Promoting the occupational health of indigenous farmworkers

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-280

  Farquhar, Stephanie ^a   Samples, Julie ^b   Ventura, Santiago ^b   Davis, Shelley ^c   Abernathy, Michelle ^a   McCauley, Linda ^d   Cuilwik, Nancy ^a   Shadbeh, Nargess ^b  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Oregon Law Center   (United States)

^c Farmworker Justice   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural work; Community based participatory research; Discrimination; Indigenous farmworkers; Occupational health; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; COMMUNICATION; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OREGON; PREJUDICE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 40649095728     PISSN: 15571912     EISSN: 15571920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10903-007-9075-5     Document Type: Article

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