Making vulnerability visible: medical repatriation and Canada’s migrant agricultural workers
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منابع مشابه
Agribusiness, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Health of Agricultural Migrant Workers
BACKGROUND Living conditions and health of migrant farmworkers could benefit from a health promotion model based on corporate social responsibility (CSR). OBJECTIVE To understand how Mexican agribusiness owners and general managers view and practice CSR. METHODS We interviewed 8 agribusiness owners/managers and 233 farmworkers using open-ended interviews and gathered anthropometrical data o...
متن کاملMigrant farm-workers and health.
Many diseases are more common among Latinos/as than nonHispanic Whites. Rates of teenage pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, diabetes, cirrhosis and cervical cancer are higher among Latinos/as. In particular, rates of alcohol abuse, motor vehicle accidents and interpersonal trauma are higher among Hispanic migrant farm workers. Furthermore, Latinas, including those in farming communit...
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To clarify the mortality pattern of migrant tunnel workers, a retrospective cohort study was conducted in the southern part of Oita Prefecture, which is well known as a source area for tunnel workers. This study was made on 1,078 tunnel workers and 943 non-tunnel workers who were observed for 8 years and 6 months from January 1975 to June 1983. The overall SMR of tunnel workers was 162 which wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.141189