Immigration Status and Occupational Health in Agriculture

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• Personal Author:
  Beleche T ; Brownell P
• Description:
  Unauthorized immigrants are hypothesized to be particularly vulnerable to occupational injuries and illnesses, and less likely to report their workplace injuries or illnesses to their employers. If unauthorized workers are both more likely to be injured at work and less likely to report such injuries, this may render the dangerous conditions at their workplaces less visible to existing surveillance efforts. Past analysis suggests that unauthorized farmworkers were less likely to have been injured on the job than legally-authorized farmworkers. However, the present analysis finds that this apparent difference is due to differences in exposure, that is, weeks spent in US farmwork. Analysis of exposure-adjusted occupational injury rates shows no significant differences between work-authorized and unauthorized farmworkers. However, we do find that rates of reported musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) pain are significantly lower for unauthorized farmworkers relative to work-authorized non-US citizens. It remains unknown whether this difference is due to a lower true rate of MSDs or differences in reporting behavior. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Emigration And Immigration Farmers Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Agricultural Workers Farm Workers Immigrant Workers Injuries MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Occupational Health Disparities Surveillance Programs
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-62
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054068
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100400
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R03-OH-009917, 2015 Sep; :1-62
• Contact Point Address:
  Peter Brownell, RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, California 90401-3208
• Email:
  brownell@rand.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20120701
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20150630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0959119518d070ffe5a4a1fcfec89a705eab73bb76bff7cbb1c4f6563e32d4d9b7917851da4ea38d1ea962f7d34a550b76b6a9b23bd672ab9bd1e7e671ceb962
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218794/cdc_218794_DS1.pdf
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