Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia 30460-8015, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2012;17(4):386-97. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2012.713837.
Agricultural labor involves exposure to many occupational hazards, some of which can lead to chronic health conditions. The purpose of this study was to conduct an occupational health needs assessment of illnesses and work-related injuries among a Latino migrant farmworker population (recruited to harvest Vidalia onions) in South Georgia. Study data included survey responses from 100 farmworkers attending mobile farm clinics in 2010 at their worker housing residences, supplemented by medical diagnoses data from the same clinics collected over 3 years (2009-2011) for 1161 farmworkers at six different farms. From the survey, the main health problems reported were hypertension (25%), eye problems (12%), musculoskeletal problems (11%), diabetes (10%), and depression (7%). In multivariate analyses, depression scores were associated with having a history of musculoskeletal problems (p = .002). According to the mobile farm clinic data, the most common medical diagnoses included back pain (11.8%), hypertension (11.4%), musculoskeletal problems (11.3%), gastrointestinal disorders (8.6%), eye problems (7.2%), dermatitis or rash (7.0%), and tinea or fungal skin infections (5.6%). The study identified eye and musculoskeletal problems as the major occupational health conditions for this population of farmworkers.
农业劳动会接触到许多职业危害，其中一些可能导致慢性健康问题。本研究的目的是对佐治亚州南部的拉丁裔移民农场工人（招募来收获维达利亚洋葱）的疾病和与工作相关的伤害进行职业健康需求评估。研究数据包括 2010 年在他们的工人住房居住处参加流动农场诊所的 100 名农场工人的调查应答，以及来自同一诊所的医疗诊断数据补充，该数据是在六年的六个不同农场中，对 1161 名农场工人在 2009 年至 2011 年期间收集的。从调查中，报告的主要健康问题是高血压（25%）、眼部问题（12%）、肌肉骨骼问题（11%）、糖尿病（10%）和抑郁症（7%）。在多变量分析中，抑郁评分与肌肉骨骼问题的病史有关（p =.002）。根据流动农场诊所的数据，最常见的医疗诊断包括背痛（11.8%）、高血压（11.4%）、肌肉骨骼问题（11.3%）、胃肠道疾病（8.6%）、眼部问题（7.2%）、皮炎或皮疹（7.0%）和癣或真菌性皮肤感染（5.6%）。该研究确定眼部和肌肉骨骼问题是该农场工人群体的主要职业健康状况。
