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The impact of heat exposures on biomarkers of AKI and plasma metabolome among agricultural and non-agricultural workers

Environment International, 2023
Background: Agricultural workers are consistently exposed to elevated heat exposures and vulnerable to acute kidney injury. The underlying pathophysiology and detailed molecular mechanisms of AKI among agricultural workers, and the disproportionate ...
Roxana C. Chicas, Yilin Wang, E. Jennifer Weil, Lisa Elon, Nezahualcoyotl Xiuhtecutli, Madelyn C. Houser, Dean P. Jones, Jeff M. Sands, Vicki Hertzberg, Linda McCauley, Donghai Liang   +10 more
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Factors associated with TB screening among agricultural workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa

Global Health Action, 2023
Background Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a public health issue of concern in South Africa. Workers in the agricultural sector are generally at increased risk of TB due to multiple interacting factors such as exposure to silica dust, co-worker ...
Nosimilo Mlangeni, Molebogeng Malotle, Felix Made, Jonathan Ramodike, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Christine Du Preez, Nikki Stuart Thompson, Muzimkhulu Zungu   +7 more
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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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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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Health Behavior, Level of Hemoglobin A1c, and Quality of Life Among Agricultural Workers of Various Ethnicities in Thai Border Communities

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundLittle is known about the glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and quality of life (QoL) in ethnic minority agricultural workers. We investigated the links among health behaviors, HbA1c levels, and QoL ethnic agricultural workers living in rural ...
Sorawit Boonyathee, Parichat Ong-Artborirak, Katekaew Seangpraw, Prakasit Tonchoy, Supakan Kantow, Sasivimol Bootsikeaw, Nisarat Auttama, Monchanok Choowanthanapakorn, Dech Dokpuang, Pitakpong Panta   +9 more
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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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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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Lifestyle parameters of Japanese agricultural and non-agricultural workers aged 60 years or older and less than 60 years: A cross-sectional observational study.

PLoS ONE, 2023
ObjectivesImproving the lifestyle of occupational workers is essential for extending healthy life expectancy. We investigated various lifestyle-related items in a rural Japanese population and compared them between agricultural and non-agricultural ...
Fumie Kinoshita, Kei Yoshida, Masaya Fujitani, Yuta Imai, Yumiko Kobayashi, Tomoya Ito, Yuto Okumura, Hiroyuki Sato, Tatsuya Mikami, Songee Jung, Akihiro Hirakawa, Masahiro Nakatochi   +11 more
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