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This article proposes the development of a 'constructed prevention' approach as an alternative to the dominant safety models used in the agricultural environment. It is based on the theoretical frameworks of safety in psychology and ergonomics (industrial safety, patient safety and resilience), and in particular regulated and managed safety, in order to identify the conditions for the development of constructed prevention. We attempted to test this model of prevention by analysing pesticide exposure situations based on three agricultural case studies. These cases relate to prospects for contributions to the design of vineyard sprayers (Albert, 2022), to the real protection resources during sowing as part of a project in collaboration with the MSA (Fredj, 2021), and to the limits imposed on the use of pesticide containers in France and Quebec (Goutille, 2022; Jolly, 2022). It emerges that constructed prevention involves the development of individual and collective practices aimed at preserving health. The process is based on participatory methods for analysing and then transforming and designing the activity, which require action to be taken on determinants close to and distant from the work situation. The challenge of this approach is that of strengthening the development of prevention based on an understanding and on a construction founded on human work. We then propose the items to be taken into account in the diagnosis and development of activity-based prevention. This work is a contribution to the development of an operating model of safety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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La présente étude a pour objectif l’évaluation des connaissances, attitudes et pratiques des travailleurs de la Carrigrès sur l’hygiène, santé et sécurité au travail en vue de prévenir les accidents de travail et les maladies professionnelles. Cette entreprise compte 120 travailleurs regroupés en agents du service administratif et du secteur de la production dans une étude descriptive transversale menée auprès de la société Carrigrès. Les résultats ont montré que les connaissances des travailleurs sur l’hygiène, santé et sécurité au travail ont été évaluées à 88,3%. Près de 40% des participants ont connu un accident de travail au cours de leur carrière et 50% d’entre eux étaient pris en charge par l’entreprise. De façon générale, les travailleurs avaient une bonne connaissance sur l’hygiène, la sécurité et la santé au travail ainsi que sur les risques professionnels liés au travail.

The occurrence of an accident or a disease can disrupt the social and occupational integration of the patient. The general practitioner must be able to identify this situation at risk of work disability. The clinical situations concerned are those of patients who can no longer, a priori, continue working under the same conditions. The analysis of the professional literature has made it possible to identify the chronological course of care, from the acute phase to the resumption of work or cessation of activity, respecting the rights. It identifies the contacts and the tools to be used in each step. The main challenges are related to legislative and regulatory developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of an accident or a disease can disrupt the social and occupational integration of the patient. The general practitioner must be able to identify this situation at risk of work disability. The clinical situations concerned are those of patients who can no longer, a priori, continue working under the same conditions. The analysis of the professional literature has made it possible to identify the chronological course of care, from the acute phase to the resumption of work or cessation of activity, respecting the rights. It identifies the contacts and the tools to be used in each step. The main challenges are related to legislative and regulatory developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

University teaching quality depends on the workforce of the institution, both teachers and administrative staff. Considering this population has been little investigated, the present study aims to know the role of variables (sociodemographic and behavioral), burnout and work engagement on physical and mental health in a group of workers in a private university in Lima, Peru. In order to achieve this goal, mental and physical health (SF-36), burnout (MBI) and work engagement (UWES) were assessed in a group of 512 university personnel from Lima, Peru. Results showed that, even when they keep a good physical functioning, there're high report psychosomatic complaint, low energy, pain problems, overweight and poor health behavior. No differences between sex, age or type of work were found. The variables that better predicted physical and mental health were hours of sleep, work engagement, especially "vigor" component; as well as burnout components "emotional exhaustion" and "professional efficacy". Moreover, "Cynicism" predicts mental health, but not physical health. Results provide important information about workers health promotion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of an accident or a disease can disrupt the social and occupational integration of the patient. The general practitioner must be able to identify this situation at risk of work disability. The clinical situations concerned are those of patients who can no longer, a priori, continue working under the same conditions. The analysis of the professional literature has made it possible to identify the chronological course of care, from the acute phase to the resumption of work or cessation of activity, respecting the rights. It identifies the contacts and the tools to be used in each step. The main challenges are related to legislative and regulatory developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of an accident or a disease can disrupt the social and