JUSTA: Justice and Health for Poultry Workers

JUSTA：家禽工人的正义与健康

基本信息

批准号：
6814135
负责人：
Sara A Quandt
金额：
$ 21.15万
依托单位：
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2004
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2004-09-01 至 2008-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The overall goal of this project is to address the health disparities faced by immigrant Latino poultry workers in rural, western North Carolina (NC), through a partnership (JUSTA-Justice and Health for Poultry Workers) of community advocates, environmental health sciences, and health care providers. Workers in the poultry industry in the U.S. experience a disproportionate share of occupation-attributed musculoskeletal, skin and respiratory disorders. Recent trends in this industry have concentrated the injuries in a worker population that is poor, minority, and comprised predominantly of immigrants. These workers are purposively recruited into jobs rejected by the local population, and lack the means to protect themselves from hazards. The exposures of workers also affect their families. To bring about greater social and environmental justice for these workers, the proposed work will have two loci: helping individual workers and their families to be more resilient to stressors, strengthening community-based organizations so that they can move toward social and regulatory change and justice. Community advocates, health care providers and environmental health researchers will work together in this project to address five Specific Aims: 1) to encourage social action by Latino community-based advocacy groups in western NC to effect policies that reduce the burden of occupational and environmental health disparities due to employment in the poultry industry; 2) to construct the foundation on which to base educational materials and communication strategies designed to prevent or reduce exposure to physical and social occupational stressors and their effects among Latino poultry worker families; 3) to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate educational materials and implement programs that will promote ways to prevent or reduce exposure to physical and social occupational stressors and their effects among Latino poultry worker families; 4) to develop educational materials and implement programs that will better prepare health care providers to recognize and treat with cultural competence illnesses related to poultry production and processing among immigrant families, and counsel families on ways to prevent or reduce exposure; and 5) to evaluate the process and outcomes of community participation in this project so that it can be used by other community-based organizations to engage community residents in efforts to reduce environmental and occupational risks in their own communities.

描述（由申请人提供）该项目的总体目的是通过通过伙伴关系（为家禽工人的Justa-Justice and Health）解决社区倡导者，环境健康科学和卫生保健提供者的合作伙伴关系（Justa-Just-Justice and Health）来解决北卡罗来纳州乡村（NC）移民拉丁裔家禽工人所面临的健康差异。美国家禽行业的工人经历了占领肌肉，皮肤和呼吸系统疾病的占比例不成比例的。该行业的最新趋势集中在贫困，少数群体和主要由移民组成的工人人口中的伤害。这些工人有目的地招募当地人口拒绝的工作，并且缺乏保护自己免受危害的手段。工人的暴露也影响了他们的家人。为了为这些工人带来更大的社会和环境正义，拟议的工作将有两个基因座：帮助个人工人及其家人对压力源更具韧性，从而加强基于社区的组织，以便他们可以朝着社会和法规的变革和正义迈进。社区倡导者，卫生保健提供者和环境健康研究人员将在该项目中共同努力解决五个具体目标：1）鼓励西部北卡罗来纳州西部基于拉丁裔社区的倡导团体的社会行动，以实施减少由于家禽行业就业而导致的职业和环境健康差异负担的政策； 2）建立基础的基础，旨在防止或减少拉丁裔家禽工人家庭中的身体和社会职业压力及其影响； 3）在文化和语言上发展适当的教育材料，并实施计划，以促进防止或减少拉丁裔家禽工人家庭中的身体和社会职业压力及其影响的方式； 4）开发教育材料并实施计划，以便更好地准备医疗保健提供者，以识别和治疗与移民家庭中与家禽生产和处理有关的文化能力疾病，并就预防或减少暴露的方式为家庭提供咨询； 5）评估社区参与该项目的过程和成果，以便其他基于社区的组织可以使用它来吸引社区居民，以减少自己社区中的环境和职业风险。