title: Agribusiness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Health of Agricultural Migrant Workers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Living conditions and health of migrant farmworkers could benefit from a health promotion model based on corporate social responsibility (CSR).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To understand how Mexican agribusiness owners and general managers view and practice CSR.
  
  
  METHODS
  We interviewed 8 agribusiness owners/managers and 233 farmworkers using open-ended interviews and gathered anthropometrical data of 133 children from farmworkers families. To guide our analysis and discussion, we followed the two-dimension model of CSR proposed by Quazi and O'Brien.
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to interviewee responses, mean percentage of agreement with CSR concept was 77.4%, with a range of 54-85.7%. Main health-related issues among farmworkers were infectious diseases, crowding, and access to health-care services; there were acute cases of undernutrition among farmworkers' children and diets were of poor quality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Agribusiness owners and managers understand and practice CSR according to a wide and modern view, which contradicts with farmworkers' living conditions and health. Quazi and O'Brien model should consider the social context, in which it is analyzed, and the social manifestations of community development as a tool for further analysis on the perceptions and actions of entrepreneurs.
authors.affiliation: Coordinación de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. , Hermosillo , Mexico.
authors.forename: María Isabel
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ , USA.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sabo
authors.affiliation: Centro de Estudios en Salud, El Colegio de Sonora , Hermosillo , Mexico.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aranda Gallegos
authors.affiliation: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ , USA.
authors.forename: Jill Eileen Guernsey
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: De Zapien
authors.affiliation: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ , USA.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zapien
authors.affiliation: Coordinación de Nutrición, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo, A.C. , Hermosillo , Mexico.
authors.forename: Gloria Elena
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Portillo Abril
authors.affiliation: Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ , USA.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rosales
keywords: Mexico; agribusiness; corporate social responsibility; farmworkers; migration