Outreach Services
Author: Castanares, Tina
Date Published: 2001
Community outreach programs have long been the linchpin in meeting these tremendous challenges to design and provide health care appropriate for the physical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics of MSFWs' lives. The federal Migrant Health Program defines community outreach as "community-based activities with migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their family members which improve both their utilization of health services and the effectiveness of those health services. Community Outreach acts to increase acts to increase the accessibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of available health services. Outreach is clearly the key to surmounting these and other frequent obstacles faced by MSFWs: Poverty and lack of insurance; distance from care and lack of transportation; lack of knowledge about available services; lack of understanding of health problems and risks; lack of understanding of the U.S. health care system; cultural and linguistic differences with providers of care; fear or mistrust of the health care establishment or governmental assistance.
Date Published: 2001
Community outreach programs have long been the linchpin in meeting these tremendous challenges to design and provide health care appropriate for the physical, cultural, and linguistic characteristics of MSFWs' lives. The federal Migrant Health Program defines community outreach as "community-based activities with migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their family members which improve both their utilization of health services and the effectiveness of those health services. Community Outreach acts to increase acts to increase the accessibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of available health services. Outreach is clearly the key to surmounting these and other frequent obstacles faced by MSFWs: Poverty and lack of insurance; distance from care and lack of transportation; lack of knowledge about available services; lack of understanding of health problems and risks; lack of understanding of the U.S. health care system; cultural and linguistic differences with providers of care; fear or mistrust of the health care establishment or governmental assistance.
