Unique agricultural safety and health issues of migrant and immigrant children.

abstract：:Silo-filler's disease, a life-threatening condition from exposure to silage gas in recently filled silos, has been known for over 5 decades now. However, farm workers remain exposed to this preventable condition. We describe the index presentations and subsequent changes among 19 patients managed within our health sys...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Amaza IP,Kreidy MP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of field-based biomonitoring of heat-related illness (HRI) phenomena in Florida farmworkers. The authors determined feasibility through participant interviews regarding acceptability, data capture, recruitment and retention, and observed barriers an...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Mac VV,Tovar-Aguilar JA,Flocks J,Economos E,Hertzberg VS,McCauley LA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children are the vulnerable group in the agricultural community due to their early exposure to pesticides through the dynamic interplay between genetic predisposition, environment, and host-related factors. This study aims to identify the possible association between the depression in blood cholinesterase level and ge...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： How V,Hashim Z,Ismail P,Md Said S,Omar D,Bahri Mohd Tamrin S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural Extension professionals play a critical role in outreach and translation of research to practice. Extension has not only been an audience for Agricultural Safety and Health Center work, but also an essential partner in promoting evidence-based farm health and safety in communities. This commentary stems f...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Sampson S,Mazur J,Israel G,Galindo S,Ward C

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this community-based study was to test effectiveness of a peer-education safety education program that included student-produced videos and photovoice, nested in a 7-week summer Migrant Education Program. The second aim was to evaluate psychometrics of an adapted safety survey from Westaby and Lee used ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Kilanowski JF

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a medical student completing a required rural community medicine clerkship, I discovered my home community's concern for mental health of farmers. A local economic downturn affects everyone, but especially the farmers. One farmer had recently committed suicide. Leaning heavily on work presented at a Nebraska summit...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Tabereaux PB,Wheat JR

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:This longitudinal study measured the glyphosate and paraquat concentrations found in maternal and umbilical cord serum in 82 pregnant women who gave birth in three provinces of Thailand. METHODS:Through questionnaires and biological samples collected at childbirth, factors such as personal characteristics, ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Kongtip P,Nankongnab N,Phupancharoensuk R,Palarach C,Sujirarat D,Sangprasert S,Sermsuk M,Sawattrakool N,Woskie SR

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livestock workers are involved in a variety of tasks, such as caring for animals, maintaining the breeding facilities, cleaning, and manure handling, and are exposed to health and safety risks. Hydrogen sulfide is considered the most toxic by-product of the manure handling process at livestock facilities. Except for s...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Park J,Kang T,Jin S,Heo Y,Kim K,Lee K,Tsai P,Yoon C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agromedicine developments in Alabama rest heavily on the interest and support of the farm community. Participatory approaches have been advocated in order to impact the safety and health of farms. The University of Alabama Agromedicine Research Team, working closely with and guided by farmers, places emphasis on ident...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Guin SM,Wheat JR,Allinder RS,Fanucchi GJ,Wiggins OS,Johnson GJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly 750,000 youth work on farms across the United States. The U.S. Department of Labor's (U.S. DOL) Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Hazardous Occupations Orders for Agriculture (HOOA) applies to approximately 37% of these youth. The HOOA regulations had not been updated since their inception in the late 1960s and t...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Murphy DJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Despite international findings that farmers have better health outcomes than other occupation groups, Irish farmers are found to be a high-risk group for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Early detection of CVD through preventive health measurements, such as screening of high-risk groups, can contribute to a red...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： van Doorn D,Richardson N,Osborne A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data have shown that agriculture, forestry, and fishing as an occupational group have the third highest rate of work-related roadway crashes. Agriculture-related crashes have been explored in the Midwest and South; however, we know little about agricultur...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Scott E,Hirabayashi L,Jones N,Krupa N,Jenkins P

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machinery entanglements are a leading cause of hospitalized injury on Canadian farms. This study evaluates the role farm tasks play in the occurrence of machinery entanglement events. A retrospective case series of 41 entanglement injuries involving 35 farm-machinery types was assembled. Only a few limited tasks were ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Narasimhan G,Crowe TG,Peng Y,Hagel L,Dosman J,Pickett W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farm machinery is a major source of injury. The objective of this study is to characterize the incidence, injury characteristics, and outcomes of patients admitted with farm machinery injuries (FMIs) to an urban joint trauma system in a rural state. A retrospective 15-year review of the trauma registries of the two tr...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Jawa RS,Young DH,Stothert JC,Yetter D,Dumond R,Shostrom VK,Cemaj S,Rautiainen RH,Mercer DW

