Thomas Arcury, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of Research
(336) 716-9438
tarcury@wfubmc.edu
Education: | 1975 | B.A., Sociology Duquesne University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1978 | M.A., Anthropology University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky | 1983 | Ph.D., Anthropology University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky | 1994-1996: | NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow, Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | | Research Interests | Thomas A. Arcury, Ph.D., is a medical anthropologist and health educator with broad research experience in the areas of rural and minority health, rural and minority aging, environmental and occupational health, and complementary and alternative medicine. He has particular expertise in qualitative research methods, as well as survey research methods. | | Recent Publications | Arcury TA, Marín A, Snively BM, Hernández-Pelletier M, Quandt SA. Reducing Farmworker Residential Pesticide Exposure: Evaluation of a Lay Health Advisor Intervention. Health Promotion Practice in press. | Arcury TA, Grzywacz JG, Barr DB, Tapia J, Chen H, Quandt SA. Pesticide urinary metabolite levels of children in eastern North Carolina farmworker households. Environmental Health Perspectives in press. | Arcury TA, Quandt SA. Health and Social Impacts of Tobacco Production. Journal of Agromedicine in press. | Arcury TA, Stafford JM, Bell RA, Smith SL, Snively BM, Quandt SA. The Association of Health and Functional Status with Private and Public Religious Activity among Rural, Multi-Ethnic Older Adults with Diabetes. Journal of Rural Health in press. | Arcury TA, Quandt SA. Delivery of Health Services to Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers. Annual Review of Public Health 28:345-363, 2007. | Arcury TA, Grzywacz JG, Bell RA, Neiberg RH, Lang W, Quandt SA. Herbal Remedy Use as Health Self-Management among Older Adults. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 62B:S142-S149, 2007. | Arcury TA, Vallejos QM, Feldman SR, Quandt SA. Treating Skin Disease: Self-management Behaviors of Latino Farmworkers. Journal of Agromedicine 11:27-35, 2006. | Arcury TA, Grzywacz JG, Davis SW, Barr DB, Quandt SA. Organophosphorus Pesticide Urinary Metabolite Levels of Children in Farmworker Households in Eastern North Carolina. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 49:751-760, 2006. | Arcury TA, Bell TA, Snively BM. Smith SL, Skelly AH, Wetmore LK, Quandt SA. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use as Health Self-Management: Rural Older Adults with Diabetes. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 61B:S62-S70, 2006. | Arcury TA, Quandt SA, Barr DB, Hoppin JA, McCauley L, Grzywacz JG, Robson MG. Farmworker Exposure to Pesticides: Methodological Issues for the Collection of Comparable Data. Environmental Health Perspectives 114:923-928, 2006. | Arcury TA, Snively BM, Bell RA, Smith SL, Stafford J, Wetmore LK, Quandt SA. Physical Activity among Rural Older Adults with Diabetes. Journal of Rural Health 22:164-168, 2006. | Arcury TA, Suerken CK, Grzywacz JG, Bell RA, Lang W, Quandt SA. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use among Older Adults: Ethnic Variation. Ethnicity & Disease 16:723-731, 2006. | Arcury TA, Vallejos QM, Marín AJ, Feldman SR, Smith G, Quandt SA. Latino Farmworker Perceptions of the Risk Factors for Occupational Skin Disease. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 49:434-442, 2006. |
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