This fact sheet tells consumers what they can do to get safer health care.
copy deeplink Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care Services
Promoting Cultural and Linguistic Competency: Self-Assessment Checklist for Personnel Providing Primary Health Care ServicesThis checklist is intended to heighten the awareness and sensitivity of personnel to the importance of cultural and linguistic cultural competence in health, mental health and human service settings. It provides concrete examples of the kinds of beliefs, attitudes, values and practices which foster cultural and linguistic competence at the individual or practitioner level.
The topic of this resource is Liver Cancer and Hep B and C. We present two articles in full and three abstracts on the issues.
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copy deeplink National Assessment of the Pesticide Worker Safety Program
National Assessment of the Pesticide Worker Safety ProgramView reports from this EPA program that brought together a wide variety of program stakeholders who participated in a an assessment of the Worker Protection Standard and workgroups focusing on general training issues, a national pesticide safety train-the-trainer pilot, and a hazard communication pilot and issues with the pesticide applicator cetification regulation and training program.
A searchable directory of European and American foundations maintained by the European Foundation Centre.
Free electric wheelchairs available to those who qualify. Medicare and Medi-Cal accepted.
Chariots of Hope, a nonprofit organization, has been established for the purpose of collecting used wheelchairs. The donated wheelchairs are then repaired and distributed, at no cost to the recipient, to those in need.
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ACIP Provisional recommendations for prevention of VaricellaIn June 2005 and June 2006, the ACIP made policy changes for use of live, attenuated varicella containing vaccines for prevention of varicella.
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- VaricellaACIPProvRecom082006.pdf (90.63 KB)
Description: Relief For Life is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the disabled individuals by supplying wheelchairs and other ambulatory aides and devices to improve their lifestyle. Our mission of enabling disabled individuals to lead fuller lives is really all about empowering people so that they may live with a degree of satisfaction and dignity.
Medical supply company, that provides low cost or totally free diabetic supplies to diabetics who are eligible through Medicare or private insurance.
FJF/MCN comments to the US Environmental Protection Agency against using human subjects to test pesticides.
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Ethics in Research: Protecting Human SubjectsNational Farmworker Health Conference (May 22) - Presentation
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Pesticide Program: Illness Monitoring and Prevention