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3424.0: Monday, November 05, 2007: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
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| This session will discuss new and emerging data from the Agricultural Health Study about high pesticide exposure events. It will also discuss the prevalence and predictors of self reported skin disease among farmworkers and ways to promote the awareness, identification and prevention of work related symptoms. The session will also present new information on community surveys of environmental and occupational concerns among Hispanic agricultural workers and will discuss the analyses of occupational illness and implementation of preventative strategies on a tobacco farm. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: 1. To help governmental pesticide regulators and State Agricultural Extension Agents to understand the underlying causes of HPEE, for improving regulations and advice aimed to prevent them 2. Describe work characteristics that are associated with skin problems among farmworkers. 3. Describe common issues which discourage health care providers from making work related diagnoses or pursuing changes to reduce work exposures | ||||
| Moderator(s): | Kerry Souza | |||
| 4:30 PM |  | High Pesticide Exposure Events (HPEE): Lessons learned from the Agricultural Health Study Ruth H. Allen, PhD, David T. Mage, PhD, Anuradha Kodali, MBBS, MPH | ||
| 4:45 PM | | Prevalence and predictors of self reported skin disease among farmworkers Quirina M. Vallejos, MPH, Mark Schulz, Sara A. Quandt, PhD, Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD, Leonardo Galvan, Alan B. Fleischer, MD, Stephen R. Rapp, PhD, Amit Verma, MPH, Thomas A. Arcury, PhD | ||
| 5:00 PM | | Promoting awareness ,identification and prevention of work related symptoms at a mobile migrant worker clinic in Central New York Michael B. Lax, MD MPH, Rosemary Klein, MS, C-ANP, COHN-S, Peter Cronkright, MD | ||
| 5:15 PM | | Analyses of Occupational Illnesses and Implementation of Preventive Strategies at a Connecticut Tobacco Farm: A Pilot Study William Carter III, BS, Marcia C. Trapé-Cardoso, MD, Edward Sapiain, Labor Educator, Bruce E. Gould, MD, Israel Cordero, BS | ||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | ||||
| Organized by: | Occupational Health and Safety | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | |||
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