Exploring workplace TB interventions with foreign-born Latino workers

Birthplace is associated with more adverse dietary profiles for US-born than for foreign-born Latino adults.

Our objective was to examine the association between ethnicity and birthplace and the percent of energy from selected food groups among Hispanics, the largest growing segment of the US population. We used data from NHANES 1999-2004, collected from Mexican (n = 3375) and other Hispanic (n = 622) adults (18 y and older), classified as foreign born (FB) or US born (USB). Using University of North ...

Traumatic occupational injuries in Hispanic and foreign born workers.

BACKGROUND Hispanic and foreign-born workers suffer high rates of occupational fatality. Reasons for this are not well understood. Our aim was to gather information about the details related to severe, non-fatal occupational injuries in this vulnerable population. METHODS Eight years of data were obtained from an urban trauma center. In addition, medical consultations of individuals admitted ...

Foreign-born workers: trends in fatal occupational injuries, 1996-2001

Katherine Loh is formerly an economist in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions; and Scott Richardson is a program manager in the same office, Bureau of Labor Statistics. E-mail: Richardson.Scott@ bls.gov. Workplace fatalities among foreign-born workers reflect the large influx of those workers into the U.S. workforce and their employment in occupations and industries with inherentl...

The prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome in Latino poultry-processing workers and other Latino manual workers.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) in Latino poultry-processing workers. METHODS Symptoms and nerve conduction studies were used to prospectively assess 287 Latino poultry-processing workers and 226 Latinos in other manual-labor occupations. RESULTS The prevalence of CTS was higher in poultry-processing (8.7%) compared with nonpoultry manual workers (4.0%;...

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