TY - JOUR
T1 - Exposures at day labor corners
T2 - using existing georeferenced data to describe features of urban environments
AU - Fernández-Esquer, Maria Eugenia
AU - Hughes, Amy E.
AU - Pruitt, Sandi L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This article represents the joint collaboration and equal efforts of the three authors. This work was supported by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (Grant No. 5R24MD007975-02 ). Dr. Hughes was funded through a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas School of Public Health Cancer Education and Career Development Program, National Cancer Institute / NIH (Grant No. R25 CA57712 ). The funding sources did not have a role in any aspect of the preparation or publication of this article.
Funding Information:
This article represents the joint collaboration and equal efforts of the three authors. This work was supported by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (Grant No. 5R24MD007975-02). Dr. Hughes was funded through a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas School of Public Health Cancer Education and Career Development Program, National Cancer Institute/NIH (Grant No. R25 CA57712). The funding sources did not have a role in any aspect of the preparation or publication of this article. This content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities or the National Institutes of Health.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - Purpose: Latino day laborers are male immigrants from mainly Mexico and Central America who congregate at corners, that is, informal hiring sites, to solicit short-term employment. Studies describing the occupational environment of Latino day laborers traditionally measure jobsite exposures, not corner exposures. We sought to elucidate exposures at corners by describing their demographic, socioeconomic, occupational, business, built, and physical environmental characteristics and by comparing corner characteristics with other locations in a large urban county in Texas. Methods: We used multiple publicly available data sets from the U.S. Census, local tax authority, Google's Nearby Places Application Programming Interface, and Environmental Protection Agency at fine spatial scale to measure 34 characteristics of corners with matched comparison locations. Results: Corners were located close to highways, high-traffic intersections, hardware and moving stores, and gas stations. Corners were in neighborhoods with large foreign-born and Latino populations, high rates of limited English proficiency, and high construction-sector employment. Conclusions: Publicly available data sources describe demographic, socioeconomic, occupational, business, built, and physical environment characteristics of urban environments at fine spatial scale. Using these data, we identified unique corner-based exposures experienced by day laborers. Future research is needed to understand how corner environments may influence health for this uniquely vulnerable population.
AB - Purpose: Latino day laborers are male immigrants from mainly Mexico and Central America who congregate at corners, that is, informal hiring sites, to solicit short-term employment. Studies describing the occupational environment of Latino day laborers traditionally measure jobsite exposures, not corner exposures. We sought to elucidate exposures at corners by describing their demographic, socioeconomic, occupational, business, built, and physical environmental characteristics and by comparing corner characteristics with other locations in a large urban county in Texas. Methods: We used multiple publicly available data sets from the U.S. Census, local tax authority, Google's Nearby Places Application Programming Interface, and Environmental Protection Agency at fine spatial scale to measure 34 characteristics of corners with matched comparison locations. Results: Corners were located close to highways, high-traffic intersections, hardware and moving stores, and gas stations. Corners were in neighborhoods with large foreign-born and Latino populations, high rates of limited English proficiency, and high construction-sector employment. Conclusions: Publicly available data sources describe demographic, socioeconomic, occupational, business, built, and physical environment characteristics of urban environments at fine spatial scale. Using these data, we identified unique corner-based exposures experienced by day laborers. Future research is needed to understand how corner environments may influence health for this uniquely vulnerable population.
KW - Day laborers
KW - Latino health
KW - Neighborhood exposures
KW - Occupational exposures
KW - Urban context
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U2 - 10.1016/j.annepidem.2019.09.003
DO - 10.1016/j.annepidem.2019.09.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 31629605
AN - SCOPUS:85074062240
SN - 1047-2797
VL - 39
SP - 54
EP - 62
JO - Annals of Epidemiology
JF - Annals of Epidemiology
ER -