A partnership to promote the health of indigenous farmworkers in Oregon

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• Personal Author:
  Abernathy M ; Farquhar SA
• Description:
  An increasing number of farmworkers in Oregon come from indigenous communities in Mexico and Guatemala. In addition to speaking different languages, indigenous workers have distinct cultural traditions and few agencies have acquired the language skills or cultural competence necessary to assist these workers. The community-driven project, Promoting the Occupational Health of Indigenous Farmworkers, is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and addresses the health needs of indigenous farmworkers. The project partners include the Oregon Law Center, labor union advocacy organization Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste, Salud Medical Center, Portland State University, the Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc., and indigenous farmworkers. In an effort to identify priorities for workplace education and policy change, and to develop local leadership among indigenous farmworkers, the Partnership worked collaboratively during the first months of the project to train farmworkers and other advocates to conduct focus groups. This presentation will describe the focus group training, and the eight focus group meetings conducted with leaders from the farmworker communities, and representatives of health care, labor, and social service organizations. The presenters will discuss the results of the focus group data, and describe how the results were used to inform the education, intervention, and policy change efforts identified as priorities. We will discuss the challenges of working on sensitive issues, such as health, discrimination, and legal status, and describe methods used to address these potential barriers to collaboration and project implementation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Demography Farmers Occupational Health Race Factors Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Community Collaboration Demographic-characteristics Indigenous Populations Injuries Racial-factors Risk-factors Standards Statistical-analysis Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Worker-motivation Workplace-monitoring

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• Publisher:
  American Public Health Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039878
• Citation:
  APHA 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 10-14, 2005. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2005 Dec; :115417
• Contact Point Address:
  Michelle Abernathy, BA. School of Community Health, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751
• Email:
  karena@pdx.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  Oregon Law Center
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  APHA 133rd Annual Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 10-14, 2005
• End Date:
  20080731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2cfd9471bb98b784f62434a93f431016417d5dba2fc1964d0cee37d45eb1b25903b57684202c222e10195bfa86f21cab074723a86f2d20b351290d9400d0a88b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192941/cdc_192941_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 89.01 KB ]