Safety awareness among New York farmers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 71-81

  Hwang, Syni An ^a,e   Gomez, Marta I ^a   Stark, Alice D ^a   St John, Tonya Lowery ^b   Pantea, Cristian I ^a   Hallman, Eric M ^c   May, John J ^d   Scofield, Sharon M ^d  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Public Health   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d BASSETT HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^e Center for Environmental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural safety and health; Agricultural workers; Farmers; Prevention; Safety attitudes; Safety training

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; INTERVIEW; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0034114960     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0274(200007)38:1<71::AID-AJIM8>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Avory G, Coggon D. 1994. Determinants of safe behaviour in farmers when working with pesticides. Occup Med (Oxf) 44:236-238.
2. Bureau of the Census. 1993. 1992 Census of agriculture: Geographic area, Series IB on CD-ROM. U.S. Department of Commerce.
3. Centers for Disease Control. 1993. Public health focus: effectiveness of rollover protective structures for preventing injuries associated with agricultural tractors. MMWR 42:57-59.
4. Centers for Disease Control. 1997. Use of rollover protective structures-Iowa, Kentucky, New York, and Ohio, 1992-1997. MMWR 46:842-845.
5. Cordes DH, Foster D. 1988. Health hazards of farming. Am Fam Physician 38:233-245.
6. Dewar DM. 1996. Farm health and safety issues: do men and women differ in their perceptions? AAOHN J 44:391-401.
7. Ehlers JK, Connon C, Themann CL, Myers JR, Ballard T. 1993. Health and safety hazards associated with farming. AAOHN J 41: 414-421.
8. Harrell WA. 1995. Factors influencing involvement in farm accidents. Percept Mot Skills 81:592-594.
9. Landsittel D, Hard D, Murphy D, Kieman NE. 1998. The Pennsylvania Central Region Farm Safety Pilot Project: Part II-baseline data associations between approach-to-safety and hazard conditions. J. Agric. Safety and Health Special Issue:21-28.
10. Lewis MQ, Sprince NL, Burmeister LF, Whitten PS, Torner JC, Zwerling C. 1998. Work-related injuries among Iowa farm operators: an analysis of the Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Surveillance Project. Am J Ind Med 33:510-517.
11. Marlenga B. 1995. The health beliefs and skin cancer prevention practices of Wisconsin dairy farmers. Oncol Nurs Forum 22:681-686.
12. May JJ. 1990. Issues in agricultural health and safety. Am J Ind Med 18:121-131.
13. Murphy DJ, Kiernan NE, Chapman LJ. 1996. An occupational health and safety intervention research agenda for production agriculture: does safety education work? Am J Ind Med 29:392-396.
14. National Center for Health Statistics. 1997. 1994 National Health Interview Survey: CD-ROM Series 10, No. 9. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
15. National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). 1996. Preventing occupational hearing loss. Cincinatti, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 96-110. 91 p.
16. New York Agricultural Statistics Service. August, 1998. New York Agricultural Statistics 1997-1998. Albany, NY: New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets. 104 p.
17. New York Farm Bureau. 1998. Internet website at http://www.fb.com/ nyfb/agny.htm.
18. SAS Institute, Inc. 1996. The SAS System for Windows, Release 6.12. Cary, NC.
19. Thelin A. 1990. Epilogue: agricultural occupational and environmental health policy strategies for the future. Am J Ind Med 18:523-526.