A Culturally Appropriate Farmworker Pesticide Safety Program

Pesticide policy and farmworker health.

Developing a Culturally Appropriate Depression Prevention Program: Opportunities and Challenges

Developing a culturally appropriate depression prevention program: the family coping skills program.

Depression is a disorder that can have particularly deleterious effects on individuals from racial/ethnic minority and low-income backgrounds. Culturally appropriate prevention programs offer a way to provide accessible and effective mental health services to these underserved populations. The authors introduce the Family Coping Skills Program (FCSP), a novel depression prevention program devel...

Insect Population Dynamics, Pesticide Use, and Farmworker Health

We address the impacts of regulations designed to reduce pesticide poisoning of farmers and farm laborers. Attention is concentrated on pre-harvest interval regulations that impose a time interval between pesticide application and harvest. The incidence of poisoning is determined by aggregate pesticide use, worker exposure, and toxicity. A dynamic, stochastic model of insect population growth i...

A pilot program using promotoras de salud to educate farmworker families about the risk from pesticide exposure.

This paper reviews a successful community-based education effort to minimize pesticide exposure to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families through innovative training curricula, informal participatory educational techniques and culturally sensitive outreach methods. In 2004, Migrant Clinicians Network, Inc., trained lay health educators, or promotoras de salud, from local agencies i...