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Stoecklin-Marois, Maria T, Hennessy-Burt, Tamara E., Schenker, Marc B,
Hired farm workers provide the majority of the workforce for California’s labor-intensive agricultural sector. Agriculture is one of the most hazardous occupations, but there has been little research ...
complete descriptionhttp://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/2dm8q9c9
Palerm, Juan Vicente,
Immigrant and migrant farm workers from Mexico and other countries are large and growing in number and in importance to U.S. agriculture, but they often are not counted in the decennial census due to ...
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Woolfolk, Marilyn, Hamard, Margot, Bagramian, Robert A., Sgan-Cohen, Harold,
A considerable number of Hispanic agricultural workers come to Northwest Michigan during the summer every year to harvest fruit and vegetable crops. The Department of Community Dentistry of The Univer...
complete descriptionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/65403
Parry, Jane, Lindsey, Rose, Taylor, Rebecca,
This research explores the ways in which stress affects farming communities, how this has changed in recent years, and the degree to which work-related aspects of stress may be assuaged by support int...
complete descriptionhttp://eprints.soton.ac.uk/207675/1/Farmers%2C_farm_workers_and_work%2Drelated_stress.pdf
Kerr, Madeleine J., Ritchey, Deborah A.,
This study was conducted with 62 Mexican-American migrant farm workers at four different sites in northern Illinois. An established English and a newly developed pilot Spanish version of the health-pr...
complete descriptionhttp://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/75750
World Bank,
The objectives of the study are to assess the impact of operational efforts in farmland restructuring and sustainable agricultural land management on vulnerability amongst rural households in Tajikist...
complete descriptionhttp://hdl.handle.net/10986/11897
Kuchkovsky, Michael Paul,
During the grape harvest that lasts for two months between late August to early November, over 3,000 migrant farm workers migrate to the Napa Valley. With less than a 1% vacancy rate in the area, they...
complete descriptionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1911/17440
Walker-Bone, K., Palmer, K.T.,
Farming is a physically arduous occupation and this places farm workers at potential risk of musculoskeletal disorders such as osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and knee, low back pain (LBP), neck and up...
complete descriptionMartha, Tibebu,
Background: Dairy farm workers (DFWs) are at the interface between the inter-transmission of human tuberculosis (TB) to cattle and zoonotic TB to humans. DFWs in and around Addis Ababa work in setting...
complete descriptionhttp://preveza.teiep.gr:8080/roes/handle/123456789/2568
Stanchi Nestor Oscar, Balague Laura Josefina,
Lyme Disease is a tick-borne (specially by Ixodes ticks) immune-mediated inflammatory disorder caused by a newly recognize spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Indirect fluorescent antibody (IF) staining...
complete descriptionhttp://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101993000400011