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Migrant Farmworkers' Perceptions of Pesticide Risk Exposure in Adams County, Pennsylvania: A Cultural Risk Assessment

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Description
Presents a study on the perceived environmental health risk of migrant farmworkers in rural Pennsylvania. Discusses the ways different cultures perceive risk and the socioeconomic status of the participants as factors in the study's conclusions.
Author(s)
Micaela Edelson, Salma Monani, Rutherford V. Platt
Citation
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 8(1), 71-96
Date
03/2018
Tagged as
Agricultural health and safety · Culture · Environmental health · Farmers and farmworkers · Migrants · Public health · Pennsylvania