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Editorial
. 2015 Nov;25(3):256-62.
doi: 10.1177/1048291115604426. Epub 2015 Sep 16.

Farmworker Housing Quality and Health

Thomas A Arcury  1 , Ilene J Jacobs  2 , Virginia Ruiz  3
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Editorial

Farmworker Housing Quality and Health

Thomas A Arcury et al. New Solut. 2015 Nov.

Abstract

On 11 November 2014, Farmworker Housing Quality and Health: A Transdisciplinary Conference was convened to draw together experts from the variety of disciplines who contribute to research and practice focused on farmworker housing and health in order to delineate current knowledge and propose next steps. The conference addressed three specific aims: (1) to consolidate current knowledge on characteristics and quality of housing provided for farmworkers; (2) to delineate pertinent directions and areas for farmworker housing health and safety research and policy; and (3) to facilitate the development of working groups to support the implementation of research, education, and engineering projects to improve farmworker housing. This article provides an overview of the conference.

Keywords: environmental health; housing; migrant and seasonal farmworkers; migrant labor.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting Interests

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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