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Agricultural injury in California Hispanic farm workers: MICASA follow-up surveyStephen A McCurdy
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
J Agromedicine 18:39-49. 2013..Prevention should focus on safe handling of tools and materials, falls, and motor vehicle safety...
Willingness to provide behavioral health recommendations: a cross-sectional study of entering medical studentsStephen A McCurdy
Regional Medicine Public Health Education Center, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
BMC Med Educ 12:28. 2012..Unfortunately, many clinical encounters do not include prevention counseling, and medical school curriculum plays an important role in training and promoting such counseling among medical students...
Ethnic and gender differences in farm tasks and safety practices among rural California farm youthStephen A McCurdy
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
J Occup Environ Hyg 9:362-70. 2012..Further study should explore reasons for low use of safety measures and develop educational efforts to bring about social norm changes promoting their use...
Agricultural injury risk among rural California public high school students: prospective resultsStephen A McCurdy
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
Am J Ind Med 55:631-42. 2012..To characterize prospective agricultural injury experience among rural California Central Valley public high school students enrolled in agricultural sciences curriculum...
Agricultural injury among rural California public high school studentsStephen A McCurdy
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, 95616 8638, USA
Am J Ind Med 55:63-75. 2012....
Nonfatal occupational injury among California farm operatorsS A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, USA
J Agric Saf Health 10:103-19. 2004..Preventive efforts should focus on higher-risk groups and preventing overexertion and muscle strain and injury related to machinery, falls, and animals, especially livestock...
Smoking and occupation from the European Community Respiratory Health SurveyS A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Occup Environ Med 60:643-8. 2003..The workplace offers a potentially effective venue for tobacco prevention programmes; identifying occupational groups with high smoking prevalence may assist in targeting such programmes...
Agricultural injury in California migrant Hispanic farm workersStephen A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Am J Ind Med 44:225-35. 2003..Agriculture is among the most hazardous industries in the United States...
Preventive medicine teaching cases in the preclinical undergraduate medical curriculumStephen A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, 95616, USA
Am J Prev Med 24:108-10. 2003..Issues include flexibility of the curriculum, student acceptance of case-based learning, and effect of preceptor availability and training on the successful implementation of the C-POP curriculum...
Agricultural injuryS A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Ave Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
Am J Ind Med 38:463-80. 2000..Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in the US...
Tuberculin reactivity among California Hispanic migrant farm workersS A McCurdy
University of California Agricultural Health and Safety Center, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine 95616 8638, USA
Am J Ind Med 32:600-5. 1997..Public-health efforts in this population should focus on ever-smokers, young adults, and persons born outside the U.S...
The California Agricultural Workers Health SurveyD Villarejo
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, USA
J Agric Saf Health 14:135-46. 2008..3 - 44.7). Persistent stomach aches among male and female participants was associated with being required to taste unwashed grapes for sweetness while picking (male: OR 4.6, 95% CI: 2.1 - 9.9; female: OR 5.8, 95% CI: 2.6 - 12.6)...
Costs of occupational injuries in agricultureJ P Leigh
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine TB168, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616 8638, USA
Public Health Rep 116:235-48. 2001..This study was conducted to estimate the costs of job-related injuries in agriculture in the United States for 1992...
The health of California's immigrant hired farmworkersDon Villarejo
California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis, California, USA
Am J Ind Med 53:387-97. 2010..Hispanic immigrant workers dominate California's hired farm workforce. Little is known about their health status; even less is known about those lacking employment authorization...
Costs differences across demographic groups and types of occupational injuries and illnessesJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care and Department of Public Health Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95817, USA
Am J Ind Med 49:845-53. 2006..Little is known about cost differences for demographic groups or across occupational injuries and illnesses...
Differences in workers' compensation disability and impairment ratings under old and new California lawJ Paul Leigh
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
J Occup Environ Med 48:419-25. 2006..Previous methods used to rate permanent disability were replaced by new methods to rate permanent impairment. We sought to estimate the difference in ratings under the old and new law...
Agricultural dust exposure and respiratory symptoms among California farm operatorsMarc B Schenker
Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
J Occup Environ Med 47:1157-66. 2005..To study whether dust exposure in California agriculture is a risk factor for respiratory symptoms...
Injury risks in children of California migrant Hispanic farm worker familiesStephen A McCurdy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616 8638, USA
Am J Ind Med 42:124-33. 2002..Few data are available addressing occupational and other injury risks among children of migrant Hispanic farm workers...
Early morbidity after total hip replacement: rheumatoid arthritis versus osteoarthritisR H White
Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis
J Gen Intern Med 5:304-9. 1990..The short-term outcome of patients with rheumatoid arthritis appears comparable to that of patients with osteoarthritis...
Public health education at the University of California, Davis: past, present, and future programsDavid W Hird
Department of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
J Vet Med Educ 35:219-24. 2008....
Normal range of human red blood cell acetylcholinesterase activityDaniel E Arrieta
Department of Animal Science, University of California Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA
Drug Chem Toxicol 32:182-5. 2009..0008 delta pH units/hour for each year; P < 0.001) unlikely to be clinically significant. The findings represent the largest study of human RBC-AChE to date providing measures of central tendency and variation...
Medical surveillance of clandestine drug laboratory investigatorsJefferey L Burgess
University of Arizona, 1435 N Fremont, Box 210468, Tucson, AZ 85719 4197, USA
J Occup Environ Med 44:184-9. 2002..Law enforcement personnel investigating clandestine drug laboratories may have long-term respiratory effects from chemical exposure, for which more assiduous use of respiratory protection is recommended...
