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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 +10 more
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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 +11 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 +3 more
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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 +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 +5 more
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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 +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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Kidney International Reports, 2020 Background: Chronic kidney disease of unknown origin (CKDu) is an epidemic that disproportionately affects young agriculture workers in hot regions. It has been hypothesized that repeated acute kidney injury (AKI) may play a role in the development of ...
Miranda Dally +6 more
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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 +23 more
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Respiratory illness in agricultural workers [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 2002 Respiratory diseases have long been recognized in association with work in farming. Overall, only a small proportion of the population is employed in agriculture, so respiratory disease in farmers is not a major public health issue. However, farmers are known to have high morbidity and mortality from certain respiratory diseases, as shown by routinely ...
Linaker, C., Smedley, J.
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