Understanding the role of social factors in farmworker housing and health

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Kissam E ; Marsh B ; Milofsky C
• Description:
  Differences in social advantage significantly influence health conditions and life expectancy within any population. Such factors reproduce historic class, race, and ethnic disparities in community success. Few populations in the United States face more social and economic disadvantage than farmworkers, and farmworker housing has significant potential to ameliorate or amplify the health impact of those disadvantages. Drawing on the limited direct research on farmworkers, and on additional research about poor, isolated, and immigrant societies, we propose four mechanisms through which housing can be expected to affect farmworker health: quality of social capital within farmworker communities, stress effects of poor housing situations, effects of housing on social support for healthy behaviors, and interactions among these factors, especially effects on children that can last for generations. Policy and planning definitions of "adequate" farmworker housing should take a more holistic view of housing needs to support specific social and community benefits in design decisions. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Farmworker Health Environmental Health Farmworker Housing Farm Workers Social Capital Social Factors Socioeconomics Sociological Factors
• ISSN:
  1048-2911
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement ; Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Kentucky ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  313-333
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047565
• Citation:
  New Solut 2015 Nov; 25(3):313-333
• Contact Point Address:
  Ben Marsh, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837
• Email:
  marsh@bucknell.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e4936cba68718db68875f3368fc9b1f25745a6cf5b26c9753c8117a27f90f92aa79f50cdf62edf6466374bd1ea84d8d178d1145f2975f1bd64eef2a6978256b1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202584/cdc_202584_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 156.92 KB ]