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Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and Director of the Center for Worker Health, Wake Forest School of Medicine. He is a cultural anthropologist and public health scientist with a research program focused on improving health in rural and minority communities. He collaborates in a program of community-based participatory research with immigrant farmworkers, poultry processing workers, and construction workers focused on occupational and environmental health and justice. He also collaborates on research focused on the health self-management and health services utilization of rural older adults.

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Original Research 13 February 2015

Perceptions of housing conditions among migrant farmworkers and their families: implications for health, safety and social policy

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