The California Agricultural Workers Health Survey

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-146

  Villarejo, Don ^a,b   McCurdy, Stephen A ^b  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Farm workers; Hispanic; Illness; Injury; Pesticides; Picking; Women

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INJURY; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAIN; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; CALIFORNIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAIN; PESTICIDES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

VITACEAE;

EID: 44949229330     PISSN: 10747583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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