Reporting pesticide assessment results to farmworker families: Development, implementation, and evaluation of a risk communication strategy

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 636-642

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Doran, Alicia M ^a   Rao, Pamela ^a   Hoppin, Jane A ^b   Snively, Beverly M ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Children; Community; Environmental justice; Exposure; Health communication; House dust; Latino a

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; COMMUNITY CARE; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FAMILY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISPANIC; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STANDARDIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

EID: 16544392544     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.6754     Document Type: Review

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