Using community-based participatory research to design and initiate a study on immigrant worker health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown restaurants

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• Personal Author:
  Baker R ; Bhatia R ; Chang C ; Chen F ; Krause N ; Lee PT ; Liu SS ; Minkler M ; Morales A ; Salvatore A ; Tom A
• Description:
  Background: Restaurant workers have among the highest rates of work-related illness and injury in the US, but little is known about the working conditions and occupational health status of Chinese immigrant restaurant workers. Methods: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) was employed to study restaurant working conditions and worker health in San Francisco's Chinatown. A community/academic/health department collaborative was formed and 23 restaurant workers trained on research techniques and worker health and safety. A worker survey instrument and a restaurant observational checklist were collaboratively developed. The checklist was piloted in 71 Chinatown restaurants, and the questionnaire administered to 433 restaurant workers. Results: Restaurant workers, together with other partners, made substantial contributions to construction of the survey and checklist tools and improved their cultural appropriateness. The utility of the checklist tool for restaurant-level data collection was demonstrated. Conclusions: CBPR holds promise for both studying worker health and safety among immigrantChinese restaurantworkers and developing culturally appropriate research tools. A new observational checklist also has potential for restaurant-level data collection on worker health and safety conditions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Demography Education Food Handling Food Industry Men Mental Health Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development Stress, Psychological Women

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• Keywords:
  Age-groups Author Keywords: Community-based Participatory Research Chinese Demographic-characteristics Food-services Health-care Humans Immigrant Occupational Health And Safety Physical-reactions Physical-stress Physiological-effects Physiological-function Physiological-stress Physiology Psychological-stress Psychology Racial-factors Restaurant Sociological-factors Stress Training Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  362-371
• Volume:
  53
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044787
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2010 Apr; 53(4):362-371
• Contact Point Address:
  Meredith Minkler, DrPH, MPH, Professor and Director, Health and Social Behavior School of Public Health, 50 University Hall #7360, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
• Email:
  mink@berkeley.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Berkeley
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:02e71fd8acdfd1a548818dc0036df9abb5c6fa2a721f9ce9bf5e2eb2c6b56fa0ae6d94232ede1cc2b966ea91051bde09034aa9e25e364fb7910c81938ebbde58
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200414/cdc_200414_DS1.pdf
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