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Migrant health
(Salud del migrante)

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Tools
(Herramientas)

  • United States - Mexico Border Virtual Health Library
    Provides a database of publications and other information sources related to the U.S. - Mexico border region.
    Sponsoring organization: Pan American Health Organization
  • Listing of Migrant-Serving Non-Profit Organizations in San Diego County
    Provides a list of non-profit organizations serving migrants in San Diego County.
    Sponsoring organization: International Community Foundation
  • Find a Health Center
    Allows users to search for health centers, including Federally Qualified Health Centers and other Bureau of Primary Health Care service delivery sites, by location. These health centers provide free and low-cost health services such as: primary medical, obstetrical and gynecological, dental, mental health and substance abuse care.
    Sponsoring organization: Bureau of Primary Health Care
  • Think Cultural Health
    Works to improve the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of effective health policies and programs that help to eliminate disparities in health. Develops and tests curriculum modules that effectively equip family physicians with cultural and linguistic competencies.
    Sponsoring organization: HHS Office of Minority Health
  • Organizing to Address Minority Health Disparities: A Directory of State and Local Initiatives
    A detailed 90-page compilation of over 300 groups working to address the causes and solutions to the health disparities crisis.
    Sponsoring organization: Poverty & Race Research Action Council
  • EthnoMed
    Provides information about cultural beliefs, medical and other related issues pertinent to the health care of recent immigrants to the United States. Includes these culture-specific pages: Amharic, Cambodian, Chinese, Eritrean, Ethiopian, Hispanic, Hmong, Oromo, Somali, Tigrean, & Vietnamese and covers a wide variety of health topics. Some information is available in languages other than English.
    Sponsoring organization: University of Washington
  • Office of Minority Health Resource Center
    A resource center that provides publications, articles, statistics, data, funding sources as well as database searches on minority health topics. Can be contacted by phone at 1.800.444.6472, or by e-mail at info@omhrc.gov.
    Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Su Familia National Hispanic Family Health Helpline
    Provides Hispanic consumers free reliable and confidential health information in Spanish and English and helps navigate callers through the health system. Nationwide resources and local referral services are provided depending on the need of the caller.
    Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
  • National Hispanic Prenatal Helpline (NHPH)
    Refers Hispanic consumers to a culturally and linguistically proficient prenatal care provider in their community.
    Sponsoring organization: National Alliance for Hispanic Health
  • HRSA Information Center
    Provides publications, information, resources, and referrals about health care services for medically underserved individuals and populations.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
  • HRSA: Rural Health
    Provides rural health resources that include grant information, technical assistance, and research publications.
    Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration

Funding
(Financiamiento)

Publications
(Publicaciones)

Organizations
(Organismos)

  • Asociacion Nacional Latino de Adiccion y Salud Mental
    Una organización que lucha por las necesidades de salud mental y abuso de sustancias de la comunidad Latino.
  • Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
    A nonprofit, transdisciplinary organization of clinicians, advocates, and health care organizations working to improve the health of America's underserved populations and to enhance the development and support of the medical and dental clinicians serving these populations.
  • California Endowment Agricultural Worker Health Initiative
    Works to achieve optimal health for agricultural workers, their families and their communities.
  • CDC's Office of Minority Health & Health Disparities
    Aims to accelerate CDC’s health impact in the U.S population and to eliminate health disparities for vulnerable populations as defined by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, geography, gender, age, disability status, risk status related to sex and gender, and among other populations identified to be at-risk for health disparities.
  • HHS Office of Minority Health
    Serves to improve and protect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that will eliminate health disparities. Part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
  • Humane Borders
    An organization that offers humanitarian assistance to those in need through more than 70 emergency water stations on and near the U.S.- Mexican border.
  • Institute for Hispanic Health
    Dedicated to reducing the incidence, burden, and impact of health problems in Hispanic Americans. The Institute works in close partnership with NCLR affiliates, government partners, private funders, and other Hispanic-serving organizations to deliver quality health interventions that focus on the improvement of access to and utilization of health promotion and disease prevention programs.
  • Migrant Clinicians Network
    A network of clinicians across the country who work to eliminate health disparities among migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other vulnerable mobile populations.
  • Milagros, Center of Excellence in Migrant Health (Milagros Center)
    Addresses health disparities in the U.S. Hispanic migrant population. Milagros Center will educate future and current service providers including nurses, early childhood specialists, paraprofessionals, and child advocates who deliver services to farm workers and their families both at their home-base in Texas and in multiple locations during their migration.
  • National Advisory Council on Migrant Health
    The Council is legislatively mandated to advise, consult with, and make recommendations to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, on the health and well being of migrant farmworkers and their families. Fifteen members are appointed by the Secretary to serve four-year terms.
  • National Alliance for Hispanic Health
    Mission is to improve the health and well being of Hispanics. The Alliance informs consumers, supports health and human service providers in the delivery of quality care, improves the science base for accurate decision making by promoting better and more inclusive research, promotes appropriate use of technology, insures accountability, advocates on behalf of Hispanics, and promotes philanthropy. Information in English and Spanish.
  • National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities
    The mission is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the NIH effort to reduce and eliminate health disparities. NCMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities.
  • National Healthy Start Association
    Promotes the development of community-based maternal and child health programs, particularly those addressing the issues of infant mortality, low birthweight and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes.
  • Oficina de Salud para las Minorías
  • Salud En Acción: National Hispanic/Latino Health Communication Research
    Provides extensive expertise in the fields of public health promotion, health research, health communication and community networking with regard to working with the Hispanic/Latino communities.
  • Southwest Rural Health Research Center
    Conducts and disseminates policy-relevant research on critical rural health issues, with a focus on: meeting and understanding the needs of rural underserved and special populations; eliminate or reduce health disparities; and maintain and build rural health systems.
  • Texas Association of Community Health Centers
    A private, non-profit membership association that represents safety-net health care providers in the state of Texas.