title: Farmworker Housing Quality and Health.
abstract: On 11 November 2014, Farmworker Housing Quality and Health: A Transdisciplinary Conference was convened to draw together experts from the variety of disciplines who contribute to research and practice focused on farmworker housing and health in order to delineate current knowledge and propose next steps. The conference addressed three specific aims: (1) to consolidate current knowledge on characteristics and quality of housing provided for farmworkers; (2) to delineate pertinent directions and areas for farmworker housing health and safety research and policy; and (3) to facilitate the development of working groups to support the implementation of research, education, and engineering projects to improve farmworker housing. This article provides an overview of the conference.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA tarcury@wakehealth.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Arcury
authors.affiliation: California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., Marysville, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Ilene J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: Farmworker Justice, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ruiz
mesh_terms: D000067565:Farmers; D006304:Health Status; D006798:Housing / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D012107:Research Design; D064890:Social Determinants of Health; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: environmental health; housing; migrant and seasonal farmworkers; migrant labor