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Nord, David Paul – 1981
Library historians and historians of literacy have been more creative than journalism historians in using individual-level historical data such as deeds, wills, depositions, surveys, and census figures to study reading behaviors of the past. For example, the series of family cost of living surveys conducted in the United States by state and…
Descriptors: Audiences, Employment Statistics, Laborers, Media Research
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Perry, Melissa J. – Journal of Rural Health, 2003
A review of a medical database examined health risks to children living and working on farms. Numbers of at-risk children and the laws governing child farm work are discussed. Farm youth experienced exposures to potentially harmful chemicals and disproportionately high rates of work-related fatalities. Long-term health effects of chemical exposure…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Child Health, Child Labor
Ruducha, Jenny – 1994
This report examines differences in measures of health status and health services utilization among 386 migrant children (ages 6 months through 5 years) from 253 households. Data were collected from Delmarva Rural Ministries (a migrant health center than maintains three satellite sites serving a 10-county area in Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland),…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Blacks, Child Health, Cultural Influences