occupational integration of the patient. The general practitioner must be able to identify this situation at risk of work disability. The clinical situations concerned are those of patients who can no longer, a priori, continue working under the same conditions. The analysis of the professional literature has made it possible to identify the chronological course of care, from the acute phase to the resumption of work or cessation of activity, respecting the rights. It identifies the contacts and the tools to be used in each step. The main challenges are related to legislative and regulatory developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Les auteurs examinent les effets de la pollution sur l'offre de travail, sous un angle peu étudié: la publication d'informations sur la pollution. S'appuyant sur le lancement du programme national de publication des chiffres de la pollution atmosphérique en Chine, ils montrent, grâce à une analyse en doubles différences et à des données d'enquête sur les travailleurs migrants, que la publicité de ces données a entraîné une baisse significative du temps de travail des métiers en extérieur, donc un changement de comportement, et que mesurer le coût de la pollution sans prendre en compte le problème de l'asymétrie de l'information pourrait engendrer des biais. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was intended to analyze mediation strategies (defense and coping) of Venezuelans to deal with experiences of suffering at work, reflecting about the impacts on their mental health. It is a qualitative, cross-sectional and exploratory research with 16 Venezuelan migrants living in the southern region of Brazil. A sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview were used, with data interpreted by Content Analysis. The defense strategies were denial, control, isolation, and rationalization. Those coping were support at work, learning and leaving the company. Mental health at work was linked to feelings of belonging, appreciation, and growth, dialoguing with the meaning of work, while pathological suffering appeared mainly in unemployed women, with depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts. It is noticed that work is central to them, their identities, and subjectivities. COVID-19 has increased vulnerabilities, especially among the unemployed. Crucial points that need greater attention were highlighted, providing clues that can support clinical practices and public policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The manager's function consists in getting others to do things. Thus, the manager is above all the one who must "take charge", i.e. motivate, control and supervise the activity of his team members. As the bearers of organizational modes and responsible for their implementation, managers can find themselves victims of these models and sometimes suffer from psychosocial risks. In this context, isn't it time to imagine a management style that does not overlook work, but that really understands it and starts from the real work of the different protagonists? Is this possible? And how can we think about managerial work itself? This contribution proposes a new conception of management integrating the analyses formulated by the French-speaking critical approaches developed by researchers in the human and social sciences, analyses taken up and extended by ergology. Indeed, the vision of work carried by ergology induces an alternative vision of management, which would no longer imply simply "making others do it" but rather "doing it with others", i.e. co-constructing the meaning to be given to one's work, to the organization to which one belongs and to living together. After having proposed a brief history of management with regard to the critical works devoted to management, we will explain how the ergological approach makes it possible to found a new approach to management. Then, we will see how this new approach consisting in "doing with" would bring elements of response in terms of health at work for the employees as well as for the managers themselves. We will propose a renewal of the function of the managers who must pass from doing to the ambition of "doing with". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychosocial risks increase when work is hindered or even prevented, with no subsequent discussion on work issues or without allowing satisfactory solutions to be found. This may be the case when managers do not benefit from conditions that are essential to the exercise of their function and have difficulty doing their job. Understanding the origin of these difficulties and seeking to remedy them can then become the best way to reduce the psychosocial risks to which employees are exposed. This is the idea that we develop in this article, based on our intervention in a non-profit organization managing a medico-social facility. This intervention was requested by the facility's Social and Economic Committee (CSE), which had noted an accumulation of complaints from employees since the implementation of a new organization. Based on the analyses carried out during this intervention, several origins of the managers' difficulties were highlighted, some of which were of a relatively general nature in relation to the managerial function, while others were more specifically linked to the organizational context of the facility. Following these analyses, an action plan was drawn up by a number of the facility's actors. But above and beyond said action plan, the results of these analyses led us to propose more general measures to improve working conditions for managers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since March 2023, occupational health nurses have been required to have a professional license, a master's degree or an inter-university diploma. They are required to take over 200 hours of theoretical courses, and to complete one or more internships equivalent to over 100 hours., (Copyright © 2024. Publié par Elsevier Masson SAS.)

