Cooking and eating facilities in migrant farmworker housing in North Carolina

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Summers, Phillip ^a   Bischoff, Werner E ^a   Chen, Haiying ^a   Wiggins, Melinda F ^b   Spears, Chaya R ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Student Action with Farmworkers   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; COOKING; EATING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MANPOWER; MIGRATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; COOKING; EATING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874031404     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300831     Document Type: Article

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