Studying Health Outcomes in Farmworker Populations Exposed to Pesticides

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• Personal Author:
  Anger WK ; Keifer, Max ; Langley R ; McCauley LA ; Robson MG ; Rohlman D
• Description:
  A major goal of studying farmworkers is to better understand how their work environment, including exposure to pesticides, affects their health. Although a number of health conditions have been associated with pesticide exposure, clear linkages have yet to be made between exposure and health effects except in cases of acute pesticide exposure. In this article, we review the most common health end points that have been studied and describe the epidemiologic challenges encountered in studying these health effects of pesticides among farmworkers, including the difficulties in accessing the population and challenges associated with obtaining health end point data. The assessment of neurobehavioral health effects serves as one of the most common and best examples of an approach used to study health outcomes in farmworkers and other populations exposed to pesticides. We review the current limitations in neurobehavioral assessment and strategies to improve these analytical methods. Emerging techniques to improve our assessment of health effects associated with pesticide exposure are reviewed. These techniques, which in most cases have not been applied to farmworker populations, hold promise in our ability to study and understand the relationship between pesticide exposure and a variety of health effects in this population. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Biomarkers Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Farmers Insecticides Neoplasms Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Acute-exposure Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Analytical-methods Cancer Exposure-assessment Neuropathy Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Work-environment

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• ISSN:
  0091-6765
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  114
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030347
• Citation:
  Environ Health Perspect 2006 Jun; 114(6):953-960
• Contact Point Address:
  L.A. McCauley, School of Nursing 427L, 420 Guardian Dr., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6096 USA
• Email:
  lmccaule@nursing.upenn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Environmental Health Perspectives
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1bac2cf35914741835f6a5ec12fbb3dd2439c032d820d25fe423c084f1eb28174039bafd19ba2a04f04650e2b943b2bb8ae586e125bb60dc9de379404157ada8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191013/cdc_191013_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 120.53 KB ]