The mental health of school professionals is at risk. By reducing the quality of workspaces, the pursuit of effectiveness, efficiency and economy would seem to be part of the problem. Within the framework of a research-intervention on occupational health, we introduced an activity clinic to address this problem. In this article, we present the work of a school committee responsible for workplace health and describe the processes mobilized during a collective interprofessional self-confrontation. The results show that the intervention improved the relationship between staff and the hierarchical superior, and mobilized the health committee around a project that enhanced individual and collective power to act. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Any intervention must deal with the question of its evaluation, which is always at least implicit: it is a case of establishing a judgement on an intervention, based on what is perceived to have happened, and what could have been done differently. From a scientific perspective, this judgement needs to be substantiated and constructed. First and foremost, this article proposes a theoretical examination, developing a framework with which to analyse the problems of evaluating interventions, based on an analysis of the international literature on the prevention of MSDs (work-related musculoskeletal disorders). According to this international literature, there is no evidence that ergonomic interventions are effective. The ergonomic interventions selected by the literature reviews do not correspond to the "complex" interventions that professionals in the field consider relevant, and that the evolution of etiological models nevertheless considers should be carried out. On the one hand this situation creates a gap between what the international literature is based on to establish the state of knowledge, and, on the other hand, the daily experience built by the actors of transformation projects. The experience and process of the intervention are therefore not objects of interest in this literature, even though they are essential to the success of prevention. The complexity of the interventions to be carried out for ambitious prevention presupposes a collective mobilisation which is difficult to build - and therefore of major interest - and which gives a central place to the question of relationships in the intervention. We explain this relational ontology and the orientations it suggests for evaluations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The term quality of life at work (QWL) first appeared in the 2000s, and in particular since December 2020, when working conditions were taken into account. QWL then became Quality of Life and Working Conditions (QWLWC). It therefore became an essential subject to promote, in which the occupational health nurse plays a crucial role. By working closely with employees, occupational health nurses play an active role in preventing occupational risks and promoting health and well-being., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Le travail, tel que le conçoit la démarche ergologique, est une mobilisation de soi. Le travail est donc à la fois subjectif et en même temps il permet à chacun de s’individualiser. Mais travailler c’est aussi faire avec les autres. Travailler en santé c’est réussir à faire avec ce que l’on est, ce que l’on a et faire avec ceux qui nous entourent. Lorsque l’on subit notre travail comme quelque chose qui s’impose à soi, sans trouver l’équilibre entre nos propres normes et celles qui proviennent de l’environnement physique et social dans lequel nous nous inscrivons, alors il y a un risque pour notre santé. La qualité de vie au travail relève nécessairement d’un compromis équilibré entre plusieurs logiques qu’il faudrait réussir à faire dialoguer dans des espaces dédiés, tels que les Groupes de Rencontres du Travail (GRT).

Cette thèse porte sur l’engagement et le désengagement au travail, qu’elle propose de conceptualiser comme des dynamiques singulières et parfois paradoxales de mobilisation de soi dans l’activité, liées au contexte organisationnel et institutionnel dans lequel elles se déploient, et pouvant varier en fonction des moments, des situations et des personnes.

