Geoffrey M Calvert

Biographic Data

ID6078344
NAMEGeoffrey M Calvert
GIVEN NAMESGeoffrey M
FAMILY NAMECalvert
SIGNATURECALVERT G M
AFFILIATIONSCenters for Disease Control and Prevention
ORCID0000-0003-3968-8458
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
H-INDEX1

  • Workplace Assaults on Nursing Assistants in US Nursing Homes

    Sangwoo Tak, Marie Haring Sweeney et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2010Cited by: 1References: 18

    Objectives. We examined risk factors for injuries to nursing assistants from assaults by nursing home residents at both the individual and the organizational level. Methods. We analyzed data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey that were linked to facility information from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey by use of multilevel modeling that accounted for the complex survey design effect. Results. Thirty-four percent of nursing assi…

  • Acute Pesticide-Related Illnesses Among Working Youths, 1988–1999

    Geoffrey M Calvert, Louise N Mehler et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2003Cited by: 1References: 6

    Objectives. The goal of this study was to describe acute occupational pesticide-related illnesses among youths and to provide prevention recommendations. Methods. Survey data from 8 states and from poison control center data were analyzed. Illness incidence rates and incidence rate ratios were calculated. Results. A total of 531 youths were identified with acute occupational pesticide-related illnesses. Insecticides were responsible for most of t…

  • Surveillance of Pesticide-Related Illness and Injury in Humans

    Open AccessGeoffrey M Calvert, Wayne T Sanderson et al.CHAPTERHandbook of Pesticide Toxicology…2001

  • Health effects associated with sulfuryl fluoride and methyl bromide exposure among structural fumigation workers

    Geoffrey M Calvert, Charles Mueller et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1998References: 1

    OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the health effects associated with occupational exposure to methyl bromide and sulfuryl fluoride among structural fumigation workers. METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 123 structural fumigation workers and 120 referents in south Florida was conducted. Nerve conduction, vibration, neurobehavioral, visual, olfactory, and renal function testing was included. RESULTS: The median lifetime duration of methyl bromide an…

  • Developing the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health's Cancer Control Demonstration Projects for Farm Populations

    Open AccessL Barbara Connally, Paul A Schulte et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1996

    Although farmers experience lower overall cancer rates than the U.S. population, they are at increased risk for cancers of certain sites, such as brain, stomach, lymphatic and hematopoietic, lip, prostate, and skin. Little research has been done to determine the extent to which farmers and their families use cancer control services or how their utilization behaviors and cancer survival rates compare to those of nonfarmers in the United States. In…

  • Teens Teach Skin Cancer Prevention

    Open AccessDouglas I Reding, Douglas J Reding et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health1996

    Cumulative sun exposure has been linked to about 95 percent of all skin cancers. Farmers and their families, by nature of their occupations, are exposed to an abundance of sun over a long period of time and, therefore, are at an increased risk for skin cancer. Because education is known to be a primary means of health, Future Farmers of America (FFA) peer facilitators (teen educators) provided third graders in rural communities sun protection edu…