title: Mountain Pesticide Education and Safety Outreach program: a model for community collaboration to enhance on-farm safety and health.
abstract: This article showcases the outcomes of the Mountain Pesticide Education and Safety Outreach program, a collaborative effort between Christmas tree growers, cooperative extension, farmworkers, farmworker health outreach staff, and others to reduce pesticide exposure and on-farm injuries. Lessons learned during the project that can be adopted by other communities will also be shared.
authors.affiliation: Watauga County Center, Bonne, NC 28607, USA. jim_hamilton@ncsu.edu
authors.forename: Jim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sidebottom
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000193:education*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009657:North Carolina; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010575:Pesticides / Q000009:adverse effects; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014197:Trees
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides