Pesticide risk perception and biomarkers of exposure in Florida female farmworkers

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1286-1292

  Runkle, Jennifer D ^a   Tovar Aguilar, J Antonio ^b   Economos, Eugenia ^b   Flocks, Joan ^c   Williams, Bryan ^a   Muniz, Juan F ^d   Semple, Marie ^a   McCauley, Linda ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Farmworker Association of Florida   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 IMIDAZOLIDINETHIONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FUNGICIDE; MANCOZEB; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; ORGANOPHOSPHATE PESTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH BELIEF; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYGIENE; METABOLITE; PERCEPTION; RISK; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; WORK; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHYLENETHIOUREA; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FUNGICIDES, INDUSTRIAL; HAITI; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INSECTICIDES; MANEB; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PERCEPTION; WORKPLACE; ZINEB;

EID: 84888133118     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182973396     Document Type: Article

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