Green tobacco sickness and skin integrity among migrant Latino farmworkers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 195-203

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Vallejos, Quirina M ^a   Schulz, Mark R ^b   Feldman, Steven R ^a   Fleischer Jr , Alan B ^a   Verma, Amit ^b   Quandt, Sara A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Farming; Farmworkers; Health disparities; Latino Hispanic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GREEN TOBACCO SICKNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RASH; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN PRURITUS; WOUND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NICOTINE; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN DISEASES; TOBACCO; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 39449130698     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20553     Document Type: Article

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