The Pepin Comic Book series covers seven immunization topics: Td, Chickenpox, MMR, DTaP, Hep A, Hep B, and After the Shot. These low literate, popular education materials are available in English and Spanish to help clinicians educate parents about the importance of getting their children vaccinated.
The figures show that immigration trends are forming a unique generational divide: those immigrants over 40 are largely white, while those under 40 are increasingly Hispanic, Asian and from other minority groups.
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Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics- pew_hispanic_center.pdf (797.44 KB)
copy deeplink Workers Exposed to Pesticides Lack Protection, Fear Retaliation - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 3 of 3 Part Series)
Workers Exposed to Pesticides Lack Protection, Fear Retaliation - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 3 of 3 Part Series)Maria Fernandez, 42, of Cancun, Mexico, sits outside a shoddy trailer she shares with other workers. "Everybody around here always has headaches, coughs, running noses," she said. "It has to do with that dust on the plants from the chemicals. You are always breathing it in."
- florida_pesticide_3.pdf (12.75 KB)
- MMR_span125.pdf (4.55 MB)
- MMR_eng125.pdf (4.46 MB)
The Pepin Comic Book series covers seven immunization topics: Td, Chickenpox, MMR, DTaP, Hep A, Hep B, and After the Shot. These low literate, popular education materials are available in English and Spanish to help clinicians educate parents about the importance of getting their children vaccinated.
- DTaP_span125.pdf (3.57 MB)
- DTaP_eng125.pdf (3.52 MB)
- Si_necesita_condones.pdf (19.71 KB)
- Hep_MCN_Position_Paper.pdf (252.33 KB)
- Hep_MCN_Position_PaperUpdate.pdf (81 KB)
- HepQuick.pdf (126.17 KB)
- HepQuickUpdated08.pdf (52.34 KB)
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Hepatitis Patient Education Poster Spanish/English- hearingloss-hepPosterSpan.pdf (1.06 MB)
- hearingloss-hepPoster.pdf (1.06 MB)
copy deeplink Florida Pesticide Monitoring, Enforcement Draw Fire - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 1 of 3 Part Series)
Florida Pesticide Monitoring, Enforcement Draw Fire - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 1 of 3 Part Series)Since many exposures come during those field applications, the risks - to farmworkers and to nearby residents who can be affected if the chemicals drift - can occur much more frequently. "You are working in one field, and the tractor passes in the next field spraying," says Epifanio, 58, a veteran Mexican farmworker who asked that his full name not be used, out of fear for his job. "The wind brings it to you. It happens to somebody around here every single day."
- florida_pesticide_1.pdf (20.61 KB)
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Weak Enforcement Practices Protect Florida Growers - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 2 of 3 Part Series)Probe of ill workers cited to expose flaws, Farmworker advocates say the state mishandled a case in which 20 migrants were sickened.
- florida_pesticide_2.pdf (19.48 KB)