Hired Latino Youth Farmworkers: Work Organization, Safety, Hazards, and Health

 描述(由申请者提供)：农业是美国一个独特的行业，年轻人可以参与其中。在没有父母同意的情况下，可以雇用年满14岁的青年从事农活，在父母同意的情况下，可以雇用年仅10岁的青年从事农活。从事农业的青年可以使用锋利的工具、机械和农药工作，也可以从事繁重的种植、耕种和收获农作物的工作，以及与大型动物一起工作。青年农业工人的受伤和患病比率极高。在对儿童农业伤害的分析中，很少考虑雇用青年、移民和季节性农场工人的安全和健康。受雇的青年农场工人是更大的弱势移民农场工人社区的一部分，包括季节性农场工人家庭的儿童、移民家庭的儿童和无人陪伴的青年。移徙和季节性农场工人是健康差距很大的弱势群体；青年雇用的拉丁裔农场工人的经历，包括骚扰和虐待，使他们面临更大的风险。然而，很少有研究记录青年雇佣的拉丁裔农场工人的安全和健康。这个项目是基于社区倡导者、青年和学术研究人员之间的社区参与式研究合作。它将以10至15岁的青年农场工人为重点，采用混合方法，将深度访谈的定性分析与来自详细访谈、临床检查和生物标志物的纵向统计数据相结合，以解决3个具体目标：(1)描述受雇的拉丁裔青年农场工人的共同工作经历，包括为什么和何时工作，他们执行的任务，他们的培训和监督，他们的工作条件，他们认为与工作相关的好处和危险，以及他们如何相信农场工作影响他们的健康；(2)描述(A)受雇拉丁裔青年农场工人的个人和发展特征、工作特征、工作组织和工作安全文化；(B)他们经历的与工作相关的职业、环境和社会危害；(C)他们的行为、心理和身体健康特征；(3)确定(A)受雇拉丁裔青年农场工人的工作特征和危险与其健康特征之间的联系；以及(B)工作特征和危害与健康之间的关系如何受到工作组织、安全文化和发展特征的影响。该项目具有重大意义和创新性，因为它将提供受雇青年农场工人经历的职业危害的纵向数据，并记录他们工作所在的工作组织和安全生产文化。它考察了农业工作和危险如何影响直接的身体伤害，以及这些因素如何影响这些儿童的心理和行为健康。这些信息将为安全流程和政策提供信息。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Agriculture is a unique industry in the United States in the manner in which youth can be involved. Youth as young as 14 years of age can be employed to do farm work without parental consent, and youth as young as 10 years can be employed to do farm work with parental consent. Youth employed in agriculture can work with sharp tools, machinery, and pesticides, as well as do the strenuous tasks of planting, cultivating and harvesting crops, and working with large animals. The rates of injuries and illness among youth agricultural workers are extremely high. The safety and health of hired youth migrant and seasonal farmworkers are seldom considered in analyses of child agricultural injuries. Hired youth farmworkers are part of the larger vulnerable immigrant farmworker community, and include children in seasonal farmworker families, those in migrant families, and unaccompanied youth. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers are a vulnerable population that experiences significant health disparities; the experiences of youth hired Latino farmworkers, which includes harassment and abuse, places them at even greater risk. However, little research has documented the safety and health of youth hired Latino farmworkers. This project is based on a community-based participatory research collaboration between community advocates, youth, and academic investigators. Focused on youth farmworkers aged 10 to 15 years, it will use a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews with longitudinal statistical data from detailed interviews, clinical examinations, and biomarkers to address 3 specific aims: (1) describe the common work experiences of hired Latino youth farmworkers, including why and when they work, the tasks they perform, their training and supervision, their working conditions, the benefits and hazards they perceive are associated with work, and how they believe farm work influences their health; (2) delineate (a) the personal and developmental characteristics, work characteristics, work organization, and work safety culture of hired Latino youth farmworkers; (b) the work related occupational, environmental, and social hazards they experience; and (c) their behavioral, psychological, and physical health characteristics; and (3) determine the (a) associations of work characteristics and hazards of hired Latino youth farmworkers with their health characteristics; and (b) how the associations of work characteristics and hazards with health are affected by their work organization, safety culture, and developmental characteristics. This project is significant and innovative because it will provide longitudinal data on the occupational hazards experienced by hired youth farmworkers, and document the work organization and work safety culture in which they work. It examines how agricultural work and hazards affect immediate physical injury, but also how these factors influence the psychological and behavioral health of these children. This information will inform safety process and policy.