Cette thèse porte sur l'engagement et le désengagement au travail, qu'elle propose de conceptualiser comme des dynamiques singulières et parfois paradoxales de mobilisation de soi dans l'activité, liées au contexte organisationnel et institutionnel dans lequel elles se déploient, et pouvant varier en fonction des moments, des situations et des personnes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bien qu'il ait fait l'objet de nombreuses études depuis les années 1970, il n'y a pas de définition consensuelle ni de critères diagnostiques clairs du burn-out. La conséquence en est souvent la non-reconnaissance du burn-out et de la souffrance des individus concernés. L'objectif de cette revue de la littérature est d'étudier si le burn-out devrait être considéré comme une catégorie diagnostique distincte. Malgré le fait que le burn-out soit un phénomène global, aucune revue récente n'a combiné les points de vue de différentes disciplines. Dans cette revue, nous avons recensé les arguments cliniques, psychologiques et biologiques de la reconnaissance du burn-out et nous les avons situés dans leurs contextes sociaux, politiques et économiques afin de dresser une image globale de la thématique. Les futures recherches gagneraient à mettre fin au manque de consensus quant à la définition du burn-out, ses caractéristiques cliniques et ses outils d'évaluation. Although it has largely been studied since the 1970s, it remains controversial to accurately define what the concept of burnout encompasses. Indeed, burnout is not consensually defined and, although some consider that it is a work-related illness, there is no clear diagnostic criteria. This problem is intensified by the fact that some studies present methodological limitations, thus impeding an appropriate characterization of burnout. As a consequence of this lack of agreement, burnout is not acknowledged as a work-related illness, which minimizes the pain of those individuals who are suffering from it. The present paper will review findings that can help to disentangle whether burnout should be considered as a medical diagnosis. Cultural differences concerning the consideration of burnout as a medical condition will be pointed out and the distinctiveness of burnout compared to depression, adjustment disorder or other stress related symptoms will be highlighted. Moreover, we will explain why considering that burnout belongs to broader diagnostic categories implies that the weight of employees' discomfort mainly relies on personal causes and therefore weakens the role of existing working conditions. This paper will also summarize clinical, psychological and biological evidences for and against the inclusion of burnout as a medical condition, before embedding them in a wider social, political and economic context. More specifically, we will explain why burnout is intimately related to the political and economic situation of a country: when society promotes cost-effectiveness, it increases stress and psychological pressure, which makes a burnout more likely to appear. Furthermore, if burnout is recognized as a work-related disease, the consequences for organizations will be that they will have to pay for additional health care charges. Finally, more effective prevention techniques could be developed, and more appropriate care could be provided to patients, but only if an agreement on diagnostic criteria was obtained and if reliable assessment tools were developed. As long as these issues are not addressed, treatments specifically targeting burnout symptoms will be further delayed although it is a serious clinical condition associated with physical and psychological symptoms impairing patients' quality of life. In conclusion, we suggest that burnout should be considered as a medical condition despite the economic and political impediments. Nevertheless, up to now, several methodological limitations preclude to reliably establish a pathological cut-off and to delineate burnout from other mental illnesses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Tout au long de leur carrière professionnelle, les travailleurs sont susceptibles d'être exposés simultanément à de multiples facteurs de risque sanitaires. Dans le cadre du Plan santé au travail (PST) 2016-2020, une action spécifique visait l'amélioration de la prise en compte de la polyexposition, un défi majeur pour l'ensemble des acteurs de la sécurité sanitaire et de la prévention. À ce titre, un premier état des lieux a recensé les principales actions conduites sur la question de la polyexposition au niveau institutionnel en France et dans d'autres pays en Europe et en Amérique du Nord. Une seconde phase d'analyse, fondée sur l'exploitation des résultats de l'enquête Sumer 2016-2017 (Surveillance médicale des expositions des salariés aux risques professionnels), a permis l'identification de profils homogènes de travailleurs polyexposés. Ces profils objectivent des situations de polyexpositions qui concernent la quasi-totalité des salariés français. Throughout their professional careers, workers can potentially be exposed to multiple health risk factors simultaneously. As part of the French 2016-2020 National Occupational Health Plan, specific initiatives aimed to improve consideration of multiple exposures and how to avoid them, a major challenge in the field of occupational health, safety, and prevention. To this end, an initial review listed the measures taken to address the question of multiple exposures at institutional level in France and in other countries in Europe and North America. A subsequent analysis phase, based on the exploitation of the 2017 Sumer survey results (Medical surveillance of employees' exposure to occupational risks), identified a range of homogeneous profiles of workers with multiple exposures into which almost all French employees fall. