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ReviewJournal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing2017

Farmworker Vulnerability to Heat Hazards: A Conceptual Framework.

Valerie Vi Thien Mac, Linda A McCauley

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Review in Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Climate Change, Heat, and Farmworker Health.Workplace health & safety · 2023
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  4. Structural Vulnerability and Occupational Injury Among Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2021
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  6. Heat-Related Illness Among Latinx Child Farmworkers in North Carolina: A Mixed-Methods Study.New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Valerie Vi Thien MacPostdoctoral Fellow, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Linda A McCauleyDean and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Funding

Training in Interventions to Improve Outcomes in Chronic ConditionsT32NR012715 · NINR · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GARY, REBECCA A, SONG, MI-KYUNG · 2012 to 2022
$3.2M
The Girasoles (Sunflower) StudyR01OH010657 · OH · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MCCAULEY, LINDA A. · 2014 to 2017
$2.1M
Characterization of Heat-Related Illness in Central Florida FarmworkersF31NR014611 · NINR · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI MAC, VALERIE VI THIEN · 2013 to 2016
$129k
ACL HHS T42OH008438NINR NIH HHS F31 NR014611NINR NIH HHS T32 NR012715NIOSH CDC HHS R01 OH010657
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo review factors that impact the effect of hot environments on the human body in order to develop a conceptual model of human biological response.

methodsThe organizing concept for the model development was the multilevel integration of three major factors, exposure to heat, sensitivity and adaptive capacity, and the heat stress response. Exposure of a vulnerable occupational group was used to illustrate the components of the model.

findingsComponents of this framework include the hazard (environmental heat stress), vulnerability factors (workplace exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity), and the heat stress response. The combination of the vulnerability factors of workplace exposure (work intensity, duration), sensitivity (age, gender, etc.), and adaptive capacity (hydration, clothing, work hygiene) mediate a worker's heat stress response to the hazard. A worker's heat stress response can be classified as progressing towards two outcomes: physiologic equilibrium or physiologic disequilibrium.

conclusionsThis framework provides a starting point for the design and development of studies of heat-related illness (HRI) in farmworker and other vulnerable populations exposed to rising global temperatures. CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Identification of vulnerability factors to HRI, informs research designs which will lead to the development of public health interventions.

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FarmersVulnerable PopulationsHeat Stress DisordersHot TemperatureHumansOccupational DiseasesRisk FactorsclimatefarmworkerHeat-related illnessvulnerability

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PMID28806486
PMCPMC5656499

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