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November 2009, Vol 99, No. S3 | American Journal of Public Health S578-S581
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.149146

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

A Community-Based Participatory Worksite Intervention to Reduce Pesticide Exposures to Farmworkers and Their Families

Alicia L. Salvatore, DrPH, Jonathan Chevrier, PhD, Asa Bradman, PhD, José Camacho, Jesús López, Geri Kavanagh-Baird, BA, Meredith Minkler, DrPH and Brenda Eskenazi, PhD

Alicia L. Salvatore, Jonathan Chevrier, Asa Bradman, Meredith Minkler, and Brenda Eskenazi are with the Center for Children's Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. José Camacho and Geri Kavanagh-Baird are with Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) and Clínica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, Salinas, CA. Jesús López is with California Rural Legal Assistance, Salinas.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Brenda Eskenazi, Center for Children's Environmental Health Research, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 2150 Shattuck Ave, Suite 600 MC 7380, Berkeley, CA 94704 (e-mail: eskenazi{at}berkeley.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking on the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

We evaluated a community-based participatory research worksite intervention intended to improve farmworkers' behaviors at work and after work to reduce occupational and take-home pesticide exposures. The workers received warm water and soap for hand washing, gloves, coveralls, and education. Self-reported assessments before and after the intervention revealed that glove use, wearing clean work clothes, and hand washing at the midday break and before going home improved significantly. Some behaviors, such as hand washing before eating and many targeted after-work behaviors, did not improve, indicating a need for additional intervention.






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