A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: female farmworkers’ perceptions of heat related illness and pregnancy health, severe pesticide-related illnesses in toddlers, using focus groups to identify barriers to the prevention and treatment of heat-related illnesses, and beliefs of different groups of farmworker educators, in addition to a … Read more Eye on Farmworker Health: April 2014
A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: childhood obesity among children of farmworkers, heat illness knowledge in California, Latina mothers and outreach materials, and heat indices in migrant farmworker housing.
A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: migrant and seasonal cropworker injury in the Northeast, cooking and eating facilities in migrant farmworker housing in North Carolina, mobile clinic services, effectiveness of pesticide safety training, and health-related inequities among hired farmworkers.
A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: occupational safety informational exchanges among farmworkers, parental stress among lowcountry migrant workers, binational approach to quality-of-life improvement, US-Mexican collaboration on health insurance initiatives, farmworker housing quality, and medical Homes and receipt of preventative services in immigrant and nonimmigrant families.
A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: crop worker injuries, community health workers and eye injuries, pesticide health issues and female farmworkers in nurseries and ferneries, and housing violations in North Carolinian migrant worker camps.
A summary of research and policy on farmworker health issues. This issue focuses on: respiratory health, Latina farmworkers and the HPV vaccine, wages and pesticide safety violations, promotoras and the development of a cervical cancer curriculum, mental health and occupational safety, and child labor in agriculture.
FJ’s statement opposing the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA) that details its potential impact on farmworker access to health care and health insurance. BCRA was initially introduced in the Senate on June 22 and revised and re-introduced on July 13, 2017 (the bill never passed).