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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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Community health workers and promotores de salud: a tiered framework for infectious disease prevention and care among California agricultural workers [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Agricultural workers in the United States face a disproportionate burden of infectious diseases, including tuberculosis, HIV, coccidioidomycosis, viral hepatitis, and COVID-19, driven by occupational exposures, crowded housing, poverty, and limited ...
Kaivalya Kasturi, Nancy Burke, Geetha Sivasubramanian   +2 more
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Medication Patterns as a Lens on Health Needs Among Migrant Agricultural Workers in Informal Settlements in Apulia: A Descriptive Outreach Study [PDF]

Infectious Disease Reports
Background: Migrant agricultural workers in Italy often experience social and health vulnerabilities, including unstable housing and limited access to primary care.
Cesare De Virgilio Suglia, Renato Laforgia, Marcella Schiavone, Anna Belfiore, Giacomo Guido, Rosa Buonamassa, Alba Cuxart-Graell, Martina Di Noto, Valeria Mele, Emanuele Costanza, Venilia Cocco, Alexandre Meduri, Lucia Raho, Nicole Laforgia, Roberta Iatta, Giovanni Putoto, Francesco Di Gennaro   +16 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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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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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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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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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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