Research to action: Chinese immigrant restaurant workers apply popular education and community based research for social justice

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• Personal Author:
  Baker R ; Chang C ; Krause N ; Lee PT ; Minkler M ; Salvatore A
• Description:
  This presentation describes the training and extensive involvement of low wage immigrant restaurant workers in a community-based participatory (CBPR) partnership to address the workers' concerns with occupational health and safety in San Francisco's Chinatown district. Formation and functioning of a partnership between a Chinese community based worker center organization, a local health department, and faculty and staff at two research universities, together with 17 restaurant workers is described, as are the two levels of data collection (restaurant, n=106 and individual worker, n= 433) undertaken. We then focus on the training of a core group of restaurant workers and their extensive involvement in instrument construction, survey administration, data interpretation, and dissemination and use of the findings to begin working for relevant policy change. Contributions of the project to individual and community capacity building among all team members is explored. This partnership spanned a period of 4 years and is currently in the action: campaign and policy development phase. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Demography Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Food Handling Food Industry Hazardous Substances Health Promotion Hot Temperature Men Mental Health Occupational Health Public Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development Violence Women Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Demographic-characteristics Environmental-hazards Exposure-levels Fall-protection Food-handlers Food-services Hazards Health-hazards Health-programs Heat-exposure Humans Injuries Physiological-effects Physiology Psychological-effects Psychology Public-health Risk-factors Safety-programs Sociological-factors Stress Training Violence-prevention Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  American Public Health Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044885
• Citation:
  APHA 138th Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 6-10, 2010, Denver, Colorado. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, 2010 Nov; :222567
• Contact Point Address:
  Alicia Salvatore, Stanford University, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Medical School Office Building, 251 Campus Drive, MC5411, Stanford, CA 94305
• Email:
  alicia.salvatore@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  University of California Berkeley
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  APHA 138th Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 6-10, 2010, Denver, Colorado
• End Date:
  20100831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ff4cbb7be0295b7c3f383f3afd8ecef81567144615e80271ae6f372fdb4ebe514bc09498a9c2938ec74cd400d0cc0a7cbec6e3b8fbee04c709963fd25f8d518e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200486/cdc_200486_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 42.15 KB ]