Beyond "Chilling Effects": Latinx and Asian Immigrants' Experiences with Enforcement and Barriers to Health Care (Medical Care)
Published Date: May 31, 2016

​The Sonoma County Farmworker Health Survey (FHS) was conducted to describe the health and well-being of adult farmworkers in Sonoma County, California, and to identify preventable health disparities for this population. Authors used venue-based and convenience sampling to survey 293 farmworkers aged 18 years or older. The questions included self-rated general health, diabetes and hypertension, and body mass index. To identify disparities between surveyed farmworkers and Sonoma County residents overall, authors developed age-adjusted prevalence estimates using indirect standardization to the adult (≥18 years) Sonoma County sample from the California Health Interview Survey for 2011–2012.

Results showed farmworkers were mostly male (91%) and Latino or Hispanic (95%), and 54% had an educational attainment of 8th grade or less. Most (81%) farmworkers reported their families earned less than $30,000 in 2012. After adjusting for age, 30% of farmworkers had US-based health insurance as compared with the 86% of Sonoma County adults in 2011–2012, and 15% of farmworkers reported ever being diagnosed with diabetes after adjusting for age as compared with 5% of Sonoma County adults. After adjusting for age, 44% of farmworkers reported poor or fair health in general as compared with 13% of Sonoma County adults.​



Publication Authors:
  • Kristin L. Moore
  • et al
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