Pesticides present in migrant farmworker housing in North Carolina

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 312-322

  Arcury, Thomas A ^a   Lu, Chensheng ^b   Chen, Haiying ^a   Quandt, Sara A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural workers; Environmental exposures; Health disparities; Immigrant workers; Occupational exposures; Vulnerable population

Indexed keywords

ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PESTICIDE; PYRETHROID;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOUSING; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT WORKERS; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURES; HEALTH DISPARITIES; IMMIGRANT WORKERS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOUSING; HUMANS; NORTH CAROLINA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANOPHOSPHATES; PESTICIDES; PYRETHRINS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 84893385908     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22232     Document Type: Article

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