Housing quality among North Carolina farmworker families

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 323-337

  Gentry, Amanda L ^a   Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Quandt, Sara A ^a   Davis, Stephen W ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental health; Farmworkers; Health disparities; Housing quality; Latinos; Minority health; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 34547982766     PISSN: 10747583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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