title: Florida farmworkers' perceptions and lay knowledge of occupational pesticides.
abstract: Despite federal regulations, farmworkers often lack access to basic information about pesticides applied at their worksites. Focus groups revealed that farmworkers have developed an extensive body of lay knowledge, based on personal perceptions, about pesticides and pesticide exposure including means of pesticide exposure, means of pesticide entry into the body, and the potential health effects of pesticide exposure. We describe how this lay knowledge, when combined with technical information that is required to be provided to workers by law, provides valuable data to consider before developing and implementing health interventions designed to reduce the adverse health effects of pesticide exposure.
authors.affiliation: Center for Governmental Responsibility, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, 117629, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. flocks@law.ufl.edu
authors.forename: Joan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Flocks
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Monaghan
authors.forename: Stan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albrecht
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bahena
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida; D017144:Focus Groups; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010575:Pesticides / Q000633:toxicity*
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides