Telehealth

Issue Brief: The Impact of Language on Health Care Accessibility (June 2022)

This FJ issue brief informs service providers about policies and promising practices to promote language access for LEP patients.

The Unidos Initiative: Mobilizing to Eliminate Barriers to Health and Healthcare in Farmworker Communities

A final evaluation report on the three years of work completed during the Unidos project. This project focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating skin cancer in farmworker communities through community mobilization.

Issue Brief: Barriers Encountered by Agricultural Workers Seeking Specialty Care and Potential Solutions

An issue brief for health centers and clinicians outlining the continuing challenges in providing specialty care to agricultural workers and their families. The brief discusses lessons learned from FJ's Unidos project. The brief then explores opportunities for telehealth, based on a related effort with Harvard’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI) that involved workers directly in … Read more Issue Brief: Barriers Encountered by Agricultural Workers Seeking Specialty Care and Potential Solutions

The Promise of Telehealth: Increasing Access to Quality Healthcare in Rural America

Written in collaboration with Harvard's Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, this paper discusses the current state of telehealth in the United States, opportunities that telehealth provides for improving access to health care for rural residents, and the unique position that promotores de salud or community health workers occupy as potential facilitators of telehealth technologies in rural farmworker communities.