Assignment on American Journal of Public Health

NAME OF THE STUDENT
NAME OF THE UNIVERSITY
Nichols, M., Stein, A. D., & Wold, J. L. (2014).
Health status of children of migrant farm workers:
farm worker family health program, Moultrie,
Georgia. American journal of public
health, 104(2), 365-370.

This article focuses on the issue of migrant farmworkers in Moultrie,
Georgia. There are 26% of crop workers in the United States and around
61% of the crop workers are below the poverty line. Most of them are
from Mexico without a proper standard of living and a minimum income.
They are a target of occupational hazards such as physical labor, contact
with poisonous plants and chemicals, pesticide related illness,
musculoskeletal and respiratory illness, extreme weather conditions,
compromised reproductive and oral health. Similarly, their children also
go through these health complications including food insecurity. Medical
practitioners rate these children 2 to 3 times more vulnerable to poor
health outcomes such as diarrhea, nutritional deficiency, hearing loss and
dental problems. The major issue of the article is the ill health status of
migrant children of the farmers.
SCOPE

RATIONALE
This study is important because farmers are the core component of the
agricultural industry in Georgia. This industry majorly relies on the
manual labor of these farmers but they do not get the due credit
because they are migrants who are known as ‘the Citizen’s Other’.
Their health issues are not considered as they are from Latin America.
Georgia has a robust agricultural industry and one riverside county
consist of approximately 600 farms and all of them rely on the labor of
migrant farmers, which affects the health of their children.
This study is chosen for the same reason that their health matters for
the public because without them the agriculture industry will not
flourish.