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C.A. Lexau, D.B. Bishop and M.R. Kinde
NIOSH Education and Information Division
The
Minnesota Farming Health Survey was completed in 1993 as part
of Minnesota's Occupational Health Nurses in Agriculture (OHNAC)
project. Results of this population-based survey include descriptive
data on farm injuries occurring to all family members of farm
households who were surveyed in three regions of the state.
Adult
men working on the farm were those most frequently injured;
machinery, power tools and equipment were identified as the
cause of the injuries in about one-third of the cases. Farm
injuries resulted in lost farm work time in more than half
of the cases, and one in five of those injured lost a week
or more of the farm work time. Other results to be presented
will focus on anatomic location of injuries, injury severity,
and exposure characteristics.
Project
staff have disseminated these and other survey results in
many presentations, through a series of media releases, in
health teaching sheets, and through a non-technical survey
report. The potential public health benefit of these strategies,
and strategies under consideration, will be discussed.
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
research abstract was extracted from a portion of the proceedings
of "Agricultural Safety and Health: Detection, Prevention and
Intervention," a conference presented by the Ohio State University
and the Ohio Department of Health, sponsored by the Centers
for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational Safety
and Health.
The
authors noted above are from: All at the Minnesota Dept. of
Health, Minneapolis, MN.
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