Empowering Farm Women to Reduce Hazards to Family Health and Safety on the Farm

Autor:	Msn M. Susan Jones Rn, Kathryn J. Luchok, ScD Robert H. McKnight Mph
Rok vydání:	1998
Předmět:	Family health Engineering Health professionals business.industry Community participation Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Change agent Agriculture Primary health General partnership Environmental health Socioeconomics business Community development
Zdroj:	Journal of Agromedicine. 5:91-98
ISSN:	1545-0813 1059-924X
Popis:	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 social networks among farm women and on the traditional role of women as the primary health officers of their families. Twelve influential farm women were recruited as the core group of the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health and Safety in February 1993. Together with technical assistance from two universities, they built a coalition of local farm families, health professionals, businesses, and volunteer agencies. Based on the findings of county-wide surveys of farm women, the Partnership members planned and implemented farm safety training programs, including presentations for over 5,000 school students and at over 100 community events. Another innovative educational tool developed by the women was “photonovels” featuring local people in agricu...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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