Reducing Farmworker Residential Pesticide Exposure: Evaluation of a Lay Health Advisor Intervention

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-455

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Marín, Antonio ^a   Snively, Beverly M ^a   Hernández Pelletier, Mercedes ^b   Quandt, Sara A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b North Carolina Farmworkers Project   (United States)

Author keywords

community based participatory research; farmworkers; lay health advisor; promotora; residential pesticide safety

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES; PESTICIDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SAFETY; VIRGINIA; VOLUNTARY WORKERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74049090935     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839907301409     Document Type: Article

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