COVID-19 pandemic burden on Farmworkers in the United States: A Systematic Review
Year Developed: 2024
Resource Type: Publication.Primary Audience: Enabling Staff
Outreach Staff
Secondary Audience: Administrative Staff
PCAs
Language(s): English
Developed by: National Center for Farmworker Health (See other resources developed by this organization).
Resource Summary: Farmworker communities have an increased risk of COVID-19. Our objective is to inform farmworker health stakeholders about the COVID-19 burden among farmworker communities. We conducted a structured literature search to review articles with data about their experiences.
Resource Details: Farmworker communities have an increased risk of COVID-19. Our objective is to inform farmworker health stakeholders about the COVID-19 burden among farmworker communities. We conducted a structured literature search to review articles with data about their experiences. Analysis was conducted in 2022 and 2023. Thirty-three articles were synthesized into themes of burden on social determinants of health, risk and preventative practices, mental health, infection rates and testing, vaccination coverage, and perceptions about the vaccine. These studies cross the United States where farmworker communities are known to be concentrated, such as California, Oregon, Washington, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Minnesota, Texas, Mississippi, and Wisconsin and were published in between January 2020 and June 2022. Many of these studies have documented that COVID-19 transmission risk factors are common among farmworkers and that they have experienced disproportionately high infection rates. Individual findings should not be compared with each other; instead, these studies should provide readers with an understanding of the range of the burden of COVID-19 on different farmworker populations in U.S.
Resource Topic: Special and Vulnerable Populations
Keywords: Agricultural Workers, Infectious Diseases, Mental Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Outreach, Research.This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $6,625,000 with 0 percentage financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.