Journal Article

Female Farmworkers’ Perceptions of Pesticide Exposure and Pregnancy Health

McCauley, Linda, Economos, Jeannie, Flocks, Joan, Kelley, Maureen

2012

نظرة عامة

Occupational pesticide exposure may be hazardous to pregnant farmworkers, yet few studies have focused on the health of female farmworkers distinct from their male counterparts or on the impact of agricultural work tasks on pregnancy outcomes. In the current community-based participatory research study, researchers conducted five focus groups with female nursery and fernery workers in Central Florida to enhance knowledge of attitudes about occupational risks and pregnancy health and to gather qualitative data to help form a survey instrument. This article presents the results from questions focused on pesticide exposure and its impact on general, reproductive, pregnancy, and fetal health. Workers reported a belief that pesticide exposure could be hazardous to pregnancy health; descriptions of symptoms and health concerns believed to be related to farmwork and to pesticide exposure; and descriptions of barriers preventing them from practicing safer occupational behaviors.

• الناشر: Springer US,Springer Nature B.V
• موضوع: Abortion / Adolescent / Adult / African Americans - statistics & numerical data / Agricultural Workers' Diseases - chemically induced / Agricultural Workers' Diseases - ethnology / Agricultural Workers' Diseases - prevention & control / Attitudes / Births / Community-Based Participatory Research / Comparative Law / Data collection / Farm workers / Farmworkers / Female / Female employees / Florida - epidemiology / Focus Groups / Greenhouses / Health / Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice - ethnology / Hispanic Americans / Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data / Human exposure / Humans / Infertility, Female - chemically induced / Infertility, Female - ethnology / Infertility, Female - prevention & control / International & Foreign Law / Leaves / Medicine / Medicine & Public Health / Middle Aged / Noncitizens / Occupational Exposure - adverse effects / Occupational Exposure - prevention & control / Occupational safety / Original Paper / Pesticides / Pesticides - poisoning / Pregnancy / Pregnancy Complications - chemically induced / Pregnancy Complications - ethnology / Pregnancy Complications - prevention & control / Prenatal care / Private International Law / Public Health / Qualitative Research / Reproductive health / Researchers / Social research / Sociology / Studies / Symptoms / Womens health / Workers / Young Adult