Proportionate mortality among US migrant and seasonal farmworkers in twenty-four states

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 604-611

  Colt, Joanne S ^a,c   Stallones, Lorann ^b   Cameron, Lorraine L ^a   Dosemeci, Mustafa ^b   Zahm, Shelia Hoar ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Cancer; Epidemiology; Farm worker; Migrant; Mortality; Occupation; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INJURY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MIGRANT WORKER; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

AGRICULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035159210     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.1126     Document Type: Article

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