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes, in a situated perspective, the antecedent norms that affect the work of platform drivers and food delivery couriers who work using on-demand apps, in order to discuss the implications of these current forms of control and algorithmic management of work. It also seeks to identify elements of collective action that refer to the mobilization and construction of reserves of alternatives. From the ergological perspective, the research method was based on Meetings about the Work, preceded by documentary analysis, questionnaires, and interviews. The results point to demands and challenges imposed by this management method, as well as to the renormatizations carried out in the construction of reserves of alternatives, and, among them, the establishment of sociability networks. It also discusses how the absence of state regulation, as well as the sophisticated and complex technology incorporated by the platform companies can contribute to deepening the process of social insecurity and exploitation of workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Self-denial and sense of duty are fundamental ethical principles in health care. Since the outbreak of health crisis, healthcare workers have been the first bulwark against the spread of coronavirus, and therefore, the occupational category at higher risk of contamination. In this regard, in a statement dated 23 March 2020, the World Health Organization published a guidance regarding the management of the disease caused by Covid-19 in health workers, but also in workers employed in all sectors exposed to the risk of contamination. In Morocco, the Ministry of Health published on April 6, on its official website, a condolence message to the families of the first two doctors died following contraction of coronavirus, while specifying that coronavirus infection was not due to the exercise of their professional functions. The Minister of Labor and Professional Integration recently appointed an internal committee to undertake a reflection on this issue. At present, given Morocco’s law, what are the chances to categorize coronavirus as an occupational disease? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La qualité de l'action en santé au travail nécessite de s'intéresser à sa dynamique de développement et cela peut passer par un travail d'analyse de l'activité de l'intervenant, de ce qu'il parvient à opérer dans son action et les obstacles qu'il rencontre. Cet article se centre sur l'analyse du processus d'intervention en santé au travail que nous tentons d'éclairer grâce à l'étude de cas. À partir d'une approche diachronique et par la méthode de l'étude de cas, nous cherchons à saisir les obstacles auxquels l'intervenant se confronte, les ajustements qu'il accomplit pour mettre au jour, à partir de cette activité réflexive, des processus de développement de l'action en santé au travail. Le cas d'intervention analysé est celui d'un journal. Les résultats porteront à discuter le sens des ajustements opérés par l'intervenant dans la mise en œuvre de l'intervention et de ce qui lui résiste. Les difficultés rencontrées ont une fonction de révélateur que l'évaluation des effets d'une intervention peut prendre en compte. Elles instruisent les voies possibles du développement de l'action en santé au travail. The quality of action in occupational health requires attention to its dynamic, for example analysing the activity of the intervenant consultant: what he manages to do in his activity and the obstacles he encounters. This article proposes to feed the knowledge on the intervention from a qualitative approach and centered on the intervention process. Using the case study, the article shows the real of the intervention, its obstacles and the adjustments it imposes. The case studied is in a journal. This intervention process shows the effects of variation caused by lack of accession and support from management and the trade unions, the difficulty of passing from knowledge to action. The difficulties have a function of revelation which the evaluation of the effects of an intervention can take into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La qualité du vivre et travailler ensemble en milieu scolaire est un enjeu éducatif et de santé au travail pour tous les acteurs et actrices de l’école. Cette recherche menée en France avait pour but de déterminer l’influence du climat scolaire sur la satisfaction professionnelle. Les données ont été recueillis auprès de 50 enseignant·e·s volontaires travaillant dans un collège et un lycée régional. Les résultats mettent en évidence l’impact du climat de cohérence et d’appartenance à une communauté scolaire sur les composantes intrinsèques et extrinsèques de la satisfaction professionnelle. Plusieurs autres facteurs (âge, sexe, expérience, type d’établissement) déterminent un profil d’enseignant·e·s plutôt insatisfait·e·s. Pour cet établissement, des préconisations sont faites sur la gouvernance du chef d’établissement dans une visée de santé au travail.

