Asthma among Household Youth on Hispanic Farm Operations

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Household farm youth comprise all youth 0-19 years of age who live on the farm and include working and non-working youth. In 2000, approximately 18,000 youth lived on Hispanic farm operations: 1,300 household youth had been diagnosed with asthma (72 asthmatics per 1,000 youth living on Hispanic farm operations); 16-19 year olds had the highest prevalence rate of asthma (91 asthmatics per 1,000 youth living on Hispanic farm operations); 250 household youth required professional medical attention for asthma (14 asthmatics per 1,000 youth living on Hispanic farm operations); 403 household youth had at least one asthma attack in the last year while doing farm work (50 asthmatics per 1,000 youth living on Hispanic farm operations); 16-19 year olds had the highest prevalence rate for having an asthma attack while doing farm work (61 asthmatics per 1,000 youth living on Hispanic farm operations). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Age Factors Agriculture Asthma Asthma, Occupational Environmental Exposure Farmers Farms Hispanic Or Latino Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Race Factors Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors; Age-groups; Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-workers; Agriculture; Occupational-hazards; Racial-factors; Farmers; Bronchial-asthma; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Respiratory-system-disorders; Surveillance
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2004-158, 2004 Jun; :1-8
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Handout/Flyer
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025034
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2a676be7415a5017629dba8f0715f890bb42f7d799b057df663551aa32a4518afbb677483d88b3ef896394677b827ecaf07aaaf014f241869d552a771fa3b621
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/47252/cdc_47252_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 111.99 KB ]