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Five on Friday | March 31, 2017

Mar 31, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
April is upon us, and agricultural communities across the country are waking out of the slumber of winter and preparing for the spring planting. Out here in California, plenty of spring harvesting is…
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Top 4 Reasons To Drop Everything and Read the New Issue of Streamline Now

Mar 30, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Streamline is here! And we’re convinced that you should share our slightly-over-the-top exuberance on the publication of the latest issue of our quarterly clinical publication. That’s because this…
Laszlo Madaras at the Pennsylvania Conference on Tick-Borne Diseases

In the Field: Pennsylvania Conference on Tick-Borne Diseases

Mar 29, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last week, Laszlo Madaras, MD, MPH, SFHM, Co-Chief Medical Officer at MCN facilitated a two-day conference on tick-borne disease at his home health center Summit Health in Pennsylvania. The…
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Top 4 Reasons the WHO Got it Wrong on TB

Mar 24, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Two weeks before today’s World TB Day, the World Health Organization announced its first-ever list of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant superbugs on the planet that pose the greatest…
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Five on Friday | March 24, 2017

Mar 24, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
What’s cheap and easy to cure, but will kill a person by the time you finish reading this page? Tuberculosis.Today we commemorate World TB Day. This week, as for the last two weeks, MCN’s Ed…
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MCN’s Top Five Pesticide Resources for National Poison Prevention Week

Mar 23, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
It’s National Poison Prevention Week. Agricultural workers are at a heightened risk for poisonings from pesticides -- and clinicians need the tools to be able to best recognize and manage a poisoning…
In the Field: Interactive Safety in the Workplace Trainings in Rural Oregon & Washington

In the Field: Interactive Safety in the Workplace Trainings in Rural Oregon & Washington

Mar 22, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Last week, MCN’s Alma R. Galván, MHC and Ileana Ponce-Gonzalez, MD, MPCH, CNC met up in some of the most agriculturally productive regions in the country for back-to-back occupational health and…
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Top 5 Reasons I ❤️️ MCN

Mar 21, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
We at Migrant Clinicians Network continue to push ahead for health justice for the mobile poor -- and the numbers show that our work is effective. This week, we’ve released our 2016 Year In Review,…
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Five on Friday | March 17, 2017

Mar 17, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Is it winter or is it spring? If you’re on the East Coast, you’re likely to look out the window at feet of snow. It might be challenging to imagine those in the Southwest donning tank tops and shorts…
Amy K. Liebman and Jimmy Roberts, MD, MPH at West Kauai Medical Center

In the Field: Frontline Clinicians Recognizing and Managing Pesticide Poisonings in Hawaii

Mar 14, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
In January 2016, 19 agricultural workers on the Hawaiian island of Kauai re-entered a crop research field owned by seed giant Syngenta Seeds. The field had been recently sprayed with chlorpyrifos…
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Five on Friday | March 10, 2017

Mar 10, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
What’s on tap for your weekend? Little League, opera tickets, tax prep, hiking, dinner parties, dog walking, house repair? Snow shoveling, boogie boarding, or couch potatoing? No matter how different…
Stephanie Chalupka, EdD, RN

In The Field: Nursing, Health and the Environment for Nursing Students

Mar 7, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Environmental and occupational health (EOH) hazards are ubiquitous and poorly understood. Those who work in high risk jobs and live in impoverished neighborhoods or substandard housing -- like…
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Five on Friday | March 3, 2017

Mar 3, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Phew, finally got to Friday. Before we head out for the weekend, we wanted to share a few pieces that got us talking here at MCN.Both Ricardo, Manager of Health Network, and Del, Director of…
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In The Field: Deliana Garcia on Equitable Care for Immigrants Suffering From TB

Mar 1, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
To effectively mobilize many tuberculosis patients, we must take into account the environment that may hinder their ability to step forward and self-advocate. That was one of the messages from MCN’s…
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In The Field: Health Network at the Western Forum

Feb 27, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
“ go out to the field, they get the patients into the clinic -- but if they lose the patient when the patient needs to move?” MCN’s Ricardo Garay, Health Network Manager, questioned the audience, but…
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Five on Friday | February 24, 2017

Feb 24, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
We’re hard at work in the world of health justice for the mobile poor…. But we try to spend a few moments to share articles between ourselves. Here are just a few of the pieces that crossed our desks…
keeping safe on the horse farm

Seguridad: How to Stay Safe on the Dairy Farm

Feb 23, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Imagine you just got a new job. Congratulations! You now work on a dairy farm with hundreds, possibly several thousand 1,500-pound Holstein cows -- but you have never worked with large animals before…
keeping safe on the horse farm

New MCN Poll: What Are Your Patients Experiencing, and What Do You Need?

Feb 22, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Clinicians throughout the US have been contacting us to express concerns about some of their immigrant patients who are reporting new fears and struggles and a consequential reluctance to access…
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Five on Friday | February 17, 2017

Feb 17, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Friday is once again tugging on our brains, luring us into the weekend before 5pm… What are your plans this weekend? Care to add a little bit of health reading into the mix?Jessica, Grant Writer,…
keeping safe on the horse farm

Keeping Safe on the Horse Farm: Resources for Immigrant Workers

Feb 14, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
How can we best keep immigrant workers safe on the job? Our Seguridad and Communicating Safety projects resulted in popular low-literacy and bilingual safety materials in comic book form, to help…
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Five on Friday | February 10, 2017

Feb 10, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Anniversary, Five on Friday! For the last two years, we have opened up our inboxes to share with you the many useful new resources, pertinent news items, and entertaining podcasts that relate…
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New Seguridad Video Highlights Curriculum’s Success on Dairy Farms

Feb 9, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Immigrants make up a majority of the workers on US dairy farms. Every day, they toil in one of the most dangerous industries in the country. They work with hundreds of animals weighing 1,500 pounds…
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Five on Friday | February 3, 2017

Feb 3, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
Happy Friday! This week, our offices were humming with recommended resources and articles. Here are a few, offered up by MCN staff members. Alma, Senior Program Manager of Environmental and…
MCN Statement on Health Justice

MCN’s Statement on Health Justice

Feb 1, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
MCN stands firmly for health justice for the mobile poor. For over 30 years, we have voiced loudly and consistently the clinician’s perspective on the health needs of vulnerable populations -- and we…
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Five on Friday | January 27, 2017

Jan 27, 2017
By: Claire Hutkins Seda
This was a very busy week in the world for health justice for the mobile poor. We will be releasing a statement early next week. Many of the articles and resources we shared this week had to do with…
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A Misused Pesticide Killed Four Children. Could This Have Been Prevented?

Jan 25, 2017
By: Alma Galván
By Alma Galván, MHC, Senior Program Manager of Environmental and Occupational HealthOver the weekend, at funeral services in Amarillo, Texas, the community mourned the death of four siblings who died…