Identification of barriers to the prevention and treatment of heat-related illness in Latino farmworkers using activity-oriented, participatory rural appraisal focus group methods

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lam, Michelle ^a   Krenz, Jennifer ^b   Palmández, Pablo ^b   Negrete, Maria ^b   Perla, Martha ^b   Murphy Robinson, Helen ^b   Spector, June T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers; Cultural beliefs; Farmworkers; Heat exhaustion; Heat stroke; Heat related illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGRICULTURE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEAT; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; EXTREME HEAT; FEMALE; FEVER; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEAT STRESS DISORDERS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; WASHINGTON; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885963878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1004     Document Type: Article

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