A Comprehensive Care Program for Migrant Farmworkers
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Health issues of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
This paper describes the socioeconomic conditions under which the 3 to 5 million migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States live. Health consequences resulting from occupational hazards and from poverty, substandard living conditions, migrancy, language and cultural barriers, and impaired access to health care are described. Specific problems include infectious diseases, chemical- an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4593655