National Library of Medicine Grant (G08)
The 1960 CBS broadcast of Edward R. Murrow’s Harvest of Shame brought to light the profound health inequities experienced by migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Many of the inequities documented then continue to exist today in our current agricultural and food systems, including disproportionate exposure to pesticides and other hazards, challenges accessing healthcare, limited workplace protections, and barriers to health literacy. Indeed, farm work is one of the most dangerous occupations in America.
Using a health literacy framework, this proposal addresses health inequities at three levels:
Addressing gaps in the available information resources,
Increasing access to those resources for outreach workers working in farmworker health, and
Increasing access to health information for farmworkers and their families.
Read ECU’s news release about this grant.