Obesity Among Latino Children Within a Migrant Farmworker Community
March 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Latino children of migrant farm workers are at high risk for obesity but many parents are not concerned about their overweight children.
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Access to Health Care for Migrants Returning to Mexico
May 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The rapidly aging Mexican-born population in the United States presents challenges for policy-makers in both this country and Mexico. Using a nationally representative data set of elderly Mexicans (sample size 3,007), the authors of this article exp ...
Emma Torres
February 28, 2002 | Story
Whatever I learn from those experiences, I pass on to the people around me, so they don't have to go through what I went through in order to learn that they have the abilities to solve problems.
Alvin Jackson, MD
June 1, 2006 | Story
Jackson soon developed a reputation as a physician who treated everyone equally, regardless of social standing, status or ability to pay.
Youth Voices in Action: Conversations from America's Fields
April 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Next week, young farm-workers from across the country will share their stories with officials and advocates in Washington, D.C., to discuss the challenges they face working in the fields from a very young age. The youth-led and youth-organized confe ...
Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care
January 29, 2002 | Program Result
Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.
TB Project Screens Migrant Workers in the Field and Tracks Them from State-to-State
March 1, 2007 | Program Result
The State of Florida established a system for tuberculosis testing, assessment and treatment services for its migrant farmworker population in Northeast Florida and attempted to set up the model in South Florida.
Old Disease, New Challenge: Tuberculosis in the 1990s
October 1, 1997 | Program Result
Old Disease, New Challenge: Tuberculosis in the 1990s was a national program of RWJF to develop and evaluate innovative ways of augmenting and assisting public health systems in providing comprehensive tuberculosis (TB) activities.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities Grantee Featured on NPR's Morning Edition
July 10, 2009 | Story
The Central California Regional Obesity Prevention Program (CCROPP) is working to reduce and prevent childhood obesity in California's Central Valley.
Opening Doors: A Program to Reduce Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care
December 1, 1998 | Program Result
One of the most significant changes affecting health care in the United States is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population.