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Dragonfly
Fall 2002 -- Volume 33, Number 3 |
By Linda Milgrom, Outreach Coordinator
NN/LM PNR
Caregivers who work with migrant workers in Central Washington; Vietnamese-speaking breast cancer patients and their providers; and mental health workers in rural Oregon are among the new groups participating in outreach projects in the Northwest. The RML is pleased to announce three Outreach Project Awards given in response to last summer's RFP.
In the Central Washington REACH project Washington State University Health Sciences Library will work with the WSU College of Pharmacy, Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic, Yakima and Chelan County WorkSource offices, and local area hospitals. Given the complex health status of the migrant and seasonal worker community in the area, health care providers who practice in the clinics need to be especially well informed about the latest research and the specific health care problems common among the predominantly Hispanic population. Access to current, evidence-based research and accurate, linguistically and culturally appropriate patient health materials is also crucial to improving health. Central Washington REACH will develop a website and provide hands-on training, striving to create an information network responsive to locally-identified needs and building on established relationships in the community (Sarah McCord, PI).
The Oregon Pacific Area Health Education Center (AHEC) provides education and outreach programs to rural health care providers and communities in northwest Oregon. In this project the AHEC and its collaborators (Mid Valley Behavioral Care Network and Accountable Behavioral Health Alliance) will use Internet technology to enhance practitioner and parent knowledge of online educational resources for children-at-risk of mental health disorders. The project will be conducted in ten rural Oregon counties and will involve a needs assessment and subsequent training program targeting the Medicaid providers of children's mental health services and also a consumer outreach component using local media and health fairs to disseminate information (Karen Bondley, PI).
In its new Outreach Project the EthnoMed group at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, with a long history of successful partnerships in immigrant and refugee communities, will collaborate with the Patient Education Institute (PEI). PEI creates interactive tutorials on a variety of health topics in English and Spanish. They are available for public access on MEDLINEplus. In this project, staff of the EthnoMed group, Harborview clinicians, and Vietnamese community members will adapt and translate a PEI X-plain module about breast cancer. The process for translation and narration will include integrating focus group feedback, clinical review of content, and back translation to modify PEI's English text and existing graphics for an audience of Vietnamese patients at Harborview and other Vietnamese health consumers who access the internet. The product will be a prototype that can serve as an example for creating modules about health topics for immigrant patient populations (Christine Wilson Owens, PI).
Congratulations to all!
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Dragonfly, Fall 2002 - Volume 33, Number 3
(posted on PNRNews on January 6, 2003)
This publication is funded in whole with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. N01-LM-1-3516.
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