JUSTA: Justice and Health for Poultry Workers

描述(由申请人提供) 该项目的总体目标是通过社区倡导者、环境健康科学和医疗保健提供者的伙伴关系(JUSTA-家禽工人正义与健康)，解决北卡罗来纳州西部农村地区拉美裔移民家禽工人面临的健康差距。美国家禽业的工人经历了不成比例的职业导致的肌肉骨骼、皮肤和呼吸系统疾病。该行业最近的趋势将伤害集中在贫困、少数族裔和主要由移民组成的工人群体中。这些工人被有目的地招募到当地民众拒绝的工作中，缺乏保护自己免受危险的手段。工人的暴露也会影响到他们的家人。为了给这些工人带来更大的社会和环境正义，拟议的工作将有两个地点：帮助个人工人及其家人更能适应压力源，加强以社区为基础的组织，以便他们能够走向社会和监管改革和正义。社区倡导者、卫生保健提供者和环境健康研究人员将在这个项目中共同努力，以解决五个具体目标：1)鼓励北卡罗来纳州西部拉丁裔社区倡导团体采取社会行动，以实施政策，减轻家禽业就业造成的职业和环境健康差距的负担；2)建立基础，以教育材料和传播战略为基础，旨在防止或减少拉丁裔家禽工人家庭暴露于身体和社会职业压力及其影响；3)开发文化和语言上适当的教材，并实施方案，以促进预防或减少拉美裔家禽工人家庭暴露于身体和社会职业压力及其影响的方法；4)开发教育材料，实施方案，使卫生保健提供者更好地做好准备，认识和治疗与移民家庭的家禽生产和加工有关的疾病，并就预防或减少接触的方法向家庭提供建议；5)评估社区参与这一项目的过程和结果，以便其他社区组织可以利用它来动员社区居民努力减少自己社区的环境和职业风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The overall goal of this project is to address the health disparities faced by immigrant Latino poultry workers in rural, western North Carolina (NC), through a partnership (JUSTA-Justice and Health for Poultry Workers) of community advocates, environmental health sciences, and health care providers. Workers in the poultry industry in the U.S. experience a disproportionate share of occupation-attributed musculoskeletal, skin and respiratory disorders. Recent trends in this industry have concentrated the injuries in a worker population that is poor, minority, and comprised predominantly of immigrants. These workers are purposively recruited into jobs rejected by the local population, and lack the means to protect themselves from hazards. The exposures of workers also affect their families. To bring about greater social and environmental justice for these workers, the proposed work will have two loci: helping individual workers and their families to be more resilient to stressors, strengthening community-based organizations so that they can move toward social and regulatory change and justice. Community advocates, health care providers and environmental health researchers will work together in this project to address five Specific Aims: 1) to encourage social action by Latino community-based advocacy groups in western NC to effect policies that reduce the burden of occupational and environmental health disparities due to employment in the poultry industry; 2) to construct the foundation on which to base educational materials and communication strategies designed to prevent or reduce exposure to physical and social occupational stressors and their effects among Latino poultry worker families; 3) to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materials and implement programs that will promote ways to prevent or reduce exposure to physical and social occupational stressors and their effects among Latino poultry worker families; 4) to develop educational materials and implement programs that will better prepare health care providers to recognize and treat with cultural competence illnesses related to poultry production and processing among immigrant families, and counsel families on ways to prevent or reduce exposure; and 5) to evaluate the process and outcomes of community participation in this project so that it can be used by other community-based organizations to engage community residents in efforts to reduce environmental and occupational risks in their own communities.