Case Study:
Agriculture in Wicks County relies heavily on the labor of migrant and seasonal farmworkers. There are an estimated 22,000 undocumented, largely foreign-born Latino workers harvesting crops in Wicks County at any-given time. Agriculture relies heavily on chemicals such as fertilizers, growth-regulators, and pesticides. Because of the hand-labor involved in harvesting crops, farmworkers are at an especially high risk of exposure. Through a Community Needsl Assessment, you have determined that the Quality of Life for migrant farmworkers has been adversely affected by pesticide related symptoms and illnesses.
You are tasked with developing a Health Education Program and have partnership agreements from the local University and a local non-profit agency.
A review of literature on pesticide exposure found ingestion, inhalation, and transdermal exposure (through the skin) can cause mild to severe, immediate or delayed effects to systems including neurological, immunological, respiratory, and reproductive. Hospital Emergency Room data and the California Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program records were examined for incidence, prevalence, and severity of es. Interviews with local health care workers fou following information relevant to program planning.
Exposure is under reported and under treated due to lack of transportation, language barriers, and fear of losing jobs or deportation.
Washing hands and body is important to reduce transfer of pesticides.
1. Identify (1) behavioral factor that might be contributing to this health problem-either from the reading or make a logical connection. (2 pts)
2. For your behavioral risk factor identify: (Be as specific as possible)
one (1) predisposing (1pt)
one (1) reinforcing (1 pt)
one (1) enabling factor (1 pt)
3. Based on your priority behavioral risk factor, develop one (1) SMART intermediate-term outcome objective for your program. (2 pt)
4. For your theoretical framework, you decide to use constructs from Social Cognitive Theory or the Health Belief Model. Using either Perceived susceptibility, Perc Severity, Outcome Expectations, efficacy briefly describe a specific ac y you will use in your program. (3pt)
5. Based on the construct used above, develop one (1) SMART short-term outcome objective for your program. (2 pt)
