Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Lay Health Promoter-Led, Community-Based Participatory Pesticide Safety Intervention With Farmworker Families

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 425-432

  Quandt, Sara A ^a   Grzywacz, Joseph G ^a   Talton, Jennifer W ^a   Trejo, Grisel ^a   Tapia, Janeth ^b   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^a   Mirabelli, Maria C ^a   Arcury, Thomas A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b North Carolina Farmworkers Project   (United States)

Author keywords

community based participatory research; demonstration project; lay health promoter; migrant and seasonal farmworkers; occupational health and safety; pesticide exposure

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIGRATION; NEWBORN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; DEMONSTRATION PROJECT; LAY HEALTH PROMOTER; MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PESTICIDES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; DEMONSTRATION PROJECT; LAY HEALTH PROMOTER; MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKERS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; PESTICIDE EXPOSURE;

EID: 84876987038     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: 15526372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839912459652     Document Type: Article

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