title: Lifetime and current pesticide exposure among Latino farmworkers in comparison to other Latino immigrants.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pesticide exposure poses a health risk for farmworkers. This analysis documents lifetime and current pesticide exposure of North Carolina Latino migrant farmworkers, with comparison to non-farmworker Latino immigrants.
  
  
  METHODS
  During May to October 2012, 235 Latino farmworkers and 212 Latino non-farmworkers completed interviews with items to construct measures of lifetime, current residential and occupational pesticide exposure.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Farmworkers experience levels of lifetime and residential pesticide exposure that are consistently greater than among non-farmworkers. Farmworkers report a large number of occupational pesticide exposures. Lifetime exposure and current residential pesticide exposure are related to social determinants. Education is inversely related to lifetime pesticide exposure for farmworkers and non-farmworkers; farmworkers with H-2A visas report greater residential pesticide exposure than those without H-2A visas.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Occupational safety policy needs to consider these patterns of lifetime exposure when setting standards. Health care providers should be aware of the lifetime and current exposure of this vulnerable population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Arcury
authors.forename: Ha T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: Jennifer W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Talton
authors.forename: Lourdes Carrillo
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Holbrook
authors.forename: Francis O
authors.initials: FO
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Haiying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Timothy D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Galván
authors.forename: Sara A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Quandt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000383:Agriculture; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010575:Pesticides; D014171:Transients and Migrants
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides
keywords: agriculture; minority health
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