward to another relaxing June weekend as we…
Deliana Garcia speaking on UN End TB Panel

Eradicating Tuberculosis: Deliana Garcia at the United Nations

Jun 14, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“Eradicating tuberculosis can free a world potential so great as to reduce poverty, decrease childmortality, increase educational levels, productivity, and global wealth.”“Eradicating tuberculosis…
Kids on a farm

US Children Need Protection, Too: World Day Against Child Labor

Jun 12, 2018
By: Caitlin A. Fish J.D.
photo: Earl DotterToday is World Day Against Child Labor. Here in the US, we assume that children are protected from our most dangerous jobs, like mixing and applying pesticides. We scorn images of…
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Five on Friday: Weekend Reading

Jun 8, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Away we go into another weekend! What’s on your weekend reading list? Won’t you incorporate a few suggestions from Migrant Clinicians Network? Here are some pieces that we sent to each other this…
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Toxic: How To Battle Adverse Childhood Experiences Among Mobile Agricultural Workers

Jun 6, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Divorce, violence in the community, a family member incarcerated or deported, physical or sexual abuse, a lengthy and dangerous migration. For many people across the US, adverse experiences like…
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Clear on Cost: Conversations between Health Center Patients and Providers about Cost of Care

Jun 5, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
When Sarah* came to a rural health center for a six-month checkup after her pregnancy, she said she was comfortable working with the health center staff, from the front desk to her doctor. But she…
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Health Systems as Places of Sanctuary

Jun 4, 2018
By: Carmen Vélez Vega
By Seth Holmes (Associate Professor, UC Berkeley), Anita Berlin (Barts and the London St. Mary's School of Medicine), Fabian Fernandez (University of California San Francisco), Deliana Garcia (…
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Five on Friday: National Safety Month

Jun 1, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
June is National Safety Month. Mobile agricultural workers continue to be at greater risk of injury than almost any other job position in the US. We continue to fight for stronger and intact…
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Response from the Field: Dr. Jose Rodriguez on Hurricane Deaths in Puerto Rico

May 31, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine affirms what clinicians on the ground already knew: the official death toll from devastating Hurricane Maria is vastly underestimated.…
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Five on Friday: Memorial Day Weekend

May 25, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Memorial Day weekend is a time of contrasts. We spend time honoring those who have died fighting America’s wars over the past two and a half centuries, while enjoying the unofficial kick-off of…
Word map of Echo session feedback

One Word: Our Project ECHO on Diabetes & Hypertension Wraps up

May 24, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This week marks the conclusion of our five-month ECHO sessions on diabetes and hypertension. As part of the closing, we asked participants to choose one word to describe the experience, and a short…
Woman worries about the future

Undoing Racism: How Structural Racism Affects Health in Austin and Beyond

May 23, 2018
By: Migrant Clinicians Network
Two weeks ago, Donald Glover, under his music artist name Childish Gambino, released a haunting music video, “This is America.” As many have already pointed out, the video’s imagery is powerful…
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Five on Friday: Graduation Season!

May 18, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
As we glide into the graduation season, we’d like to send our congratulations to all of those who are completing their studies! Before you rush into another busy May weekend, take a moment to get…
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In the Field: Empowering Patients with Diabetes & Hypertension in Puerto Rico

May 17, 2018
By: Jenna Feinauer
Today is World Hypertension Day, during which we recognize the“silent killer” and its impact on people around the world and push for stronger programs for prevention and control of hypertension. Too…
Mother and child

Position Statement: Families Seeking Safe Haven Should Not Be Separated

May 14, 2018
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
As health care providers, we at Migrant Clinicians Network strongly oppose immigration policy that separates children from their parents. The lifelong health impacts of such trauma administered by…