Lifetime and Current Pesticide Exposure Among Latino Farmworkers in Comparison to Other Latino Immigrants

Overview

Journal Am J Ind Med

Specialty Occupational Medicine

Date 2014 Apr 17

PMID 24737498

Citations 26

Authors

Thomas A Arcury

Ha T Nguyen

Phillip Summers

Jennifer W Talton

Lourdes Carrillo Holbrook

Francis O Walker

Haiying Chen

Timothy D Howard

Leonardo Galvan

Sara A Quandt

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Abstract

Background: Pesticide exposure poses a health risk for farmworkers. This analysis documents lifetime and current pesticide exposure of North Carolina Latino migrant farmworkers, with comparison to non-farmworker Latino immigrants.

Methods: During May to October 2012, 235 Latino farmworkers and 212 Latino non-farmworkers completed interviews with items to construct measures of lifetime, current residential and occupational pesticide exposure.

Results: Farmworkers experience levels of lifetime and residential pesticide exposure that are consistently greater than among non-farmworkers. Farmworkers report a large number of occupational pesticide exposures. Lifetime exposure and current residential pesticide exposure are related to social determinants. Education is inversely related to lifetime pesticide exposure for farmworkers and non-farmworkers; farmworkers with H-2A visas report greater residential pesticide exposure than those without H-2A visas.

Conclusions: Occupational safety policy needs to consider these patterns of lifetime exposure when setting standards. Health care providers should be aware of the lifetime and current exposure of this vulnerable population.

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