Farmworker Housing Quality and Health: A Transdisciplinary Conference

农场工人住房质量与健康：跨学科会议

• 批准号: 8649823
• 负责人: Thomas A. Arcury
• 金额: $ 1.05万
• 依托单位: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8649823
• 关键词: Address; Affect; Agricultural Workers; Agriculture; Area; Biological; Burn injury; California; Case Study; Central American; Characteristics; Chemicals; Communicable Diseases; Communication; Crowding; Development; Discipline; Education; Engineering; Environmental Health; Exposure to; Financial compensation; Funding; Goals; Hand; Health; Hispanics; Housing; Human Rights; Immigrant; Injury; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Internet; Justice; Knowledge; Latino; Laws; Lead; Legal; Literature; Mental Health; Mexico; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Research Council; Nomads; Peer Review; Pesticides; Policies; Population; Production; Publications; Reporting; Research; Research Peer Review; Research Personnel; Risk; Rural; Safety; Source; Strategic Planning; Stream; Surveys; Time; Training; Translational Research; United Nations; United States; Virginia; Washington; Water; Workplace; base; environmental justice; falls; farm worker; forest; global environment; hazard; health disparity; implementation research; improved; legal brief; medical schools; physical conditioning; programs; psychologic; public health relevance; research study; research to practice; symposium; toxicant; volunteer; working group

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.

美国的农业生产通常需要农业工人的手工劳动。 很多 这些农业劳动力是由移民工人提供的，他们主要是来自墨西哥的拉丁裔/西班牙裔 其他中美洲国家。 农场工人是美国受剥削最严重的人群之一，并且 移徙者和季节性农场工人往往居住在极其恶劣的住房条件中。 农民工住房是 环境健康和正义问题，因为农场工人获得住房的机会有限，而且 他们能够获得的住房往往是其工作环境的一部分，导致他们接触到 化学、生物、物理和心理毒物。 同时，当前对农民工的研究 住房和健康问题分散在文献中，其中大量信息以非同行形式呈现。 审查来源。 必须对经过同行评审和未经同行评审的材料进行严格评估并 为进一步研究、完善现行住房标准、制定有效政策提供依据， 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。 本次会议的目标是汇集来自不同学科的专家，他们做出了贡献 以农场工人住房和健康为重点的研究和实践，以描绘当前的知识 并提出后续步骤。 这次为期一天的会议将实现四个具体目标，即：（1）巩固当前 有关为农场工人提供的住房的特点和质量的知识以及农场工人协会 农民工住房特点与农民工健康状况~（2）划定相关方向和区域 农民工住房健康与安全研究~（3）为农民工划定相关方向和领域 住房健康和安全政策〜以及（4）促进工作组的发展以支持 实施能够解决主要方向和问题的研究、教育和工程项目 会议期间确定的领域。 为实现具体目标，将委托专家组 完成关于农民工住房以及农民工住房与健康协会的三份报告。 这些报告的介绍将成为会议的主旨演讲。 主办方还将 征求志愿者介绍新完成的研究和案例研究。 主办方将发放 为本次会议编写的报告。 本次会议响应了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，以及主题 6 沟通和参与 ~ 以及目标 6、10 和 11。会议由中心组织 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 其正在进行的农村正义论坛和农场工人正义。 会议将与 两年一度的全国农场工人法律会议，2014 年 12 月在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。