Occupational health of hired farmworkers in the United States. National agricultural workers survey occupational health supplement, 1999.
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TL;DR
This document presents nationally representative data on hired crop farmworker occupational health, based on face-to-face interviews with 3,613 hired farmworkers between October 1, 1998 and September 30, 1999, and hopes that it will prove useful for agricultural health and safety professionals, researchers, and farmworker service organizations.
Abstract
Hired farmworkers form a core component of the agricultural workforce in the United States, numbering an estimated 1.8 million workers. Very little national health data exists on this population because of difficulties in identifying and enumerating them