Week 3 Thoughts

I appreciated the article "Delivery of Health Services" because I feel that it gave a more in-depth analysis of what farmworkers experience. This article seemed to further discuss the issues of barriers and health concerns of farmworkers as we read the week before. What was different, though, was that this paper included a more detailed discussion of what current programs are doing to overcome the issues that farmworkers face. It was interesting to read about all the health services programs like Farmworker Justice Inc. that were actually taking action to help farmworkers. This article also brought up an interesting point about how there was not much data that was directly addressing the concerns of farmworkers and how there was little information about how effective these programs are. I feel, though, that as long as these programs are doing something to help is better than no help at all. I really enjoyed reading the NY Times article. The cultural barrier is a big issue keeping patients from receiving medical attention and it was very interesting to see the hospital incorporating multiple ways of healing to overcome the cultural barriers the patients faced. This shows that there are ways of helping to overcome the barriers farmworkers face and it was comforting to read about programs and hospitals who are actually doing it.