Oral

This session will present emerging data on the practice of using ethnographic methods for a survey sample design in a community based participatory study of occupational health among immigrant workers. We will also discuss ways to improve survey response formats with Latino construction workers, and how to use ethnographic evaluation of a program to reduce occupational injuries among poultry processing workers. Additionally, we will present the challenges and implications of emerging health and safety issues faced by Vietnamese immigrant nail salon workers. Lastly, we will discuss necessary program designs to help organize immigrant day laborers on the street.

Session Objectives: 1. Identify factors that make immigrant workers hard-to-reach populations. 2. Describe survey development methods to improve on direct translation into Spanish. 3. Describe a lay health advisor approach to reducing occupational injuries in poultry processing plans. 4. Describe the successes and challenges public and environmental health advocates faced in the passage of the Safe Cosmetics Act as relates to the emerging health and safety issues of nail salon and cosmetology immigrant workers.

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing