Occupational and environmental health risks in farm labor

Human Organization

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 331-334

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a,c   Quandt, Sara A ^a,b,d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural injury and illness; Farm health; Farmers; Farmworkers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001670859     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.57.3.m77667m3j2136178     Document Type: Article

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