Migrant Farm Workers: Hardworking & Medically Underserved

Judith L. Wold, director of the Farm Worker Family Health Program, describes the health problems faced by migrant workers like those who are served by the program, which since 1993 has provided health care or migrant farm workers and their families on site at farmers in south Georgia. Migrant workers and their children frequently lack medical and dental care and come to clinics with severe dental problems, malnutrition, foot problems, skin rashes, and other issues which require attention.

Related Video:

Farm Worker Family Health Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRlgL-f7doQ

About the Farm Worker Family Health Program

Each summer, Emory students and faculty in nursing and the physician assistant training program make a three-hour trek to Moultrie, Georgia, to provide care to migrant workers and their families. Additional students and faculty come in from other Atlanta and Georgia colleges and universities.

For two weeks, they work with community partners such as the Ellenton Clinic in Colquitt County to provide physical examinations and health screenings. They go where the farmworkers live and work, setting up shop in their fields and at apartment complexes and trailer parks. And they work night and day to serve this often invisible population, most of whom live in abject poverty.

Related Links

Article: "The Nursing Fields"
http://whsc.emory.edu/home/publications/nursing/emory-nursing/fall2008/nursin...

Slide Show: "The Nursing Fields"
http://whsc.emory.edu/home/multimedia/slideshows/nursing-fields.html

Feature: "Going the extra mile, close to home"
http://whsc.emory.edu/home/publications/health-sciences/community-benefits-20...

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C SPAN “Black Republican Forum” Session 2 (begin at 11:30) Allen West said one of the 1986 caveats was to secure our borders and enforcement our laws, but haven’t happened. (We’re still talking about new amnesty like DREAM Act.) We can’t allow local cities to make sanctuary cities policies, because they will bring our inner city turf wars to epic proportions by bringing in the drug cartel and Columbian gangs. (Mexican Gangs don’t recognize our borders established by the Treaty of Guadalupe)

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In November 2010, the unemployment rate was 9.8% with 15.1 million unemployed. (15.1 million/9.8%) = 154 million are able to work in the workforce. 11,941,812 (or 11.9 million) skilled jobs provided to illegal immigrants. GOOGLE “illegal immigration counters”, the 15.1 million unemployed could take the 11.9 million available jobs. The unemployment rate could be reduced to 2.1% {{15.1-11.9)/154}

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Allen West 2012