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The Health of Children in the Latinx Farmworker Community in the Eastern United States

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Latinx Farmworkers in the Eastern United States

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Children in Latinx farmworker communities are present as dependents of adult farmworkers or as hired farmworkers themselves. Both groups are at risk of health effects from their residence in these communities. Increasingly, the children in farmworker families are United States (US) citizens. The research based in the eastern US is fragmentary, but growing. It indicates substantial health risks tied to poverty, rural residence, and issues related to documentation status of children or their family members. Children in farmworker families experience limited access to both medical and dental care. Their two primary health issues are risk of overweight and obesity and risk of exposure to pesticides. Hired child farmworkers face substantial occupational health risks due to their physical, behavioral, and emotional immaturity. Existing research notes dangers of pesticide and heat exposure in particular. Improving the health of children in farmworker communities may require providing greater access to government services and revision of existing labor laws that permit minor children to work in agriculture without the protections afforded children in other industries.

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