Society for Medical Anthropology

A section of the American Anthropological Association

Academic Resources: Topical Resources

  • Migrant Health

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organizations

  • Bureau of Primary Health Care Migrant Health Program
  • Farmworkers Health Services, Inc.
    Farmworker Health Services, Inc. (FHSI) is a national non-profit health care organization working with local communities to improve the quality of life of farmworker families.
  • Farmworker Justice Fund
    For twenty-five years, the Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. ("FJF") has been helping empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, labor and immigration policy, health and safety, and access to justice.
  • Milagros
    Milagros, Center of Excellence in Migrant Health (Milagros Center) will address 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
  • Migrant Clinicians Network
    The Mission of the Migrant Clinicians Network is to positively impact the physical, mental, and environmental health of Migrants and other mobile, underserved populations.
  • Migrant Health Promotion
    Migrant Health Promotion builds on community strengths to improve health in farmworker and border communities. Our programs provide peer health education, increase access to health resources and bring community members together with health providers, employers and policymakers to create positive changes. Community leaders, called Promotores and Promotoras, provide the inspiration, direction and vision necessary to build stronger, healthier communities — from within.
  • Migrant Health Services, Inc.
    Migrant Health Services, Inc. (MHSI) is a private non-profit corporation which provides access to health services to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families who travel to Minnesota and North Dakota to work in agriculture.
  • National Center for Farmworker Health
    The National Center for Farmworker Health (NCFH), established in 1975, is dedicated to improving the health status of farmworker families by providing information services and products to a network of more than 500 migrant health center service sites in the United States as well as other organizations and individuals serving the farmworker population.
  • The Washington State Migrant Education Health Program
    The Washington State Migrant Education Health Program provides health care services to migrant students because of our strong belief that healthy students are more likely to reach their fullest educational potential.

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