Needs Assessment of Migrant Farmworkers in Southwest Virginia
Author: Boltwood, Mary Bell R.N.
Date Published: 1998
This study is the first needs assessment compiled in southwest Virginia about migrant farmworkers. Hispanic farmworkers have reportedly workers in this area for only the past six to ten years; thus, services are scant or non-existent. Farmworkers leave the relatively well-served states of North or South Carolina and enter Virginia where the closest clinics serving migrant farmworkers are two or three hundred miles away. Migrant farmworkers may spend six months of the year in this area without adequate access to suitable health care. The study will look at southwestern Virginia migrant farmworkers as a community and their difficulties assimilating into the community at larger.
Date Published: 1998
This study is the first needs assessment compiled in southwest Virginia about migrant farmworkers. Hispanic farmworkers have reportedly workers in this area for only the past six to ten years; thus, services are scant or non-existent. Farmworkers leave the relatively well-served states of North or South Carolina and enter Virginia where the closest clinics serving migrant farmworkers are two or three hundred miles away. Migrant farmworkers may spend six months of the year in this area without adequate access to suitable health care. The study will look at southwestern Virginia migrant farmworkers as a community and their difficulties assimilating into the community at larger.
