California farmworkers: Dilemmas in developing interventions for health and medical care concerns

Human Organization

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 369-378

  Harthorn, Barbara Herr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Chemical exposure; Farmworker health; Intervention studies; Mexican immigrants; Participatory research; Tuberculosis; US

Indexed keywords

EID: 12944325102     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.57.3.x33805242101g528     Document Type: Article

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