Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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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.
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 ...
Old Disease, New Challenge: Tuberculosis in the 1990s
October 1, 1997 | Program Result Report
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.
TB Project Screens Migrant Workers in the Field and Tracks Them from State-to-State
March 6, 2007 | Program Result Report
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.
Opening Doors: A Program to Reduce Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care
December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
One of the most significant changes affecting health care in the United States is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population.