Job Demands and Pesticide Exposure Among Immigrant Latino Farmworkers

Journal of Occupational Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 252-266

  Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Quandt, Sara A ^a   Vallejos, Quirina M ^a   Whalley, Lara E ^a   Chen, Haiying ^a   Isom, Scott ^a   Barr, Dana B ^b   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Demands Control model; Farm work; Job stress; Latinos; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

DIALKYLPHOSPHATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; JOB STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; URINALYSIS; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRANT; UNITED STATES; URINE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES;

EID: 77954745320     PISSN: 10768998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019303     Document Type: Article

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