Educating Migrant Women at Risk of Cervical and Breast Cancer
Author: UC Agricultural Health & Safety Center News
Date Published: 1998
This article is on the medical anthropologist Faith Boucher. For more than 20 years, Faith Boucher has been working to educate and improve the lives of agricultural workers and their families. Boucher is currently involved in a two-year study that began in September (1998) to determine the knowledge of and utilization of preventive health care services for cervical and breast cancer in migrant and seasonal farmworker women. To begin to address the barriers and lack of knowledge of preventive behaviors and services, the project will train lay health advisors (consejeras) to conduct education in the migrnat camps.
Date Published: 1998
This article is on the medical anthropologist Faith Boucher. For more than 20 years, Faith Boucher has been working to educate and improve the lives of agricultural workers and their families. Boucher is currently involved in a two-year study that began in September (1998) to determine the knowledge of and utilization of preventive health care services for cervical and breast cancer in migrant and seasonal farmworker women. To begin to address the barriers and lack of knowledge of preventive behaviors and services, the project will train lay health advisors (consejeras) to conduct education in the migrnat camps.
