Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

Project Overview

This project - supported by the NIOSH Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education - includes interviews, focus groups, and observations with shrimp fishermen in Texas to understand the barriers to preventing slips, trips, and falls.

Community-led interventions that address structural and social determinants of health are lacking among im/migrant workers, especially seafood workers. This lack of medical attention is especially alarming given their high rate of injury and death. Through partnerships with Gulf Coast communities, researchers are studying how mobile street clinics can decrease health disparities and increase health equity among fishermen, dock workers, and their families. Our research methodology is a mixed-methods participatory approach, including community based participatory research (CBPR), surveys, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and photovoice.