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Environmental Health Threats to Latino Migrant Farmworkers
(Annual Reviews Inc., 2021-01-04)
Approximately 75% of farmworkers in the United States are Latino migrants, and about 50% of hired farmworkers do not have authorization to work in the United States. Farmworkers face numerous chemical, physical, and ...
Assessment of dermal exposure to bitumen condensate among road paving and mastic crews with an observational method
(Oxford University Press, 2011-05-19)
Objective: To assess dermal exposure to bitumen condensate among road pavers and indoor mastic workers in multiple crews using a semi-quantitative observational method [DeRmal Exposure Assessment Method (DREAM)].Methods: ...
Informality, social citizenship, and wellbeing among migrant workers in Costa Rica in the context of COVID-19
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022-05-20)
Costa Rica is home to 557,000 migrants, whose disproportionate exposure to precarious, dangerous, and informal work has resulted in persistent inequities in health and wellbeing in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. We ...
Nefropatía mesoamericana: revisión breve basada en el segundo taller del Consorcio para el estudio de la Epidemia de Nefropatía en Centroamérica y México (CENCAM)
(Elsevier, 2016)
Mesoamerican nephropathy (MeN) is a form of endemic chronic kidney disease (CKD) unrelated to diabetes or hypertension and its causes are still undetermined. Clinically, patients
with MeN have no or only mild proteinuria ...
Assessment of pesticide exposure in the agricultural population of Costa Rica
(British Occupational Hygiene Society, 2005)
We describe a model for the retrospective assessment of parental exposure to 26 pesticides, selected by toxicity-based prioritization, in a population-based case–control study of childhood leukaemia in Costa Rica (301 ...
Mortality and Cancer Incidence of Workers in Finnish Road Paving Companies
(Wiley-Liss, Inc., 2003)
Background This study, a component of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Multicentric Study on Cancer Risk Among European Asphalt Workers, aimed at identifying major mortality risks among workers in ...
Microplastics: New substrates for heterotrophic activity contribute to altering organic matter cycles in aquatic ecosystems
(Elsevier, 2018-09-01)
Heterotrophic microbes with the capability to process considerable amounts of organic matter can colonize
microplastic particles (MP) in aquatic ecosystems. Weather colonization of microorganisms on MP will alter eco ...
Evaluation of a battery of toxicity tests for use in the assessment of water quality in a Costa Rican laboratory
(Wiley Periodicals, Estados Unidos, 2000)
The Laboratory for Ecotoxicological Studies (ECOTOX) of IRET evaluated the following toxicity tests: Daphnia magna (daphnia test), Hydra attenuata (hydra test), Allium sp. (onion test), Panagrellus redivivus (nematode ...
Heat exposure in sugarcane workers in Costa Rica during the non-harvest season
(Global Health Action, 2010)
This observational pilot study was carried out at three sugarcane companies in Costa Rica. Its main objective
was to determine the potential for heat stress conditions for workers in one sugarcane-growing region in
Costa ...
Descriptive Epidemiology of Somatising Tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study
(Public Library of Science, 2016-04-29)
Somatising tendency, defined as a predisposition to worry about common somatic symp toms, is importantly associated with various aspects of health and health-related behaviour,
including musculoskeletal pain and associated ...