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Health Communication with Immigrants, Refugees, and Migrant Workers: Proceedings of a Workshop--in Brief
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... Presentations and panel discussions explored issues of access and services for these populations as well as outreach and action. ISSUES AND CHALLENGES The first panel featured Paul Geltman, medical director of ambulatory care for Franciscan Children's Hospital and medical director for refugee and immigrant health for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Jeffrey Caballero, executive director of the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations; and Henry Perea, former member of the Fresno, California, Board of Supervisors.
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... ACCESSING AND USING HEALTH CARE The second panel of the day featured presentations by Nick Nelson, director of the Highland Hospital Human Rights Clinic; Julia Liou with Asian Health Services; Jesús Quiñones, referral coordinator at Casa de Salud in St. Louis, Missouri; and Kari LaScala, a health communication specialist with Wisconsin Health Literacy.
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... hat most people are doing right now is developing clear policies about who is allowed where, what is a restricted area and what is not, and training staff in how to respond to legal, semi-legal, or, frankly, illegal incursions by immigration enforcement officials." HEALTH LITERACY CONSIDERATIONS FOR OUTREACH Panelists addressing outreach were Maricel Santos, associate professor of English at San Francisco State University; Justine Kozo, chief of the Office of Border Health for the San Diego Health and Human Services Agency; Rishi Sood, director of policy and immigrant initiatives for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; and Mimi Kiser, chair of Emory University's Religion and Health Collaborative Academic Working Group. Santos opened her presentation by saying she had two takeaway messages.
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... To address the health care needs of this population, the city decided to launch a direct-access health care program called Action Health NYC, a program modeled after programs in California and Harris County, Texas. This program has a formal enrollment mechanism tied to other city programs including IDNYC, New York City's municipal identification program.
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... WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Panelists for the moderated discussion included Anthony Iton, senior vice president for healthy communities of The California Endowment; Clifford Coleman, assistant professor of family medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University; Iyanrick John, senior policy strategist for the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum; and Hugo Morales, executive director and co-founder of Radio Bilingüe.
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... Morales said immigrants need to build their own institutions and a positive culture of health within their communities and we need to support traditional arts and immigrant native languages and multilingualism in schools. We also need to support authentic community media; build the capacity to address integration through local and regional collaboratives of service providers, immigrant advocates, and legal services; and build effective channels of input and feedback on those services, Morales said.
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... ; American Dental Association; Bristol-Myers Squibb; East Bay Community Foundation (Kaiser Permanente) ; Eli Lilly and Company; Health Literacy Missouri; Health Literacy Partners; Health Resources and Services Administration (HHSH25034011T)
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