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Occupational and Environmental Health Risks in Farm Labor

Author: Arcury, Thomas A.
Date Published: 1998


This essay discusses general occupational and environmental health risks that those who provide farm labor--farmers, farm families, and farmworkers--experience as a result of commercial agriculture. It briefly reviews some of the farm safety research literature, highlighting the important trend of listening to those who perform farm labor as they speak for themselves about their health and safety concerns. It concludes that applied anthropology has a key role to play in reducing occupational and environmental health risks for farm labor by conducting the research that indicates the most proximate causes of farm injury and illness, and by developing appropriate interventions to address these causes.

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