title: Heat Illness Among North Carolina Latino Farmworkers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Heat exposure is an important hazard for workers in manual occupations, including farmworkers. This analysis delineates the prevalence of heat illness among farmworkers, and the factors associated with heat illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  North Carolina Latino male farmworkers completed interviews in August, 2013. They reported on heat exposure and behaviors over the previous 3 months while working both outdoors and indoors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A third (35.6%) of the participants reported heat illness while working outside, and 13.9% while working inside. Factors associated with heat illness while working outside included working in wet clothes and shoes, harvesting and topping tobacco, and spending after-work time in an extremely hot house.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Policy addressing heat illness is needed, as is more detailed research on occupational heat exposure that uses common measures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family and Community Medicine (Dr Arcury, Mr Summers, Dr Sandberg, Dr Spears Johnson); Center for Worker Health (Dr Arcury, Mr Summers, Dr Chen, Dr Sandberg, Dr Spears Johnson, Dr Quandt); Division of Public Health Sciences (Ms Talton, Dr Chen), Department of Biostatistical Sciences; Division of Public Health Sciences (Dr Quandt), Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
authors.forename: Thomas A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Arcury
authors.forename: Phillip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Summers
authors.forename: Jennifer W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Talton
authors.forename: Haiying
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Joanne C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Sandberg
authors.forename: Chaya R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Spears Johnson
authors.forename: Sara A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Quandt
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D018882:Heat Stress Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000209:etiology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report