The California Endowment CEO Task Force on Agricultural Worker Health and the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute. The bounty of food: the poverty of health.Claremont, CA: Tomás Rivera Policy Institute; 2001.
This is the final report of The California Endowment's CEO Task Force on Agricultural Worker Health, which was created to advise The California Endowment on future grant-making strategies to address the needs of the state's 1 million migrant and seasonal workers. The report makes several grant-making recommendations to The California Endowment (e.g., support efforts to increase points of access to comprehensive health, dental, and mental health care where farmworkers and their families work, and to provide a permanent funding source to improve access to affordable housing and improve housing conditions).
It also makes numerous public policy recommendations to address farmworker health. A few examples include increasing farmworker points of access to public programs; instituting binational approaches with appropriate Mexican organizations and officials to advance the health of Mexican farmworkers and their families; increasing long-term funding to the farmworker housing endowment; eliminating barriers to improving farmworker housing and living conditions by changing code enforcement law, planning and zoning laws, etc.; and formulating policies and programs to improve enforcement of occupational health and safety laws in agriculture.
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