From reports received from the projects. it is evident that growth In scope of service and geographic coverage are greatly needed. Local communities and States are willing and ready to assume part of the cost and the responsibility. They are beginning to find effective ways to relate the services of one project area to those in other areas where the same migrants are served. in order to provide increasing continuity of services for this population. To meet the continuing needs of the Nations migrants at a level more commensurate with their health problems requires continuation of the Migrant Health Act and substantially increased funds. The number of counties in which migrants have access to project services should be increased. with the expansion of geographic coverage concentrated on homebase and important "upstream" areas. More physicians and dentists should be employed for longer periods in existing and in new project areas. Casefinding and followup care as migrants move from one county to another should be strengthened by adding more nurses and aides for field visiting to identify and bring migrants under care. The utilization of aides as intermediaries between the migrants and the professional health worker should be continued and expanded. in order to provide the migrant with greater opportunity to learn to accept responsibility for appropriate health action on his own behalf. There is also need to extend services to other needy seasonal farmworkers and their families. who often live side by side with migrants. who share most oftheir handicaps except for mobility. and many of whom have migrated in the past and may again in the future. These seasonal farmworkers and their families form the core group in homebase areas from which the migrant population is drawn. There it is almost impossible to determine who is and who is not a migrant. The people themselves may decide to migrate one year and not the next. The projects now in operation have largely been developed by careful planning and utilization of all available resources.
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