Journal article
A campus-community partnership for farmworkers' health: interventions for tomato workers in Tennessee
Progress in community health partnerships, Vol.8(4), pp.501-510
2014
DOI: 10.1353/cpr.2014.0056
PMID: 25727983
Abstract
Migrant farm workers are exposed to job hazards in Tennessee, which is among the top five tomato-producing states.
This project sought to cultivate and evaluate a partnership to marshal greater resources to address migrants' concerns and to better prepare future health professionals to address occupational issues.
In the spring of 2008, an interprofessional student-faculty team at a regional university catalyzed a partnership with a clinic for migrants and a national network caring for the itinerant underserved.
Several community-based participatory research (CBPR) activities are underway. The partnership has resulted in the following projects: Use of the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) method to identify job tasks likely to be injurious, development and use of a health screening questionnaire to capture more information about occupational health, and continuing education seminars for providers and a case-based curriculum module for third-year medical students.
Interprofessional service learning about migrant occupational health issues may have its greatest impact as participating students enter the regional workforce, caring for patients employed in slow-to-change agricultural operations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A campus-community partnership for farmworkers' health: interventions for tomato workers in Tennessee
- Creators
- Ken SilverKarin HoffmanSharon LouryNathan B FethkeAmy LiebmanNicole ManzSteve ManockAlexis AndinoMichael BradfieldDavid MorrissetteJoseph Florence
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Progress in community health partnerships, Vol.8(4), pp.501-510
- DOI
- 10.1353/cpr.2014.0056
- PMID
- 25727983
- NLM abbreviation
- Prog Community Health Partnersh
- ISSN
- 1557-0541
- eISSN
- 1557-055X
- Publisher
- United States
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health; Industrial and Systems Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9983997325502771
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