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Tetanus Vaccination in Agricultural Workers: A Retrospective Study on Seroprevalence over 10 Years [PDF]

Vaccines
Background/Objectives: Tetanus is a serious, non-contagious infection caused by Clostridium tetani, which remains a global health threat despite the availability of an effective vaccine. The current state of immunization for agricultural workers in Italy
Ermanno Vitale, Veronica Filetti, Giorgio Bertolazzi, Gabriele Giorgianni, Nektaria Zagorianakou, Andrea Marino, Massimiliano Esposito, Vincenzo Restivo, Serena Matera, Venerando Rapisarda, Luigi Cirrincione   +10 more
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Exposure of Syrian refugee agricultural workers to pesticides in Lebanon: a socio-economic and political lens [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
This article adopts a socio-economic and political lens to elucidate the interplay of factors that heighten the vulnerability of Syrian refugee agricultural workers and their exposure to pesticides in Lebanon.
Bandar Noory, Rima R. Habib, Iman Nuwayhid   +2 more
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High SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Rapid Neutralizing Antibody Decline among Agricultural Workers in Rural Guatemala, June 2020–March 2021

Vaccines, 2022
Essential agricultural workers work under occupational conditions that may increase the risk of SARS-CoV-2 exposure and transmission. Data from an agricultural worker cohort in Guatemala, and anti-SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid IgG (anti-N IgG) testing were ...
Chelsea Iwamoto, Kelsey E. Lesteberg, Molly M. Lamb, Diva M. Calvimontes, Kejun Guo, Bradley S. Barrett, Kaylee L. Mickens, Lindsey M. Duca, Jose Monzon, Anna N. Chard, Gerber Guzman, Edgar Barrios, Neudy Rojop, Kareen Arias, Melissa Gomez, Claudia Paiz, Guillermo Antonio Bolanos, Kathryn M. Edwards, Emily Zielinski Gutierrez, Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner, Edwin J. Asturias, Mario L. Santiago, J. David Beckham, Daniel Olson   +23 more
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Lack of Agreement between Safety Priorities and Practices in Agricultural Operators: A Challenge for Injury Prevention

Safety, 2022
Despite training and prevention programs, injury rates in agriculture remain high, and safety compliance is a challenge. Our aim was to compare farm operators’ reported safety priorities to related behaviors.
Cheryl L. Beseler, Risto H. Rautiainen
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AGEING OF EMPLOYEES IN POLAND COMPARED TO OTHER EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES: AGRICULTURAL WORKERS VS. OTHER OCCUPATIONS [PDF]

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists, 2023
The problem of the ageing labour force in agriculture and the effects of this process have been studied and widely discussed for a long time. The paper aims to determine the level and pace of ageing of employees in Poland compared to other European Union
Michał Dudek, Anna Rosa
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Pouvoir parler des pesticides ? Une recherche-action pour éprouver les capabilités des travailleurs viticoles (Gironde, France)

VertigO, 2021
In France, the intense public debate on pesticides is still hardly accessible to agricultural workers, even though they are expected to change their practices and are highly exposed.
Ludovic Ginelli, Jacqueline Candau, Agossè Nadège Degbelo, Camille Noûs   +3 more
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Exposure of agricultural workers in California to wildfire smoke under past and future climate conditions

Environmental Research Letters, 2022
Wildfire activity in the western U.S. has increased in frequency and severity in recent decades. Wildfire smoke emissions contribute to elevated fine particulate matter (PM _2.5 ) concentrations that are dangerous to public health. Due to the outdoor and
Miriam E Marlier, Katherine I Brenner, Jia Coco Liu, Loretta J Mickley, Sierra Raby, Eric James, Ravan Ahmadov, Heather Riden   +7 more
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Chronic disease burden among Latino farmworkers in California

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Farmworkers are an essential workforce to maintain California's extensive agricultural production. However, this mostly Latino, immigrant population is affected by high poverty rates and food insecurity, which increases their risk of chronic diseases. We
Susana L. Matias, Caitlin D. French, Alexander Gomez-Lara, Marc B. Schenker   +3 more
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) for the Summertime in the Period 2000–2021 in Slovenia: The Implication of Heat Stress for Agricultural Workers

Agronomy, 2023
Due to climate change crisis, the risk of occupational heat stress for agricultural workers has recently increased. The temporal and spatial biometeorological conditions in different climatic regions of Slovenia during summer were analyzed using the ...
Zalika Črepinšek, Zala Žnidaršič, Tjaša Pogačar   +2 more
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Increased extreme humid heat hazard faced by agricultural workers

Environmental Research Communications, 2023
Increases in population exposure to humid heat extremes in agriculturally-dependent areas of the world highlights the importance of understanding how the location and timing of humid heat extremes intersects with labor-intensive agricultural activities ...
Connor D Diaz, Mingfang Ting, Radley Horton, Deepti Singh, Cassandra D W Rogers, Ethan Coffel   +5 more
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