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Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study

BACKGROUND: Nine migrant agricultural workers died in Ontario, Canada, between January 2020 and June 2021. METHODS: To better understand the factors that contributed to the deaths of these migrant agricultural workers, we used a modified qualitative descriptive approach. A research team of clinical...

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Autores principales: Caxaj, Susana, Tran, Maxwell, Mayell, Stephanie, Tew, Michelle, McLaughlin, Janet, Rawal, Shail, Vosko, Leah F., Cole, Donald
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35842656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01692-7
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author Caxaj, Susana
Tran, Maxwell
Mayell, Stephanie
Tew, Michelle
McLaughlin, Janet
Rawal, Shail
Vosko, Leah F.
Cole, Donald
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description BACKGROUND: Nine migrant agricultural workers died in Ontario, Canada, between January 2020 and June 2021. METHODS: To better understand the factors that contributed to the deaths of these migrant agricultural workers, we used a modified qualitative descriptive approach. A research team of clinical and academic experts reviewed coroner files of the nine deceased workers and undertook an accompanying media scan. A minimum of two reviewers read each file using a standardized data extraction tool. RESULTS: We identified four domains of risk, each of which encompassed various factors that likely exacerbated the risk of poor health outcomes: (1) recruitment and travel risks; (2) missed steps and substandard conditions of healthcare monitoring, quarantine, and isolation; (3) barriers to accessing healthcare; and (4) missing information and broader issues of concern. CONCLUSION: Migrant agricultural workers have been disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Greater attention to the unique needs of this population is required to avoid further preventable deaths.
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spelling pubmed-92877082022-07-17 Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study Caxaj, Susana Tran, Maxwell Mayell, Stephanie Tew, Michelle McLaughlin, Janet Rawal, Shail Vosko, Leah F. Cole, Donald Int J Equity Health Research BACKGROUND: Nine migrant agricultural workers died in Ontario, Canada, between January 2020 and June 2021. METHODS: To better understand the factors that contributed to the deaths of these migrant agricultural workers, we used a modified qualitative descriptive approach. A research team of clinical and academic experts reviewed coroner files of the nine deceased workers and undertook an accompanying media scan. A minimum of two reviewers read each file using a standardized data extraction tool. RESULTS: We identified four domains of risk, each of which encompassed various factors that likely exacerbated the risk of poor health outcomes: (1) recruitment and travel risks; (2) missed steps and substandard conditions of healthcare monitoring, quarantine, and isolation; (3) barriers to accessing healthcare; and (4) missing information and broader issues of concern. CONCLUSION: Migrant agricultural workers have been disproportionately harmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Greater attention to the unique needs of this population is required to avoid further preventable deaths. BioMed Central 2022-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9287708/ /pubmed/35842656 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01692-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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McLaughlin, Janet
Rawal, Shail
Vosko, Leah F.
Cole, Donald
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title_short Migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in Ontario from January 2020 to June 2021: a qualitative descriptive study
title_sort migrant agricultural workers’ deaths in ontario from january 2020 to june 2021: a qualitative descriptive study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9287708/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35842656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-022-01692-7
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