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Publikováno v:
Annual Review of Public Health. 25:225-245
▪ Abstract Agricultural work is the most prevalent type of employment in the world. In the United States only a few are engaged in creating food and fiber for many. Agriculture includes farming, ranching, fishing, and forestry, and together they ca
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Journal of Agromedicine. 5:91-98
We describe a unique example of a community participation program to prevent agricultural injury and illness on family farms in two south-central Kentucky counties. Funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, this three-year program builds on existing so
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 33:341-353
This population-based study reports the cumulative incidence of agricultural injuries during a 1-year period in a sample of 998 farmers aged 55 years and older living in Kentucky. A total of 98 farm-related injuries were reported among 88 older farme
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Family & Community Health. 19:78-89
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Journal of Agromedicine. 3:51-59
We present three examples of familial clustering of green tobacco sickness, taken from reports received by the Kentucky Regional Poison Center from 1991 through 1994. Each cluster contains three to five members of an immediate or extended family who
Publikováno v:
Statistics in Medicine. 15:747-757
Nicotine poisonings in tobacco farm workers (Green Tobacco Sickness, GTS) reported to the Kentucky Regional Poison Center during 1991 were assessed for spatial, temporal and space-time clustering. Among 62 index cases, 10 had worked with others who a
Publikováno v:
Journal of agromedicine. 14(3)
The Sustainable Farm Families project (http://www.sustainablefarmfamilies.org.au/) was a 3-year demonstration and education project designed to influence farmer behavior with respect to family health and well-being among cropping and grazing farmers
Publikováno v:
Journal of agricultural safety and health. 14(4)
Several studies have documented higher rates of suicide among farmers in comparison to other occupational groups, both in the U.S. and internationally. The purpose of this study is to describe the epidemiology of farmer suicides in three southeastern
Autor:
Robert H. McKnight, Henry A. Spiller
Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) is cultivated in more than 100 countries, and in 2004, some 5.73 million metric tons dry weight of tobacco were grown worldwide. The top five tobacco producers forecast for 2004 are China (2.01 million metric tons; 35.1%),
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::956d6cdf53f805dfc908d2eb2759fa10
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1497768/
https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1497768/
Publikováno v:
Journal of Engineering Education. 85:339-341
A research center in the College of Medicine assisted the Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department in the assessment of occupational health and safety instruction in the undergraduate agricultural engineering curriculum. An interdisciplinar