Farming Community
Lower levels of Chloropopham and Chlorpyrifos. (Dereumeaux et al, 2020)
What is the in-house carcinogen differences between farmer and non-farmer homes?
55.6% and 40.6%. (Keeney et al, 2023)*
What is the percent of respondents with clinical depression in a study of farmworkers at the US/Mexico border? What is the percent that had stress levels associated with significant mental health issues?
8.2% of records. (Bloss et al, 2022) *
How many studies described a health intervention to improve farmworker well-being?
Attention to Study Design.
What else should be considered when gathering information on farm communities?
During season pesticide levels were lower. (Dereumeaux et al, 2020) *
What is the pesticide levels in hair among farm communities relative to the farmworkers themselves?
Skin Disease. 95%. 3.2%. (Feldman et al, 2009)
What has the highest incidence in farmworkers of all industrial sectors? What percent of workers reported a skin problem in the previous 7 days? What percent visited the doctors?
30.7%. Cost. (Olson et al, 2023) *
In a study of almost 17000 migrant farmworkers, what percent indicated at least on barrier to care? What was the most common barrier?
Misutilizing community health workers. Slide 3 *
What is a limiting factor in creating effective interventions?
Not just proximity. Amount of area applied or land treated. Greater residues in households, higher oxidative stress, greater DNA damage, and decreased cholinesterase activity (Dereumeaux et al, 2020)
What determines pesticide exposures for those living in communities adjacent to farms?
37.5%. (Castillo et al, 2025) Slide 5 *
What is the percent of the US agriculture workforce that are Latino migrants who can't legally work in the US?
Online health information materials. (Harwell et al, 2023)
What ranged in topics relevant specifically to farmworkers from 0.6% to 42.9%?
Immodest Claims of Causality. (Farmer, 1995) *
What is the theory describing how much of the US treats migrant farmworkers?
Uganda Research! Slide 2 *
Where did people say in my initial findings that farm labor meant a higher risk for malaria?
A case study of farmworkers, all born in Mexico, with 68% at or below the federal poverty level. Risk factors included glove usage, strawberry eating, and time. (Bradman et al, 2009)
What is the research on MDA metabolite levels in farmworkers?
Accessing digital healthcare programs among migrant farmworkers in North Carolina on H-2A Visas. (Reed et al, 2026) Slide 4
What was the study that found 90.42% reported willingness, but only 13.17% had actually used digital health programs?
Significant Challenges. *
What do farmworkers face on a daily basis when maintaining our health?
Naturalization and internalization. *
What are the consequences of stigmas by the farming community towards the actual farmworkers as viewed by Seth Holmes?
Exposure to pesticides and air pollutants, physical hazards, heat, sanitation, exposure to bacteria/fungi and disease. Less clean water access. 2.3 people per room. (Castillo et al, 2025)
What are some of the risks that migrant farmworkers encounter on the job? What sort of living conditions do these workers have?
Maternal/child health, nutrition, pesticides, education, infectious disease, injury prevention.
Mental health, drug use, heat/sun safety. (Bloss et al, 2022) *
What were the most common topics in existing literature on farmworker health? Which were notable missing?
Farming needs Medicine. *
What would I conclude about migrant farmworkers relative to the topic of this course?