Thomas A Arcury
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas A Arcury |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas A |
| FAMILY NAME | Arcury |
| SIGNATURE | ARCURY T A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Family and Community Medicine, Wake Forest University School of Medicine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Training to reduce LGBTQ-related bias among medical, nursing, and dental students and providers
Unreliable item or inconsistent person? A study of variation in health beliefs and belief-anchors to biomedical models
The reliability of an item designed to measure health belief is often confounded with response consistency at the person level. The study applied contemporary measurement methods to an inventory of common sense beliefs about diabetes and used a sample of N = 563 adults with diabetes to test the hypothesis that individuals whose beliefs are congruent with a biomedical model are more consistent in their responses. Item-level analysis revealed that …
Empowering Latino Youth Farmworkers as Youth Health Educators for Occupational Heat-Related Illness Safety Education in Eastern North Carolina
When we go into the fields, it's really hot because the tobacco plants are very tall. It's difficult to breathe. We have to drink water after we finish one row of tobacco or after an hour or two depending on how high the tobacco plants are. I know I have to rest when my head starts to hurt. I drink a lot of water but, when I do, my stomach hurts, and sometimes I get nauseated. I sweat a lot. Today, I only lasted a few hours in the heat. You can't…
Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States
The work-family challenge and mental health
The work–family literature is dominated by studies of white middle-class workers. In this study, we sought to expand this focus by examining work–family issues from the perspective of Mexicans who have immigrated to the USA within the past five years. Using data from qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 22) and quantitative structured interviews (N = 150), we documented the work–family experiences associated with immigration, and we examined the …
A Culturally Appropriate Farmworker Pesticide Safety Program
Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations in the US. Anyone who works on a farm is at risk for a variety of occupational injuries and illnesses. Hired farmworkers are often at a disadvantage for preventing injury and illness because they lack control in the workplace. Over the past few decades, the number and percentage of US farmworkers who are immigrants, mainly from Mexico and the Latin American countries, has increased dramatically. Be…
Applied Anthropology in Environmental Education
The environment and environmental problems have been prominent social, political, and public policy issues for more than three decades. The list of significant environmental concerns stretches from the effects of pesticides such as DDT, through nuclear waste and water and air pollution, to ozone depletion and acid rain
The work-family challenge and mental health
The work–family literature is dominated by studies of white middle-class workers. In this study, we sought to expand this focus by examining work–family issues from the perspective of Mexicans who have immigrated to the USA within the past five years. Using data from qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 22) and quantitative structured interviews (N = 150), we documented the work–family experiences associated with immigration, and we examined the …
Applied Anthropology in Environmental Education
The environment and environmental problems have been prominent social, political, and public policy issues for more than three decades. The list of significant environmental concerns stretches from the effects of pesticides such as DDT, through nuclear waste and water and air pollution, to ozone depletion and acid rain
A Culturally Appropriate Farmworker Pesticide Safety Program
Farming is one of the most hazardous occupations in the US. Anyone who works on a farm is at risk for a variety of occupational injuries and illnesses. Hired farmworkers are often at a disadvantage for preventing injury and illness because they lack control in the workplace. Over the past few decades, the number and percentage of US farmworkers who are immigrants, mainly from Mexico and the Latin American countries, has increased dramatically. Be…
The work-family challenge and mental health
The work–family literature is dominated by studies of white middle-class workers. In this study, we sought to expand this focus by examining work–family issues from the perspective of Mexicans who have immigrated to the USA within the past five years. Using data from qualitative in-depth interviews (N = 22) and quantitative structured interviews (N = 150), we documented the work–family experiences associated with immigration, and we examined the …
Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States
Empowering Latino Youth Farmworkers as Youth Health Educators for Occupational Heat-Related Illness Safety Education in Eastern North Carolina
When we go into the fields, it's really hot because the tobacco plants are very tall. It's difficult to breathe. We have to drink water after we finish one row of tobacco or after an hour or two depending on how high the tobacco plants are. I know I have to rest when my head starts to hurt. I drink a lot of water but, when I do, my stomach hurts, and sometimes I get nauseated. I sweat a lot. Today, I only lasted a few hours in the heat. You can't…
Unreliable item or inconsistent person? A study of variation in health beliefs and belief-anchors to biomedical models
The reliability of an item designed to measure health belief is often confounded with response consistency at the person level. The study applied contemporary measurement methods to an inventory of common sense beliefs about diabetes and used a sample of N = 563 adults with diabetes to test the hypothesis that individuals whose beliefs are congruent with a biomedical model are more consistent in their responses. Item-level analysis revealed that …
Training to reduce LGBTQ-related bias among medical, nursing, and dental students and providers
Engineering (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Agriculture and Farm Safety (2 works) · Hazardous waste (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Meteorology (2 works)