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABSTRACT The University of Iowa began training health care professionals to care for farmers' occupational health needs since 1974. In order to geographically expand this training to practicing health and safety professionals, the "Building Capacity: A National Resource of Agricultural Medicine Professionals" program ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Rudolphi JM,Donham KJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Forestry services is a hazardous industry with high job-related injury, illness, and fatality rates. The Northwest workforce is largely Spanish-speaking, Latino, and immigrant, working in poor conditions with insufficient attention paid to safety and health. Institutional racism fundamentally shapes the stru...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Wilmsen C,Castro AB,Bush D,Harrington MJ

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Missouri AgrAbility program links the Cooperative Extension Service at a land-grant university with a nonprofit disability organization to provide practical education and assistance that promotes rural independence. This project utilized Photovoice to describe how Missouri AgrAbility clients perceived how the prog...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Mott R,Keller K,Funkenbusch K

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides are used in most homes, businesses, and farms to control a variety of pests, including insects, weeds, fungi, rodents, and even microbial organisms. Inappropriate use of pesticides can lead to adverse effects to humans and the environment. This study provides updated information on the magnitude of adverse ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Langley RL,Mort SA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are approximately 4.2 million tractors on farms and ranches across the United States. The average age of tractors is over 25 years and some of the oldest models are the most popular. Older tractors are less safe than newer tractors, and many older tractors are operated by individuals with increased risk of being...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Murphy DJ,Myers J,McKenzie EA Jr,Cavaletto R,May J,Sorensen J

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain sustained injury surveillance data for youth on farms, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health developed the Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey (CAIS) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The first CAIS collected data for youth less than 20 years in 1998 through a reg...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Hendricks KJ,Layne LA,Goldcamp EM,Myers JR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This plenary talk at the eighth annual Midwest Rural Agricultural Safety and Health Forum, November 2009, focused on the value of having those who can benefit from, or who will use research findings (that is, partners), being involved throughout the research process. At the National Institute for Occupational Safety a...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Huy J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to review agricultural pesticide usage and trends and to identify hazardous pesticides for regulation, in terms of public health, in South Korea. The authors collected data on usage and trends of agricultural pesticides through agriculture-related databases. Criteria from the US Environmental Protectio...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Cha ES,Jeong M,Lee WJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Commercial fishing is still the most dangerous occupation in the United States. Efforts to have more stringent safety regulations in this industry beginning in the 1960s, culminated in the Commercial Fishing Vessel Safety Act of 1988. The purpose of this paper is to provide a short history of the development of safety...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Dzugan J

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Keokuk County Rural Health Study is a population-based study of an agricultural community in Iowa. The study includes in-depth evaluations of respiratory disease, injury, and other health outcomes in relation to environmental and occupational exposures. This article reports descriptive findings on pesticide use fr...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Reynolds SJ,Tadevosyan A,Fuortes L,Merchant JA,Stromquist AM,Burmeister LF,Taylor C,Kelly KM

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychosocial work environment for employed dairy and pig farmworkers in southern Sweden and to identify potential risk factors related to the psychosocial work environment for the development of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Thirty-seven workers on 10 dairy farms an...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Kolstrup C,Lundqvist P,Pinzke S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper summarizes an open panel discussion and breakout session by scientists and lay participants that focused on new approaches to identifying exposure to pesticides in humans during the New Paths: Health and Safety in Western Agriculture conference, November 11-13, 2008. Featured were reports on the available re...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Keifer M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in the United States. Within agriculture, livestock handling is particularly dangerous. While injury and fatality rates for bison handlers have not been reported, workers in many of the newly established tribal bison herds have limited safety training and a...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Duysen E,Irvine K,Yoder A,Topliff C,Kelling C,Rajaram S

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the combined burden of heat and air quality exposure in Washington State agriculture by (1) characterizing the spatiotemporal pattern of heat and PM2.5 exposures during wildfire seasons; (2) describing the potential impact of these combined exposures on agricultural worker populations; and (3) id...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Austin E,Kasner E,Seto E,Spector J

更新日期：2020-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:While documentation of pesticide exposure among agricultural workers is increasing, similar data describing exposure in migrant farmworkers is lacking. Exposure assessment in migrant farmworker populations is difficult since this population travels seasonally for employment in temporary work environments. The present ...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Shipp EM,Cooper SP,Donnelly KC,Nalbone JT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to characterize physicians' knowledge of zoonoses and perceived role in the process of zoonoses education among their farming patients in Northeast Ohio. In 2006, 92 practicing physicians (specialties included family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, and preventive medic...

journal_title：Journal of agromedicine

authors： Kersting AL,Medeiros LC,LeJeune JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00