Integrating epidemiology, education, and organizing for environmental justice: Community health effects of industrial hog operations

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1390-1397

  Wing, Steve ^a   Horton, Rachel Avery ^a   Muhammad, Naeema ^b   Grant, Gary R ^b   Tajik, Mansoureh ^d   Thu, Kendall ^c  

^a IL   (United States)

^b Concerned Citizens of Tillery ^*  (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION METHOD; EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; ORGANIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; PROFESSIONAL SECRECY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SWINE; TRAINING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PARTICULATE MATTER; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE;

EID: 48749099995     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.110486     Document Type: Review

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