Farmworker Housing Quality and Health: A Transdisciplinary Conference

美国的农业生产经常需要农业工人的手工劳动。大部分 这些农业劳动力由移民工人提供，他们主要是来自墨西哥和墨西哥的拉丁裔/西班牙裔美国人。 其他中美洲国家。农场工人是美国最受剥削的人群之一，而且 外来务工人员和季节性农场工人往往居住在极其恶劣的住房条件下。农场工人住房是 环境健康和正义问题，因为农场工人获得任何住房的机会有限，而且 他们可以接触到的住房往往是他们工作环境的一个组成部分，导致他们暴露在 化学、生物、物理和心理毒物。同时，对农民工的研究现状也是如此。 住房和健康在文献中零星分布，大量信息以非同行的形式呈现- 回顾了消息来源。必须对同行评审和非同行评审的材料进行严格评估和 为进一步研究提供依据，改善现行住房标准，制定有效政策， 并为农场工人提供培训，使他们能够减少因质量差而出现健康问题的风险 住房。这次会议的目标是聚集来自不同学科的专家，他们做出了贡献 以农民工住房和健康为重点的研究和实践，以勾勒出当前的知识 并提出下一步行动。这次为期一天的会议将实现四个具体目标，它将：(1)巩固现有 关于为农场工人提供的住房的特点和质量的知识，以及 农工住房特点与农工健康~(2)划定了相关方向和区域 农场工人住房健康和安全研究~(3)为农场工人划定相关方向和领域 住房健康和安全政策~和(4)促进发展工作组，以支持 实施研究、教育和工程项目，以解决主要方向和 会议期间确定的领域。为实现具体目标，将委托专家组 完成关于农工住房、农工住房与健康协会的三份报告。 这些报告的介绍将是会议的主旨发言。主办方还将 征集志愿者对新完成的研究和案例研究的介绍。主办方将向 为这次会议制作的报告。这次会议回应了NIEHS的主题和目标 2012-2017年战略计划：主题4健康差距和全球环境健康，主题6 沟通和参与~以及目标6、10和11。会议由该中心组织 为工人健康，维克森林医学院(WFSM)，加州农村法律援助(CRLA)作为一部分 其正在进行的农村司法论坛和农民工司法论坛。会议将与以下机构同时举行 两年一度的全国农民工法律会议，2014年12月，弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿。

Agricultural production in the United States (US) often requires the hand labor of agricultural workers. Much of this agricultural labor is provided by immigrant workers, who are largely Latinos/Hispanics from Mexico and other Central American nations. Farmworkers are among the most exploited populations in the US, and migrant and seasonal farmworkers often reside in extremely poor housing conditions. Farmworker housing is an environmental health and justice concern as farmworkers have limited access to any housing, and the housing to which they have access is often a component of their work environment that results in exposure to chemical, biological, physical and psychological toxicants. At the same time, current research on farmworker housing and health is scattered in the literature, with a great deal of the information presented in non-peer- reviewed sources. The peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed materials must be critically assessed and compiled to provide the basis for further research, improve current housing standards, develop effective policy, and provide training to farmworkers so that they can reduce their risks of health problems from poor quality housing. The goal of this conference is to draw together experts from the variety of disciplines who contribute to research and practice focused on farmworker housing and health in order to delineate current knowledge and propose next steps. This one day conference will achieve four specific aims, it will: (1) consolidate current knowledge on characteristics and quality of housing provided for farmworkers, and the associations of farmworker housing characteristics with farmworker health~ (2) delineate pertinent directions and areas for farmworker housing health and safety research~ (3) delineate pertinent directions and areas for farmworker housing health and safety policy~ and (4) facilitate the development of working groups to support the implementation of research, education, and engineering projects that can address the major directions and areas identified during the conference. To achieve the specific aims, groups of experts will be commissioned to complete three reports on farmworker housing, and the association of farmworker housing and health. Presentations of these reports will be the key-note addresses for the conference. The organizers also will solicit volunteer presentations of new completed research and case studies. The organizers will disseminate the reports produced for this conference. This conference responds to the themes and goals of the NIEHS 2012-2017 Strategic Plan: Theme 4 Health Disparities and Global Environmental Health, and Theme 6 Communications and Engagement~ and Goals 6, 10, and 11. The conference is being organized by the Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM), California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) as part of its ongoing Rural Justice Forums, and Farmworker Justice. The conference will be held in conjunction with the biennial National Farmworker Law Conference, in Arlington, Virginia, December, 2014.