Quandt Sara A, Austin Colin K, Arcury Thomas A, Summers Mandi E, Saavedra Rosa M
Section on Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063.
Center for Urban and Regional Studies, CB #3410, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
J Agromedicine. 1999;6(1):3-24. doi: 10.1300/J096v06n01_02.
Preventing or reducing exposure to agricultural chemicals is an important focus for health educators serving migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families. The development of the US Environmental Protection Agency Worker Protection Standard requiring that farmworkers receive pesticide-related training created a demand for culturally appropriate and effective training materials, yet no compendium of such materials exists. This paper reports the results of a search for and evaluation of training materials designed for use with farmworkers. There is considerable redundancy in the training materials currently available to health educators. Few items address the health issue of chemical residues in the fields, an important source of low level chronic chemical exposure for farmworkers. There are no published evaluations of the effectiveness of any of the materials. Our review suggests the need for further development and testing of appropriate training materials to reduce the exposure of farmworkers to agricultural chemicals.
对于服务于流动和季节性农场工人及其家庭的健康教育工作者而言，预防或减少农业化学品暴露是一个重要关注点。美国环境保护局制定的《工人保护标准》要求农场工人接受与农药相关的培训，这催生了对符合文化背景且有效的培训材料的需求，但目前尚无此类材料的汇编。本文报告了对为农场工人设计的培训材料进行搜索和评估的结果。目前健康教育工作者可获取的培训材料存在大量冗余。很少有材料涉及田间化学残留物的健康问题，而这是农场工人低水平慢性化学暴露的一个重要来源。目前尚无对任何材料有效性的公开评估。我们的综述表明，需要进一步开发和测试合适的培训材料，以减少农场工人接触农业化学品的情况。
