Diabetesg Migrant Farmworkers

[Guest guest]

Hi ...and others,

Several of my anthropology students and I just got back from Guanajuato

where we were working in the small ranchos that are sending communities

for the farmworkers around Pocatello, ID where we live. We did detailed

24 hour dietary recalls, ethnographic observations, interviews and random

blood sugars on a couple hundred adults and children. We've started the

analysis and will do a comparison up here in Idaho this fall with the

farmworkers in our region (both Hispanic and Anglo). From our initial

results, it looks like diabetes is a growing problem in Mexico as

well...We plan to be at the midwest stream team meetings in

December...perhaps folks who are interested in this subject could get

together then and we could get a good discussion going.

This is one of the health education issues that our binational health

promotoras will be working on during the coming Fall, so hopefully some of

these community members will be coming to the meetings as well.

Cheers,

Liz Cartwright

Medical Anthropologist

Idaho State University

Pocatello ID

(208) 282-2529

[Guest guest]

Liz - I'm anxious to learn of your findings. I work in deep S. TX in

diabetes research and we are looking at a subgroup of the population

that is primarily migrant workers. We also have Mexican citizens

(relatives) in our dm studies. Cheers - N MacNaughton (UTXHSC-Houston)

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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:45 AM

Subject: [ ] Diabetesg Migrant Farmworkers

Hi ...and others,

Several of my anthropology students and I just got back from Guanajuato

where we were working in the small ranchos that are sending communities

for the farmworkers around Pocatello, ID where we live. We did detailed

24 hour dietary recalls, ethnographic observations, interviews and

random

blood sugars on a couple hundred adults and children. We've started the

analysis and will do a comparison up here in Idaho this fall with the

farmworkers in our region (both Hispanic and Anglo). From our initial

results, it looks like diabetes is a growing problem in Mexico as

well...We plan to be at the midwest stream team meetings in

December...perhaps folks who are interested in this subject could get

together then and we could get a good discussion going.

This is one of the health education issues that our binational health

promotoras will be working on during the coming Fall, so hopefully some

of

these community members will be coming to the meetings as well.

Cheers,

Liz Cartwright

Medical Anthropologist

Idaho State University

Pocatello ID

(208) 282-2529

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