Workplace, household, and personal predictors of pesticide exposure for farmworkers

SA Quandt, MA Hernández-Valero… - Environmental …, 2006 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
In this article we identify factors potentially associated with pesticide exposure among
farmworkers, grade the evidence in the peer-reviewed literature for such associations, and …

COVID-19 pandemic among Latinx farmworker and nonfarmworker families in North Carolina: knowledge, risk perceptions, and preventive behaviors

SA Quandt, NJ LaMonto, DC Mora, JW Talton… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic poses substantial threats to Latinx farmworkers
and other immigrants in food production and processing. Classified as essential, such …

Pesticide safety among farmworkers: perceived risk and perceived control as factors reflecting environmental justice.

TA Arcury, SA Quandt, GB Russell - Environmental health …, 2002 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Farmworkers in the United States constitute a population at risk for serious environmental
and occupational illness and injury as well as health disparities typically associated with …

Hispanic adolescent farmworkers' perceptions associated with pesticide exposure1

MK Salazar, M Napolitano, JA Scherer… - Western journal of …, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
The migrant farmworker population in the United States is a vulnerable and understudied
population whose characteristics are constantly shifting. The number of youth involved in …

Knowledge attitude and practice of pesticide use among agricultural workers in Puducherry, South India

MK Mohanty, BK Behera, SK Jena, S Srikanth… - Journal of forensic and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Objectives To study the level of knowledge and practice related to pesticides and their
adverse effects among agricultural workers. Materials and methods A cross sectional study …

Pesticide risk perceptions and the differences between farmers and extensionists: Towards a knowledge-in-context model

A Ríos-González, K Jansen, HJ Sánchez-Pérez - Environmental research, 2013 - Elsevier
A growing body of literature analyzes farmer perceptions of pesticide risk, but much less
attention has been given to differences in risk perception between farmers and technical …

Using sex pheromone traps in the decision-making process for pesticide application against fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda [Smith] [Lepidoptera: Noctuidae]) …

I Cruz, MLC Figueiredo, RB Silva, IF Silva… - … Journal of Pest …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Smith)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is a major pest
of maize and frequently demands control measures. The timing of insecticide application is a …

Work safety climate, musculoskeletal discomfort, working while injured, and depression among migrant farmworkers in North Carolina

TA Arcury, H O'Hara, JG Grzywacz… - … journal of public …, 2012 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. This analysis described Latino migrant farmworkers' work safety climate and its
association with musculoskeletal discomfort, working while injured or ill, and depressive …

[PDF][PDF] Saúde e ambiente em sua relação com o consumo de agrotóxicos em um pólo agrícola do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

F Peres, JC Moreira - Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2007 - SciELO Public Health
O uso de agrotóxicos na lavoura é uma realidade nacional, assim como é do tamanho de
nosso país a dimensão dos problemas relacionados a este uso. Sua ampla e crescente …

“Where they (live, work and) spray”: Pesticide exposure, childhood asthma and environmental justice among Mexican-American farmworkers

NA Schwartz, CA Von Glascoe, V Torres, L Ramos… - Health & place, 2015 - Elsevier
Asthma prevalence is reportedly low for children of Mexican descent compared with other
ethnic groups and Latino subgroups. The results of our exploratory ethnographic research …