Agricultural Tasks and Injuries among Kentucky Farm Children: Results of the Farm Family Health and Hazard Surveillance Project

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1203-1212

  Browning, Steven R ^a   Westneat, Susan C ^a   Donnelly, Carol ^a   Reed, Deborah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Children; Epidemiology; Injury

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BEEF CATTLE; CATTLE FARMING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS; KENTUCKY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TOBACCO; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0345867168     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SMJ.0000082014.94642.06     Document Type: Article

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