Female farmworkers' perceptions of pesticide exposure and pregnancy health

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• Personal Author:
  Economos J ; Flocks J ; Kelley M ; McCauley L
• Description:
  Occupational pesticide exposure may be hazardous to pregnant farmworkers, yet few studies have focused on the health of female farmworkers distinct from their male counterparts or on the impact of agricultural work tasks on pregnancy outcomes. In the current community-based participatory research study, researchers conducted five focus groups with female nursery and fernery workers in Central Florida to enhance knowledge of attitudes about occupational risks and pregnancy health and to gather qualitative data to help form a survey instrument. This article presents the results from questions focused on pesticide exposure and its impact on general, reproductive, pregnancy, and fetal health. Workers reported a belief that pesticide exposure could be hazardous to pregnancy health; descriptions of symptoms and health concerns believed to be related to farmwork and to pesticide exposure; and descriptions of barriers preventing them from practicing safer occupational behaviors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Behavior Education Epidemiology Farmers Fetus Insecticides Mass Behavior Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Poisoning Pregnancy Race Factors Safety Urogenital Diseases Urogenital System Women

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Attitude Author Keywords: Farmworkers Employee-exposure Employee-health Fertility Focus Groups Group-behavior Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Poisons Prenatal-exposure Qualitative-analysis Racial-factors Reproductive-effects Reproductive-hazards Reproductive Health Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  1557-1912
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Georgia ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20041743
• Citation:
  J Immigr Minor Health 2012 Aug; 14(4):626-632
• Contact Point Address:
  J. Flocks, Center for Governmental Responsibility, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, 230 Bruton-Geer, PO Box 117629, Gainesville, FL 32611-7629, USA
• Email:
  flocks@law.ufl.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2012
• Performing Organization:
  Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
• End Date:
  20131231
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:65a23d96df129dc5d4ad61957a009ffd0b2f22b7555380fb5a8c1cc1e724cbb27451948d51f7615cb27bda6087579611b4830418eef80a3382a1e61792c198fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194223/cdc_194223_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 144.09 KB ]