Health risk behaviors and work injury among hispanic adolescents and farmworkers

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-136

  Vela Acosta, Martha Soledad ^a   Sanderson, Maureen ^a   Cooper, Sharon P ^b   Pérez, Adriana ^a   Roberts, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Farmworkers; Health risk behaviors; Hispanic; Injury; Migrants; Texas

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGRICULTURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK-TAKING; RURAL POPULATION; STUDENTS; TEXAS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 34249881337     PISSN: 10747583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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