Ray Marshall Center’s Dr. Heath Prince and Thomas Boswell presented findings from their study titled “Prevention, Resilience, Efficiency, and Protection for workers in industrial agriculture in a changing climate (PREP): Baseline results from a household panel survey of the socioeconomic conditions experienced by agricultural workers in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua” at the Fourth International Workshop on Chronic Kidney Disease sponsored by Consortium for the Epidemic of Nephropathy in Central America and Mexico (CENCAM) and held February 13th-16th in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. The workshop was developed as a collaboration between CENCAM, the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers of Health of Central America and the Dominican Republic (SE-COMISCA), the Latin American Society for Nephrology and Hypertension (SLANH), and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
Their poster presentation, seen here, summarizes the key research strategies and results from their study, the purpose being to examine the socieoconomic outcomes associated with chronic kidney disease not related to well-known risk factors (CKDnt) in four communities in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua that are home to a substantial number of sugarcane workers. Despite strong similarities in terms of demographic characteristics, and despite residing in the same communities with similar access to the available resources, households experiencing CKDnt exhibit distinct and statistically significant differences in important socioeconomic outcomes when compared to non-CKDnt households. Contributing to the study were Jason Glaser (La Isla Network), Catharina Wesseling (Karolinska Institute, Sweden), Ashweeta Patnaik (RMC), and William Martinez-Cuadra (La Isla Network).