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Library Guide 13

Occupational Health of Farmworkers in USA

Background Sources
Pesticides and Other Health Concerns
Statistical Sources
Laws
Library Catalogs: Subjects
PubMed Searching
Internet Sources
Other Collections

A guide to selected, recent resources on the occupational health and safety of farmworkers. All materials are located in the Public Health Library unless otherwise noted.

Background Sources

AgHealth News from UC Davis

Agricultural health and safety: recent advances. K. J. Donham, et al., eds. RC965.A5 A356 1997

Farm labor contractor safety and health guide. M. Alvarez. S451.C2 A48 1998

Guidelines for the care of migrant farmworkers' children. RA448.5.M5 G85 2000

Simple solutions: ergonomics for farm workers. S. Baron, et al., eds. S565.S54 2001

Suffering in silence: a report on the health of California's agricultural workers. D. Villarejo et al. IGS 2001 0112

Young agricultural workers in California. M. Gonzalez Arroyo and L. Kurre. HD7269.A292.U58 1997

Pesticides and Other Health Concerns

Air pollution: special reports; Migrant and seasonal farmworkers and pesticides: community-based approaches to measuring risks and reducing exposure. T. A. Arcury and S. A. Quandt, eds. RA565.A1 E6 v.109 suppl. 3

Fields of poison: California farmworkers and pesticides. M. Reeves, et al. RA1270.P4 F54 1999

Occupational hazards of pesticide exposure: sampling, monitoring, and measuring. D. J. Ecobichon, ed. RA 1270.P4 O226 1999

Pesticides: improvements needed to improve the safety of farmworkers and their children: report to congressional inquirers. US GAO report. RA1270.P4 U55 2000 Main Stacks

Physician reporting of pesticide illnesses. M. K. Orr. RA1270.P4 O77 2000

Recognition and management of pesticide poisonings, 5th ed. J. R. Reigart and J. R. Roberts, eds. RA1270.P4.R45 1999

Worker exposure to agrochemicals: methods for monitoring and assessment. R. C. Honeycutt and E. W. Day, Jr., eds. RA1270.P4 W59 2001

Statistical Sources

Fatal unintentional farm inuries among persons less than 20 years of age in the United States: geographical profiles HD7269.F32.U6 2001

Injuries among farm workers in the United States, 1995. HD7269.A292.M9 2001.

Injuries among youth on farms in the United States, 1998 (Online only)

Occupational Health and Safety Health Fact Sheet by the California-Mexico Health Initiative, University of California Office of the President

Occupational injuries and illnesses--counts, rates, and characteristics. US Bureau of Labor Statistics. HD7262.5U6 U54a Latest on Reference-Statistics

Laws

Pesticide worker safety regulations: extracts from California code of regulations. Cal/EPA. SB952.5 C3 1999

Library Catalogs: Subjects

To find other books or journals, search the library catalog in both the title and subject field, unless you know the Library of
Congress Subject Heading for the subject you are researching.. Subject headings are frequently different from commonly
used terms. For example, to find works on Native Americans, you would have to search for subject 'Indians of North America' - if you didn't know this subject heading, you would have better luck searching for Title words 'Native Americans health' and
then looking at the subject headings assigned to appropriate works to then do a subject search.

Suggested subject headings for researching farmworker health:

Agricultural laborers

--Diseases

--Housing

--Legal status, laws, etc.

--Health and hygiene

--Medical care

Agricultural workers' diseases

Agriculture--accidents

Children of migrant laborers

--Care and hygiene

Migrant agricultural laborers

--Diseases

--Health and hygiene

Migrant labor

Pesticides

-Adverse effects

-Application

-Law and legislation

-Poisoning

-Safety measures

-Toxicology

Pesticide applicators -- Diseases and Hygiene

In some cases, geographical subheadings such as California or United States may be added to the search term, eg., Agricultural laborers - California.

PubMed Searching

PubMed [Internet database]. 1953 to date.

Journal articles indexed by the National Library of Medicine.

Suggested subject headings for researching farmworker health:

Agricultural workers' diseases

Agriculture

Agrochemicals

Farmers' lung

Insecticides

Occupational dermatitis

Occupational diseases

Occupational exposure

Pesticide residues

Pesticides

Rural health

Rural population

Transients and migrants

Internet Sources

See also the Public Health Library's Toxicology/Occupational Health Resources web page.

Other Collections

Labor Occupational Health Program Library, 2223 Fulton, 4th Floor, 643-4335
Affiliated with UC Berkeley, this occupational health library has paper and pamphlet files, journals, and books on every aspect of workplace health and safety. The library also specializes in worker education materials. The program produces written and audiovisual training materials. Hours are from 8:00 to 5:00, Monday through Friday. Library assistance is generally available from Monday through Thursday9:30-3:00 and Friday 12:30-3:00; please call ahead to verify. The library is open to the public.

Ethnic Studies Library, 30 Stephens Hall, 643-1234
This specialized research collection covers the Mexican American experience including immigration and agricultural labor. One of their publications, Chicano Database, indexes books, journals, reports, and other documents related to Mexican American life and culture. Of particular interest, are primary source materials on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

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