Community-based participatory research and occupational health disparities: pesticide exposure among immigrant farmworkers

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Quandt SA
• Description:
  Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has become a widely accepted approach to involve minority and vulnerable communities in health research (Arcury, Quandt, & Dearry, 2001; Brody et al., 2009; Kreuter, Kegler, Joseph, Redwood, & Hooker, 2012; Quandt, Arcury, Austin, & Cabrera, 2001; Rhodes et al., 2012; Viswanathan et al., 2004). CBPR is a format that allows research to address the actual health concerns of minority and vulnerable communities, involves community members in all components of the research process to improve the quality and relevance of the research and to grow the skills of community members, and returns information from the research to the community in a format that individuals can use to improve and protect their health and leaders can use to improve policy. However, with a few exceptions, CBPR has not been used to address occupational health disparities. Communities are social groups with shared identities, experiences, and histories, even if the social groups are not limited to a geographic locale. Occupational groups often fit this definition of community, and CBPR is an appropriate approach for research and intervention. For example, CBPR has been used for research on the occupational health of farmworkers (Coronado et al., 2011; Farquhar, Shadbeh, Samples, Ventura, & Goff, 2008; Flocks, Kelley, Economos, & McCauley, 2012; Samples et al., 2009) and with immigrant Latino and African American poultry processing workers (Lipscomb, Epling, Pompeii, & Dement, 2007; Marín et al., 2009; Quandt et al., 2006). It also has been used in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a safety-training program for Latino day laborers (Williams, Ochsner, Marshall, Kimmel, & Martino, 2010). Each of these occupational groups is a vulnerable population. The goal of this chapter is to introduce the use of CBPR in conducting research with minority and vulnerable occupational communities. We begin by defining CBPR and discussing its characteristics and by providing conceptual and operational models of CBPR as translational science. We present a specific CBPR project, PACE3: Community Participatory Approach to Measuring Farmworker Pesticide Exposures, focused on the occupational health (pesticide exposure) of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina to illustrate the conceptual and operational models of CBPR. We conclude with a discussion of issues to consider when developing a CBPR project that addresses occupational health disparities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Healthcare Disparities Minority Health Occupational Health Public Health Race Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Diversity Health Disparities Minority Health Occupational Health Occupational Health Disparities Occupational Health Programs Public-health Racial Factors Worker Health Workers
• ISBN:
  9781433826924
• Publisher:
  American Psychological Association (APA)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; New York ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  89-111
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049453
• Citation:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers. Leong FTL, Eggerth DE, Chang C-H, Flynn MA, Ford JK, Martinez RO, eds. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association (APA), 2017 Feb; :89-111
• Editor(s):
  Leong FTL; Eggerth DE; Chang C-H; Flynn MA; Ford JK; Martinez RO
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational health disparities: improving the well-being of ethnic and racial minority workers
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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