Understanding Challenges to Well-Being among Latina FarmWorkers in Rural Idaho Using in an Interdisciplinary, Mixed-Methods Approach

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Identifies social, cultural, and workplace-related risk factors impacting well-being in the public and private spheres of 70 female farmworkers in southwestern Idaho. Focuses on 6 themes specific to rural geography and farmworker populations, including long working hours, pesticide exposure, lack of enforcement of regulatory protections, food security, childcare responsibilities, and social isolation.

Cynthia L. Curl, Lisa Meierotto, Rebecca L. Som Castellano

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(1), 169

01/2021

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Agricultural health and safety · Farmers and farmworkers · Health disparities · Hispanic or Latino · Social connectedness · Statistics and data · Women · Idaho