Les politiques relatives à l'emploi des personnes handicapées en France reposent sur différents mécanismes, tels que les quotas d'emploi, la non-discrimination ou le reclassement professionnel, qui renvoient à des définitions contradictoires du handicap et de la participation au marché du travail. À partir de deux enquêtes sociologiques qualitatives originales menées par entretiens semi-directifs, cet article examine comment les référent.es handicap s'emparent, ou ne s'emparent pas, des différents outils juridiques disponibles pour décliner et animer concrètement les politiques d'emploi des personnes handicapées au sein des organisations de travail du secteur public. Malgré la forte persistance d'une approche individuelle, médicale et défective du handicap dans l'emploi, nous montrons que les référent.es handicap s'efforcent de déployer une politique plus ambitieuse, proactive et systémique, sensible à la dimension environnementale du handicap et à la prévention du handicap au travail, sans pour autant intégrer dans leurs pratiques le droit antidiscriminatoire en termes d'égalité et d'inclusion. Different policies relating to the employment of disabled people coexist in France. They rely on various mechanisms, such as quotas, non-discrimination, professional rehabilitation that corresponds to concurrent, or even antagonist, definitions of disability and participation in the labor market. Based on two original qualitative sociological surveys conducted by semi-structured interviews, this article explores how disability officers grasp, or do not grasp, the different legal tools available to implement employment policies for people with disabilities in public sector work organizations. Despite the strong persistence of an individual, medical, and defective approach to disability in employment, we show that disability officers strive to build a more ambitious, proactive, and systemic policy. They are sensitive to the environmental dimension of disability and to the prevention of disability at work, but do not make reference to the antidiscrimination law and its injunction to pursue equality and inclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: À partir d'une enquête sociologique qualitative, cet article se propose de rendre compte de la construction historique des conflits de perspectives disciplinaires sur la question des liens entre pesticides et santé des travailleurs agricoles. Il montre comment la toxicologie, en produisant des données de dangers et d'exposition à l'échelle « microscopique » des substances actives, a structuré depuis trois quarts de siècle les modalités de l'évaluation des risques préalables à la mise sur le marché des pesticides. En objectivant, pour chaque pesticide, une dose acceptable d'exposition professionnelle et les moyens de ne pas la dépasser – notamment par l'intermédiaire du port de vêtements de protection et de mesures d'hygiène – cette source de connaissances a légitimé la notion d'usage contrôlé de ces produits. L'article montre également comment l'accumulation de données épidémiologiques mettant en évidence la surincidence de certaines pathologies chroniques cancéreuses et neurodégénératives parmi la main-d'œuvre agricole exposée a questionné, depuis la fin du siècle dernier, la fiabilité de l'évaluation des risques. Produisant, pour l'essentiel, des données « macroscopiques » sur l'effet de l'exposition des agriculteurs aux pesticides en général, les études épidémiologiques restent cependant difficiles à intégrer dans des instruments d'action publique qui font de l'autorisation de mise sur le marché leur principal levier de gestion du risque. L'article souligne que la mesure de l'exposition professionnelle aux pesticides constitue le cœur des conflits politiques et épistémiques que génère ce contraste entre les visions microscopiques et macroscopiques des effets des pesticides sur la santé de la main-d'œuvre travaillant en agriculture. This article, based on a qualitative sociological survey, aims to describe the historical construction of the conflicting disciplinary perspectives on the links between pesticides and occupational health in agriculture. It shows how toxicology, by producing hazard and exposure data at the microscopic scale of active substances, has structured the procedures for the pre-market risk assessment of pesticides since World War II. By identifying, for each pesticide, an acceptable dose of occupational exposure and the means of not exceeding it — in particular through the use of protective clothing and hygiene measures — this source of knowledge has legitimized the notion of safe use of these products. The article also shows how the collection of epidemiologic data highlighting the excess incidence of some chronic cancers and neurodegenerative diseases among the exposed agricultural workforce has raised questions about the reliability of risk assessment procedures since the end of the last century. However, since most epidemiologic studies produce macroscopic data on the effect of farmers' exposure to pesticides in general, they remain difficult to integrate into the public policy instruments that make marketing authorisations their main risk management tool. The article emphasizes that the measurement of occupational exposure to pesticides is at the heart of the political and epistemic conflicts generated by this contrast between microscopic and macroscopic views of the effects of pesticides on the health of the agricultural workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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