| Document ID (ISN) | 100017 |
| CIS number |
02-1244 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1076-2752 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2001 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Arcury T.A., Quandt S.A., Preisser J.S., Norton D. |
| Title |
The incidence of green tobacco sickness among Latino farmworkers |
| Bibliographic information |
July 2001, Vol.43, No.7, p.601-609. 33 ref. |
| Abstract |
The prevalence and incidence density (ID) and the risk factors of green tobacco sickness among minority farm workers in North Carolina were estimated. Using a prospective surveillance design, 182 farm workers were interviewed up to 5 times at biweekly intervals in 1999. The green tobacco sickness prevalence was 24.2%, whereas the ID was 1.88 days per 100 days worked. Greater work experience (more than five years ID = 0.87; first year ID = 2.41) and nonsmoking status (nonsmoker ID of 1.18 compared to smoker ID of 2.39) were negatively associated with green tobacco sickness. Tasks and working in wet clothing had the largest effect. More effort must be directed toward preventing this occupational illness that affects workers who have little control over workplace safety. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
green-tobacco sickness; tobacco farming; agriculture; migrant workers |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
poisoning; USA; nicotine; frequency rates; skin absorption; statistical evaluation; symptoms |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Agriculture
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